Comments on: Red Hair Dye: The Story Of A Murderer http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:16:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: shelle http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-448935 shelle Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:04:30 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-448935 ]]> By: Erin (redhead speakin up in here) http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-410878 Erin (redhead speakin up in here) Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:21:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-410878 I dont know about you guys but i loved this movie, i fell in love with when i saw it. Everything about it was soo deep and alluring. i doubt the colour of their hair matters, one of my old friends had almost the same colour and it was natural. i love that colour of red, its so amazing. My hair is a strawberry blondish kind of hue, with everyother colour mixed in like brown, blonde, extremely light blonde, orange, brownish purple. its just all over the place... and natural.. yes... I dont know about you guys but i loved this movie, i fell in love with when i saw it. Everything about it was soo deep and alluring. i doubt the colour of their hair matters, one of my old friends had almost the same colour and it was natural. i love that colour of red, its so amazing. My hair is a strawberry blondish kind of hue, with everyother colour mixed in like brown, blonde, extremely light blonde, orange, brownish purple. its just all over the place… and natural.. yes…

]]> By: V http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243801 V Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:38:59 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243801 Hair dye has been around a long while though, and a lot of the ways it has been improved since the Romans used it have to do with making it long lasting rather than changing the colour. The fruit seller probably wouldn't have been able to afford loads of cosmetic stuff like hair dye anyway, but the prostitute might have seen it as an investment if it made her look better. Hair dye has been around a long while though, and a lot of the ways it has been improved since the Romans used it have to do with making it long lasting rather than changing the colour. The fruit seller probably wouldn’t have been able to afford loads of cosmetic stuff like hair dye anyway, but the prostitute might have seen it as an investment if it made her look better.

]]> By: Pete http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243504 Pete Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:59:21 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243504 Clearly you haven't ever had a teenaged sister if you think teenage girls are naturally fragrant creatures. They spend a lot of money to make themselves smell nice! <i>Maybe you personally don’t find anything intoxicating about young girls but I’m afraid most people do.</i> Errrr.... If you read the article again closely, you'll find nowhere where I said I didn't like the film. I was just interested in the juxtaposition between the attempts as gritty realism (Paris as dirty and filthy) and these hyper-stylised bits. Clearly you haven’t ever had a teenaged sister if you think teenage girls are naturally fragrant creatures. They spend a lot of money to make themselves smell nice!

Maybe you personally don’t find anything intoxicating about young girls but I’m afraid most people do. Errrr….

If you read the article again closely, you’ll find nowhere where I said I didn’t like the film. I was just interested in the juxtaposition between the attempts as gritty realism (Paris as dirty and filthy) and these hyper-stylised bits.

]]> By: Cassady http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243089 Cassady Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:15:47 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243089 As for the hair colour thing, the whole movie was shot and graded in brighter-than-life colour (perhaps to make up for the fact that we haven't yet invented Smell-A-Vision?), so I don't think it really matters that the hair colour of the girls wasn't 100% realistic. In fact - considering the film has a narration throughout - perhaps we might consider that we were seeing the girls through Grenouille's eyes. And I'm not sure why the reviewer had a problem with Ben Whishaw, I thought he was perfectly cast. Grenouille is supposed to be odd-looking and socially inept and he played it perfectly. As for the hair colour thing, the whole movie was shot and graded in brighter-than-life colour (perhaps to make up for the fact that we haven’t yet invented Smell-A-Vision?), so I don’t think it really matters that the hair colour of the girls wasn’t 100% realistic. In fact - considering the film has a narration throughout - perhaps we might consider that we were seeing the girls through Grenouille’s eyes.

And I’m not sure why the reviewer had a problem with Ben Whishaw, I thought he was perfectly cast. Grenouille is supposed to be odd-looking and socially inept and he played it perfectly.

]]> By: Cassady http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243030 Cassady Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:36:52 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-243030 I can't help but wonder why someone so obviously after realism went to an art film. This reviewer should have stayed home and watched Law & Order. What a boring movie it would have been if they had made it about the technicalities of the perfuming industry. Are we going to get upset that the incidental score probably wouldn't have actually been playing as well? It's a movie. It's fiction. Learn to suspend your disbelief. And I think the point about the girls smell just demonstrates that you kinda missed the point. The idea is that their smell is intoxicating. Maybe you personally don't find anything intoxicating about young girls but I'm afraid most people do. And teenage girls on the edge of puberty don't stink of b/o. The idea is that humans are like flowers, they bud, they bloom and they rot and it is at the blooming point that they generally look and smell the nicest. The whole point of the character is that he is the only one who realises this and he is the only one with the power to discover the perfect human scent. And humans, being humans, are inexplicably drawn to it, almost like magic. I can’t help but wonder why someone so obviously after realism went to an art film. This reviewer should have stayed home and watched Law & Order. What a boring movie it would have been if they had made it about the technicalities of the perfuming industry. Are we going to get upset that the incidental score probably wouldn’t have actually been playing as well? It’s a movie. It’s fiction. Learn to suspend your disbelief.

And I think the point about the girls smell just demonstrates that you kinda missed the point. The idea is that their smell is intoxicating. Maybe you personally don’t find anything intoxicating about young girls but I’m afraid most people do. And teenage girls on the edge of puberty don’t stink of b/o. The idea is that humans are like flowers, they bud, they bloom and they rot and it is at the blooming point that they generally look and smell the nicest. The whole point of the character is that he is the only one who realises this and he is the only one with the power to discover the perfect human scent. And humans, being humans, are inexplicably drawn to it, almost like magic.

]]> By: Misty http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-229237 Misty Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:09:47 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-229237 Maybe the colour is not natural, but I completely love it!! I'm a brunette who dyes her hair in red and that's the colour I want in my hair!! Rachel-Hurd Wood is blonde and I think Karoline Herfurth is blonde too. So their hair caught the colour really well!! I wonder which dye they used... I would do anything to know it!! T_T Maybe the colour is not natural, but I completely love it!! I’m a brunette who dyes her hair in red and that’s the colour I want in my hair!! Rachel-Hurd Wood is blonde and I think Karoline Herfurth is blonde too. So their hair caught the colour really well!! I wonder which dye they used… I would do anything to know it!! T_T

]]> By: Emma http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-179813 Emma Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:52:46 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2007/01/red-hair-dye-the-story-of-a-murderer/#comment-179813 My dad's irrational prejudice against gingers is based in part on the fact that apparently 'they smell a bit funny'. I would like to make it clear that I do not share this prejudice. My dad’s irrational prejudice against gingers is based in part on the fact that apparently ‘they smell a bit funny’. I would like to make it clear that I do not share this prejudice.

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