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Could Natasha be blonde?


I ask because I just read all the reviews left by IMDb users for this adaptation... and one user argued that it was absolutely impossible for Natasha to have the character she has in Tolstoy's masterpiece were she blonde (said user incidentally added that Sonya was a perfect exemple of what a blonde heroine should be... how come? She is a brunette too, no?).

I have my doubts, a bit, as to the relation between hair colour and character... but I'm willing to discuss it here...



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The correlation between hair color and personality (in Natasha, at least) is BS. Some characters' physical traits are important in Tolstoy's novel - such as Pierre's glasses and weight - but the heroine's hair is wholly irrelevant. I can think of other books in which the characters' hair colors matter (such as Anne Shirley from "Anne of Green Gables" and Lucie Manette in "A Tale of Two Cities"), but I'd argue that Tolstoy could've made Natasha a blonde and it wouldn't have made a great difference in how her character is supposed to be perceived by the reader.

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