The Best And Worst Movie Hairdos
Can you imagine Princess Leia without her hair bun headphone covers? What if she had been introduced with some simple pig tails or just plain loose hair? Oh the travesty! We’d be living in a very different world right now (not to mention that the fantasies of 12-year-old boys would be somewhat less exciting). Hair is just as important as any other element when it comes to creating a movie character, plus it makes dressing up for costume parties and Halloween a lot more fun.
It’s a little hard to judge hairdos though. Many times you have a character like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber or Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element who are meant to have ridiculous hairstyles. No sin there. But then there are times when filmmakers just get it completely wrong, unintentionally. I think this happened a lot in the ’80s (bigger was not better). But anyway, I’ve put together a list of the best and worst hair in movies. Check it out:
The Best
Brad Pitt in Fight Club
Bridgette Bardot in And God Created Woman
Carrie Fisher in Star Wars
Louise Brooks in Diary of a Lost Girl
James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause
Alicia Silverstone in Clueless
John Travolta in Grease
Kirsten Dunst in Interview With A Vampire
Noomi Rapace in The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
Dominique Swain in Lolita
Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette
Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
Sharon Stone in Casino
Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction
The Worst
Brad Pitt in Johnny Suede
Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element
Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner
David Bowie in Labyrinth
Emma Stone in The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Kathy Najimy, Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus
Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber
Jodie Foster in The Accused
John Travolta in Battlefield Earth
Kristen Stewart in Eclipse
Samuel L. Jackson in Jumper
Taylor Lautner in Twilight
Uma Thurman in Batman and Robin
Samuel L. Jackson in Unbreakable
Will Ferrell in Zoolander
I have to disagree with a lot of your worst list. The hair was definitely a plus in terms of characterization for some of these. I’ll agree on Daryl Hannah, Jodie Foster, and Taylor Lautner though. Those are pretty much uselessly terrible.
Also, isn’t the girl Kristen Stewart plays in the Twilight movies supposed to be plain anyway? I don’t get the issue there.
The Kristen Stewart thing was actually pretty bad. She had been in The Runaways and cut off all her hair, so she was wearing a horrible wig for Eclipse. It was actually a big deal.
Brigitte Bardot, please.
Taylor Lautner’s head doesn’t seem connected to his body.
I respectfully disagree with your assessment of Jareth’s hair. Everything about Jareth is the best.
Ponark is right, Lautner’s head is impossibly far from his chest. His neck would have to be even more freakishly long than the kid who played Lionel on United States of Tara
Mary from “everybody loves Mary”
Samuel L looks like Maurice Moss from IT Crowd!
@Laura Frances, oh snap! Is it bad that I couldn’t even tell?
Is it weird that my biggest beef with Batman & Robin is Poison Ivy’s atrocious hair?
I am in wholehearted agreement with Sara. There is not, nor has there ever been, anything wrong with the Goblin King.