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just finished watching LOTR, and it got me thinking. initially, i got into the hair growth thing so i could have hair just like aragorns (viggo mortensen) but after 6 months i realised it just wasn't gunna happen. my hair's too thick.
but that's sorta changed now. after 10 months, my hair has straightened out greatly and i was just curious, what kind of cut would you say aragorn has in the movie? if i had shitty, unkempt shoudler length hair, and i was to go into a hairdressers with the intent of lookin like aragorn on the way out, what would i say to them? short of bringin a picture, what kind of cut should i ask for?
just curious. i'm still aiming for hair like his, i just wanna know all the details :D
Is it really a cut that would mimic the wig, I mean hair of Aragorn's?
Maybe just the length and some styling would achive the look.
I'd just bring in a picture - it's worth a thousand words.
Either that or I'd stop bathing, shaving, start sleeping in the woods
and maybe hunt a few orcs on the side. Not only will you have hair
like Aragorn's, you'd smell like him too :-) just kidding... :-)
his hair looked real to me!!! But then, all their hair looked real.
They did too good a job! I'm so confused...
All the long hair was quite distracting, especially the elves!
I agree completely! But I figured everyone was in wigs-too perfect. But I think Viggo's hair was real...I'm looking at a pic on my wall right now actually ^_^ (I love him in case no one could guess).
~Jenn
Great flick with 100% long hair!
Short of bringing a picture? Why NOT bring a picture? That's what I hear from hair stylists all my life-- "I could do it the way you wanted it if you could show me a picture".
Just don't bring one where he's just been in battle and is covered with sweat and mud!
Although none of the video accompanying the first movie hints at it, (or anything I've read), there was a very short clip of him practicing his horse riding on the set of The Two Towers on the "special features" DVD from The Two Towers that confirms that his hair in the movie is a wig. It's pretty short in the clip showing him riding the horse.
His hair was actually real whilst they were filming for two years in New Zealand. It's only after they finished he cut it off and has since filmed special feature vignettes. http://www.theargonath.cc/cast/mortensen/mortensen.html shows some of his growth actually. You have to click the buttons to see fullsize pictures.
I'm still not convinced. The story he himself tells in the DVD, he was sitting at home and got a call to come immediately to New Zealand to take the place of someone who was already cast as Aragorn but wasn't working out after filming had already started. So for his long hair to have been real during the filming of the movies, he would have had long hair before he went over there?
Most actors I've seen with their own long hair in a movie, they spend upwards of a year or more letting it grow out prior to filming. Otherwise they usually keep it short because it makes them more marketable for casting purposes.
Extensions maybe? I'd believe that, and then he let his own hair grow out over the time he was there. He could have gotten 12" that way at a half inch a month over two years.
Yeah but there's no chronology to any of those pictures. It's impossible to even tell if it's his own hair in any of those shots; they could have been taken during the filming. Extensions like the ones used in movies are not something you take off at night after you're done with work.
Yeah - here's a picture you could use. I believe its extensions though.
Honestly, you'd be doing the hairdresser a HUGE favor by bringing in a picture. That fact can't be emphasized ENOUGH. Here's copy of the picture of Edward Furlong I always brought with me, so stylist had a visual aid of what kind of look I as going for whenever I'd visit the salon:
I had a collector card-size of this same picture, at the time. It's hard to believe my hair was ever that short though.
hehehe
Yeah, Ed Furlong had one cool hair style in the movie (for a short-hair).
Great film aswell(T2)...pitty about T3 (IMO!).
LOL, that's pretty much what my hair looks like, except it's lighter brown. Cherish your thickness, man.
I just took a look at those pictures and in my opinion...
it just looks like hair that has been left alone to grow out
naturally.
If you go to a stylist--even with pictures...the only thing
that stylist can do is to somehow cut it.
If you hair is not long enough yet...the only thing THAT will
accomplish is: SHORTer hair!
When your hair has reached (or slightly surpassed) the length seen in those photos...
then THAT's a different story.
Cutting = shorter hair...
so be SURE your hair is LONG ENOUGH to work with!
Good Luck!
*n/t*
cool! thanks for all the advice guys, and thanks for the picture, that'll help me heaps in my long-hair quest :D
