QuoteReplyTopic: Best haircut scene Posted: July 16 2000 at 11:39pm
Just wondering. What do you think is the best haircuting scene in a mainstream movie. One reader suggested "The Con" about a week ago. It was a good before/after shot, but very little of the transformation was shown. The same could be said about Geena Davis' makeover in "The Lond Kiss goodnight." Tell me what you think.
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I don't know if it was the most memorable, but it was one of the first I remember: Helen Slater hacking off her hair in "The Legend of Billie Jean." They played it up bigtime in the movie jackets sent to the media members who were critiquing the film. Broke my heart, though, to see her lovely locks wasted for a movie.
I found the best haircut ever shown in a movie the one in "Naked Tango". The actress Mathilda May, in the US probably only known from her role in the sci-fi lifeforce, gets a forced makeover from long to the classic Louise Brooks Bob. The actual cutting scene is only short but the look is just great
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Great question you've thrown out there. Demi Moore in G.I. Jane is a good one, although it was too dimly lit. More actual cutting is shown than in most movie haircuts, and it was definitely not a wig! I wonder how the Bai Ling haircut in last year's "Anna and the King" rates. I've not seen the movie, but it recently came out in the video stores. In the movie, the King of Siam orders that her head be shaved because she had an affair with somebody. She had hip-length, beautiful hair. I'm not sure how much of the cutting is shown, but she is shaved bald.
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The best haircut scene is of Lori Singer in the movie F.T.W (Also know as "The Last Ride").
She's a bank robber trying to be not recognized by the law. So, she cuts her own hair and paint it from a very long blond (Daryl Hannah lookalike) to a short brown hair.
If you didn't see it yet, you should do it.
Is too bad she didn't keep her hair short and brown, she was very beautiful with that look.
Is also too bad that she decided to not make any more movie. I don't know exactly the reason.
I also like the scenes of haircut with Natalie Wood in "Splendor in the Grass" e Audrey Hepburn in "Roman Holiday".
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This thread makes no sense...there is no such thing as a good hair cutting scene. I don't understand the concept. How about best hair growing or showing scene instead? Chris
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How would be a hair-growing scene? The movie would last for years and would be so monotone.
That's the attractive of haircuting scenes: a drastic change in only a few seconds.
I like the drastic changes from short to long too, though they can be only fake (with wigs, etc.).
Fake haircuts can also give good scenes. I like the one I have mencioned in a previous message with Janine Turner at The Circle of Deceits, though she was cutting a wig.
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How to define "Best haircut scene" in a movie: I think the criteria here has to be "drastic". After all, not many films have the time to show their stars entering the salon for a nice wash, condition, cut, blow dry etc. So my vote goes for the opening credits of Full Metal Jacket (1987) and the 1980 concentration camp TV movie Playing For Time, where Vanessa Redgrave has her hair brutally scissored in the name of art. Not pretty to watch, but very dramatic.
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I agree with the post that a "best" haircut scene has to be drastic, and I just remembered another good one, in a movie called "Deep In The Heart." In the movie, an actress with waist-length blonde hair (Karen something) goes into a salon and gets it all cut off. The entire initial cut of the ponytail at the nape is shown, lasting about half a minute. The character was a schoolteacher who had been sexually assaulted while on a date. Depressed and angry, she seeks counseling from a priest, and then the next scene is at the hairdresser's. Before the cut, while her hair is wet, the hairdresser asks her, "Are you sure?" She answers, whispering yet determined, "I'm sure." The camera then focuses on the cutting. After the ponytail is cut, the hairdresser says, "Now, how short did you want it?" The rest of the haircut is not shown, but the very next scene is the actress entering school the next day with a very short, layered cut. The movie was produced in the mid-80's by a Canadian company, I think, although set in Texas (hence the title "Deep in the Heart"). Several years ago it was available in video stores, but it doesn't seem as available now. Only once have I noticed it listed on TV. Very good scene.
I know the movie you mean. It was called "Handgun" (or maybe that was just the UK title). The actress was Karen Young and the film was made in 1982 and released on EMI. Didn't do too well in the US due to its anti-gun message. Great scene which I'd forgotten, thanx for reminding me.
Whaddya mean? Unless you're referring to the bit in "American Werewolf in London" where hair sprouts out of the guys face at an alarming rate, or mayble a similar scene in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video - otherwise, no comprendo.
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