The Haircut Who Wasn't There

March 28, 2006 10:23 AM

Screenshots of the haircuts from the Coen Brothers film The Man Who Wasn't There?

So I need to get my hair cut, and I'm thinking of getting a old-fashioned cut; my memory returns to a sequence early in The Man Who Wasn't There where Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) narrates over a bunch of shots of his standard cuts: The Executive, The Timberline, The Duck Butt, etc. Are there screenshots of these cuts anywhere? For bonus points, the Wikipedia says that a poster of old-timey haircuts actually inspired the film itself - does anyone know of a photo of the poster?

posted by symbebekos to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (6 answers total)

According to this, the DVD's bonus materials include:

The other selections, "The Timberline," "The Duck Butt," "The Alpine Ropetoss," and "Doris's Salad" are two- to three-second shots, mainly of late-'40s haircut style.

There's also a making-of featurette which talks about the poster, so it may have a picture of the poster also.
posted by kirkaracha at 11:27 AM on March 28, 2006

Those extra "selections" are just very short shots cut out of the final film; and Doris' Salad is, well, a salad. (I guess you could call it a salad--it looks like an eighth of a head of lettuce with some very unappealing dressing on; at any rate it's got nothing to do with hair.)

The poster is not shown in the "making of" featurette.
posted by Tuwa at 1:16 PM on March 28, 2006

FWIW, my dad's old barbershop had a poster of late-40s mens styles, although labeled with numbers and not names... get thee to a few old-fashioned barber shops (where they still shave with a straight razor) and see if they have that poster on the wall.
posted by muddgirl at 5:51 PM on March 28, 2006

Have you checked the Barbershop scene in Hudsucker Proxy?
posted by muddgirl at 5:53 PM on March 28, 2006

Here you go for now (the last three were deleted from the film but are in the extras):
http://homepage.mac.com/oldshantytown/PhotoAlbum2.html

You'd probably do better to find one of those barbershop posters, as mentioned above.... I think I remember one of my friends having one at his place; if so, I'll post back with a shot of it.
posted by Tuwa at 8:48 PM on March 29, 2006

I was wrong; it wasn't a poster; it was a Honda ad clipped from a 1997 Newsweek. At any rate, here it is (1500x2013 image, 72 dpi, 980kb) (mac.com can't seem to manage making a thumnail for it for some reason, though it's in the public album): http://homepage.mac.com/oldshantytown/.Pictures/haircuts.jpg
posted by Tuwa at 10:26 AM on April 5, 2006