Nicole Kidman - Stepford Wives
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Topic: Nicole Kidman - Stepford Wives
Posted By: Rod
Subject: Nicole Kidman - Stepford Wives
Date Posted: May 03 2004 at 1:50am
I saw a trailer for "Stepford Wives" tonight. In the trailer, Nicole Kidman has very short brown hair. While not in the trailer, a still and the poster has Ms. Kidman with long blond curls. I assume she has that look after she's a "Stepford Wife." I haven't seen the film, but it appears that the director is saying short hair is unsexy, and long hair is sexy. Boo!!!!
First aside: The short hairstyle she sports in the trailer is really unstylish and looks terrible on her.
Second aside: Directors have been giving her short wigs for awhile now. See "Dogville" and "Birth." The wig in "Birth" looks really good on her.
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Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: May 03 2004 at 7:23am
I think they did it for the movie. Matter of fact the trailer I saw made the ones before the new wife they all looked under the weather. So it was just part of the movie to do that. I wouldn't call they wanted to make the statement that all short hair is bad.
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Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 11:00pm
I saw the preview and the poster, but in the trailer there were no shots of her with curly hair. Hmmm.
It seems in the movie it turns out that all the wives there are robots. Does anybody else think so?
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Posted By: Grace912
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 1:20am
Granted, I'm not terribly familiar with the "Stepford Wives" story, but I think that the wives are turned into robots of some sort.
As for the hair, I don't think that it's necessarily an assertion of good vs. bad in terms of long and short. More simply, I think that it's a matter of what men want vs. what women prefer for themselves. Nicole's character might be more herself in short dark hair, but when she's transformed, she has long blond hair like her husband prefers (just like so many other husbands in Stepford, which I think makes the men look just as strangely homogenous as the women, seeing as they all have such similar preferences). And she has no say in the matter, seeing as she has been made submissive as well. Again, this is all based on my rather limited understanding.
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Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 7:42am
Grace 912 got it. It looks that way in what I have seen.
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Few men are killed by the bayonet;many are scared by it.Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts.General George Patton Jr.,War As I Knew It,1947.
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Posted By: Rod
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 6:01pm
The film is a remake. In the original, they were indeed robots.
In the trailer, Nicole Kidman's character is a career woman who makes her husband feel inferior because she's better than him at everything. Apparently, a lot of the Stepford Wives were that before they were replaced.
The book was published in 1972 at a time when the feminist movement was taking women out of the house. I don't know if the book was a stab at the feminist movement and male reaction to it or a satire of it. But it was very 1972. In 2004, are men really looking for women who don't think, are beautiful, and do housework? Perhaps this is still a male fantasy, but it doesn't seem as poignent. In 1972, there was a battle of the sexes going on. Now, there isn't.
Since Ms. Kidman doesn't have very short dark hair, the director and hairdresser made a consicous choice. Dark, short hair would signify the career woman who doesn't care to look attractive or about what her husband wants. She's an insenstive jerk before. But long blond hair is the sexy ideal.
I'm not arguing her initial haircut isn't butch and unstylish. It is. I just don't think they needed to go with short dark hair to emphasize that. When the movie comes out, we'll see.
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Posted By: Starlette
Date Posted: May 15 2004 at 2:17am
I think the hairstyles might also be a way of demonstrating the contrast between the real character of Joanna Eberhart and her robotic Stepford Wife persona. Whereabouts, before she had short hair, as a Stepford Wife, her hair is very long. As Joanna, her hair was brunette, as a Stepford Wife, her hair becomes a golden blonde. The personality modification is harder to demonstrate onscreen, while a physical alteration expresses much more efficiently the change in Joanna. Also, after Joanna becomes a “Wife”, one can notice the visible change in her makeup (dramatic eyes and red lipstick) and her clothing (pearls and silky evening gowns).
I did notice that some of the Stepford women retain short hair. Granted, their hair length is longer than Joanna's brunette tresses, but shorter still compared to the Stepford Joanna's new hair.
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