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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | One of my pet peeves is where in a film or TV show that is set in a time other than the present, there is little thought to the details of the appearance of the characters. In M*A*S*H, the actors sport 1970's hairstyles (advancing to the 1980s on the TV series). Rarely did anyone have proper haircuts or tennis shoes on Happy Days. Most westerns (film and TV) have the characters wearing clothes with "hidden" zippers, and, again, hairstyles contemporary with the time of making the film or TV episode. In The Natural, much work goes into the styling of the sets: correct gum packages which look new rather than decades old, etc., but many of the players still wear out of period longer hair (on the guys). I suppose the most difficult of this is getting a period-correct haircut on a highly-paid actor. Each wants to look like they look, not like they would have looked in the old west, or the early or mid 20th century.
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| | Posted: | | | | For Happy Days, it was mostly comedy and I think that the mix of styles gave it a slight surreal feel to it. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nothing is worse than porn for period pieces. I'm sure there were many medieval wenchs with fake boobs, tattoos and piercings.  They could at least try to cast them a bit better.  |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Not to mention all those films made years ago but set "now". How dare they get the hair/fashion/etc... so wrong!  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote:
Nothing is worse than porn for period pieces. I'm sure there were many medieval wenchs with fake boobs, tattoos and piercings.
They could at least try to cast them a bit better. The wimmin on the HBO "Rome" series all had 21st century Brazilian landing strips! | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: October 2, 2008 | | Posts: 110 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
Not to mention all those films made years ago but set "now". How dare they get the hair/fashion/etc... so wrong! Their time machine was a little wonky. It wouldn't let them out to actually see for themselves they had to use the system monitors. That explains why colors were off and as for the hair fashions since the video was FUBARed they had to make guesses or use whatever the current look was. Anything they couldn't identify was either ignored or made up.  | | | CaptKiirk42
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| | Posted: | | | | The opening of Shane (Alan Ladd 1954 set in the mid 1800's) has a Truck barreling down the highway in the distance creating a huge trail of Dust behind it..  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Posted: | | | | In Westerns, women of adult age often wear their hair down, which is something I believe the women rarely did in the 19th Century. I particularly remember Jill Townsend, playing Dulcie in Cimmaron Stip, who had a very 1960's hair style -- long blonde tresses around her shoulders with bangs. I don't remember seeing anyone over the age of 10 looking like that in photographs from the times. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
The opening of Shane (Alan Ladd 1954 set in the mid 1800's) has a Truck barreling down the highway in the distance creating a huge trail of Dust behind it.. And I remember seeing jet contrails in the sky in an episode of Wagon Train. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| | Posted: | | | | Sets and backgrounds are hard. Trying to get the powerlines and telephone poles out of outdoor shots in Biblical epics has often been a problem. But when King of Kings has a beggar wearing a wristwatch... what a shame. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: March 8, 2009 | | Posts: 864 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm always distracted by period films where the leads all have perfectly straight, even, sparkling white teeth (at the moment, I'm looking at you 10,000 B.C.).  |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,878 |
| | Posted: | | | | Any Civil War piece with Confederate soldiers in pristine matching uniforms and looking well-fed. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| | Posted: | | | | Usually they don't bug me that much. I can overlook a lot when watching most movies. |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Danae Cassandra: Quote:
Any Civil War piece with Confederate soldiers in pristine matching uniforms and looking well-fed. Not necessarily incorrect, Danae. Confederate troops were supplied by their individual states. Some states, even as late as 1965, had plenty of supplies, both materiel and food. One of the problems the South faced was that the States tended to keep supples for themselves and not help equip other states -- so South Carolina, for example, was well fed and clothed throughout the war while other states' troups were not. Confederate troops weren't all ragtag, despite the way modern re-enactors (who claim to be living historians) may dress. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,044 |
| | Posted: | | | | @kdh1949, I belive you ment 1865 not 1965. But you are quite correct in your statment.  Rory | | | DVD Profiler for iOS as of 3/5/2013
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