new thread
I saw Star Wars again today, and besides enjoying the movie, I paid special attention to two things: Obi Wan Kenobi's braid, and Qui-Gon's pony tail. Well, I was right. Obi Wan has his braid on the right side of his head for the entire movie except for one scene, after the race has finished and they are all headed back to the ship. There is one small clip where is braid is on the left side.
Qui-Gon's pony tail seems to be held with a simple band that is wrapped about 10 times around the hair. Wrapping ten times forms a sheath about 2 or 3 inches long around the pony tail. I have tried this style before, and the most common problem I have with it is that I get extraneous hairs caught in the holder. Getting it even can also be tricky. I generally take each thumb and starting from each ear, scrape it along my scalp up to the top where they meet. I hold the hair thus grabbed up so I can brush out the remaining hair down flat. Then I brush the hair I'm holding up, pinch together and add a ponytail holder.
A tip I saw on ETLHS may help here. Instead of using just a band, use a band and two bobby pins. The first bobby pin, attached to the holder, goes through the hair to be affixed. Wrap the band as many times as it takes to make it tight, then take the other bobby pin and affix. This avoids the problem of drawing the entire length of hair through the holder.
Victor,
Could they have possibly reversed the print? Either accidentally, or for some aesthetic reason. You'd think that
McGregor would have been very concious of where it was supposed
to be, and not let them put it on the wrong side. Another possibility
is that this scene was shot many months before or after the other
ones and they just forgot where it was supposed to be. Good eye!
Either of those are possibilities. Another possibility is that it was done on purpose. Actors have been known to switch watches to the other hand, etc., just for run.
Speaking of reversing the film, one of the most famous movie scenes of all time was done this way. It is the scene in ET where Elliot flies with ET in his bicycle in front of the full moon. I recognized right away that it was reversed, because all the craters were backwards. At least they used a real moon . I read months later that they reversed that particular clip for aesthetic reasons, believing it was more pleasing to see the bicycles going from left to right than from right to left. In searching for a picture, all I could find was one with the moon oriented correctly. Either they corrected this for the poster, or I was hallucinating in 1982. Reading through the goofs section of the Internet Movie Image Database (imdb.com), they mention the moon moving from one end of the sky to the other in a few minutes, but no mention is made of the moon being backward.
I just saw Wild, Wild West, and believe it or not, this same exact scene is reproduced there.
I knew I had seen a movie that had made the goof of having a full
moon the night before/after an eclipse of the sun, but couldn't
put my finger on it until I saw this website:
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/estate/vs76/persac.htm
I will quote from the site:
"On the flight out to Venezuela to see the total eclipse, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau joined us in a film called Out at Sea, a story
of two old men going on a cruise ship to view a total eclipse of the Sun. Despite the fact that the film showed a Full Moon on the night
before the eclipse and the night of the eclipse (!), it was an enjoyable comedy..."