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Painfully Obvious Wig, From the Start

posted 9 years ago by mf61581
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Just started watching this movie 5 minutes ago and I'm so distracted by the awful wig on the younger sister. Why ... Just why? If her hair wasn't long enough or the right color, dye it, give her short hair, or at least do a better job on a realistic-seeming wig than a bored, incompetent costume shop employee would have done.

You can tell by the fact that the hairline is too long in front, the hair is too thick-looking, and you can't see scalp anywhere. Ugh.

[–] Morbius_Fitzgerald 9 years ago

That is actually a mistake in costuming that they get rid of in the sequels. However, I do know what they were going for with designing the wig like that; she didn't care about her appearance so she didn't brush it and so it became all messed up like that. I think the reason why is because they couldn't do that for the film or maybe Emily Perkins didn't want to do that but still, you are right about that.

[–] retrostyleNINJA 8 years ago

Did she still need the wig in the sequel?

[–] gabby3349774 9 years ago

Emily shaved her hair off so her hair was really short. I wonder how different it would of been with her real hair.

[–] serenacelestine 9 years ago

The actress (Emily Perkins) had very short hair at the time of filming. It was a pretty awful wig... but I found that it started to look a bit more natural by the end of the film.

[–] am-23762 7 years ago

I agree. It it look better later on, getting towards the part where she went to the school and encountered Jason, and after that. In the commentary, Fawcett acknowledges this too, that he got her wig to look better by that point.

[–] freeist 8 years ago

Somehow I got through the whole film without it bothering me.

Believe me, the makers of the film didn't want her to have the wig either. The only thing they didn't her to have more than a wig was a buzz cut.

It just so happened that's just the style Emily Perkins showed up for the shoot with. They got the wig because in between the last audition and the call backs, Emily Perkins got a buzz cut. (She was trying a new style, and likely a new lifestyle, and she didn't know if they would ever call her for the role.)

A buzz-cut would have been wrong for Brigitte. Even a month-old buzz cut.

[–] benGsboat 7 years ago

Seems strange to do that, since most actors don't know for sure if they'll get a callback. You'd think she would have waited until she got word about the part before doing something like that.

Still, the wig didn't bother me either. After the first couple of scenes, I wasn't focused on her hair at all.

[–] freeist 7 years ago

Maybe it was the fact that production was delayed so many times. Given the controversy the movie had, and the instability of its funding, she probably thought the movie would never get going. Besides, Perkins probably asked herself who shoots a film outside in the dead of a Canadian winter?

That brings up another topic: I think there's a reason why they shot during winter on a 24 hour shooting schedule: Fawcett wanted to finish it before his funding got pulled again.

I guess I just wasn't looking for a wig. I didn't see it until I saw the movie the second time.

Considering the conditions under which it was shot, and the budget, this film is a small miracle.

[–] benGsboat 7 years ago

Perhaps.

Still, if it were me, I would have waited until I knew that someone else got the part...or that the plug had been pulled once and for all.

I watched the movie again last night (probably the third or fourth time), and then the making of. Great interviews with most of the cast and crew. Too bad Katharine Isabelle didn't appear. Would have been nice to hear her memories of the production.

Emily Perkins looks fantastic, btw

[–] PreachCaleb 7 years ago

or that the plug had been pulled once and for all.

Sometimes that's not always possible to know. Movies can be in developmental hell for years. Heck, some for decades.

Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.