Brown Hair?
I think Christopher Reeve's hair is closer to the brown side, I think. But why let so much of it show when in previous films its jet black? Odd.
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You'll believe a man can fly..... But you find it odd when an actor's hair is a slightly different colour?
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You may find this odd but, No, I dont believe a man can fly. This is a movie in which he is suspended on wires and posing on projection screens.
Do I find the hair color change odd? Yes, Unreasonable? No. I just wanted to know why. Was the intent to have a visible change when Superman turned bad? Did Richard Lester(SP?) just want to set his Superman apart from Richard Donner's Superman? Or was it just completely arbitrary and for no real reason at all.
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I have never read an explanation for Reeve's much browner hair in Superman III. However, it seems like it had to be intentional because he is wearing a wig as both Clark and Superman throughout the film. It isn't simply a case of the dyeing process not working as well. If I had to guess, I would suspect that it had something to do with the Evil Superman look. Perhaps the makeup and hair people, along with the Producers, Director, etc., felt that the discheveled Evil Superman's brownish hair would contrast too greatly from Superman's normal black hair, thus making it look fake (or tipping people off that wigs were being worn). That's all I can figure. Each of Reeve's wigs is pretty well disguised if not for the lighter color, which obviously grabbed people's attention.
shareIm not even sure I thought it was a wig until now. Its just so odd because its so obvious. Like it was styled to have brown streaks. I remember "Dark Superman" hair being more black and grey than brown.
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I never knew anything about wigs being worn until I did some research on the Internet. Shockingly to me, Reeve was wearing a wig as both Clark and Superman in the majority of the footage shot for each film. Those lighter streaks in the wigs for III must've been intentional, but who knows why.
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Wigs are worn a lot in films for various reasons. Reeve wasn't bald or balding, but I think his natural hair line sat farther back than needed. Chris Evans wears a wig for Captain America, in Avengers anyway. And in one scene in Green Lantern you can tell Ryan Reynolds is wearing a wig too.
Does the Superman III dvd have commentary? Info like that may not be on it, but it is worth a look, for me anyway.
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I think, as far as the Superman movies go, wigs were used for Reeve to help speed up filming since his hair was different for Clark and Superman. Continuity-wise, it would be much easier to use wigs that could easily be styled exactly the same instead of dealing with his real hair. With that said, the wigs used in the first two films in particular are very difficult to detect. Stuart Freeborn, who just passed away, deserves a lot of credit for that.
shareYeah, those wigs looked flawless. I think at the end part 2 you can see a drastic hair change, probably because they where filmed a year apart.
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He used a wig in Superman 1 & 2? I thought they dyed his hair? In his training footage you can see his hair was already dyed dark black there and same length as he had in Superman 1.
shareIf you watch some Reeve films from the 90s, pre accident, his hairline is intact and didn't recede until long after his accident.
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I never knew he wore wigs in any of the films. That is very weird to me. I guess it was easier for them instead of styling his hair for his Clark & Superman parts?
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You may find this odd but, No, I dont believe a man can fly. This is a movie in which he is suspended on wires and posing on projection screens.
It was a riff on the very, very famous tagline of the Superman franchise.
As you well know.
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So you where being sarcastic? Well, then I apologize.
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I was going to start a thread about this. Reeve really looked different here. The brown hair always threw me off. He also seemed to be wearing a heavy makeup on his eyes at times. He just looks different from the first 2 movies. Not that much time had passed.
shareI agree Little Caesar. It was maybe a little over two years between the final filming of Superman II in early 1980 and the beginning of Superman III filming in 1982, so it wasn't that long, but he did look different. Reeve definitely did some serious work in the gym in that span because he looks his strongest in III. The makeup does seem heavier in the third film. Perhaps that was due to the inclusion of Evil Superman, whose look obviously required a completely different makeup approach. It is possible that they were attempting to do more to offset the good and evil.
The hair issue is really strange though. It is clearly much more brown and has some lighter streaks along the sides. Sort of the opposite of what I said about the makeup, I wonder if it wasn't an intentional decision to make Superman/Clark's hair a bit lighter so that it didn't look wildly different from Evil Supe's dirty, unkempt look. Wigs were worn by Reeve in each of the three roles, and I just wonder if the makeup people/producers worried that the hair would be detected as fake if they kept Supe/Kent's hair very dark while making Evil Supe's hair lighter. That is just my speculation.
The recommencement of Director Richard Lester's "Superman II" footage began filming on location in Niagra Falls first from Septemeber 1979 concluding by early March 1980.
"Superman III" began filming principal photography from August 1982 concluding by November 1982.
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In Superman 3 its dark hair for Clark and a lighter dark with brown highlights for the evil Superman because it's ukempt.. I normally have lighter brown hair but when it's slicked back with hair gel it's appears much darker.. This is my own reason but could be a plausible explanation.
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