Brown Hair?
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tim-r-kramer — 13 years ago(February 08, 2013 05:20 AM)
I never knew anything about wigs being worn until I did some research on the Internet. Shockingly to me, Reeve was wearing a wig as both Clark and Superman in the majority of the footage shot for each film. Those lighter streaks in the wigs for III must've been intentional, but who knows why.
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igasu — 13 years ago(February 08, 2013 11:08 AM)
Wigs are worn a lot in films for various reasons. Reeve wasn't bald or balding, but I think his natural hair line sat farther back than needed. Chris Evans wears a wig for Captain America, in Avengers anyway. And in one scene in Green Lantern you can tell Ryan Reynolds is wearing a wig too.
Does the Superman III dvd have commentary? Info like that may not be on it, but it is worth a look, for me anyway.
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tim-r-kramer — 13 years ago(February 12, 2013 09:36 AM)
I think, as far as the Superman movies go, wigs were used for Reeve to help speed up filming since his hair was different for Clark and Superman. Continuity-wise, it would be much easier to use wigs that could easily be styled exactly the same instead of dealing with his real hair. With that said, the wigs used in the first two films in particular are very difficult to detect. Stuart Freeborn, who just passed away, deserves a lot of credit for that.
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igasu — 13 years ago(February 12, 2013 06:26 PM)
Yeah, those wigs looked flawless. I think at the end part 2 you can see a drastic hair change, probably because they where filmed a year apart.
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Passport-To-Pimlico — 13 years ago(February 07, 2013 08:39 AM)
You may find this odd but, No, I dont believe a man can fly. This is a movie in which he is suspended on wires and posing on projection screens.
It was a riff on the very, very famous tagline of the
Superman
franchise.
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igasu — 13 years ago(February 07, 2013 09:56 AM)
So you where being sarcastic? Well, then I apologize.
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Little Caesar — 12 years ago(July 04, 2013 07:26 PM)
I was going to start a thread about this. Reeve really looked different here. The brown hair always threw me off. He also seemed to be wearing a heavy makeup on his eyes at times. He just looks different from the first 2 movies. Not that much time had passed.
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tim-r-kramer — 12 years ago(July 18, 2013 09:52 AM)
I agree Little Caesar. It was maybe a little over two years between the final filming of Superman II in early 1980 and the beginning of Superman III filming in 1982, so it wasn't that long, but he did look different. Reeve definitely did some serious work in the gym in that span because he looks his strongest in III. The makeup does seem heavier in the third film. Perhaps that was due to the inclusion of Evil Superman, whose look obviously required a completely different makeup approach. It is possible that they were attempting to do more to offset the good and evil.
The hair issue is really strange though. It is clearly much more brown and has some lighter streaks along the sides. Sort of the opposite of what I said about the makeup, I wonder if it wasn't an intentional decision to make Superman/Clark's hair a bit lighter so that it didn't look wildly different from Evil Supe's dirty, unkempt look. Wigs were worn by Reeve in each of the three roles, and I just wonder if the makeup people/producers worried that the hair would be detected as fake if they kept Supe/Kent's hair very dark while making Evil Supe's hair lighter. That is just my speculation. -
Soupful — 11 years ago(May 27, 2014 12:55 AM)
The recommencement of Director Richard Lester's "Superman II" footage began filming on location in Niagra Falls first from Septemeber 1979 concluding by early March 1980.
"Superman III" began filming principal photography from August 1982 concluding by November 1982.
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cobrn-24298 — 9 years ago(January 03, 2017 10:41 PM)
In Superman 3 its dark hair for Clark and a lighter dark with brown highlights for the evil Superman because it's ukempt.. I normally have lighter brown hair but when it's slicked back with hair gel it's appears much darker.. This is my own reason but could be a plausible explanation.
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michaelsmith30 — 12 years ago(September 12, 2013 05:11 PM)
A guy named Jim Bowers who is the webmaster for a Superman movie site told me that Chris wore wigs in every scene in 3&4. Chris has said in interviews that he dyed his hair black. I'm assuming that was for parts 1&2. His hair in 3 was definitely not black. In 4 it was.
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igasu — 12 years ago(March 22, 2014 09:09 AM)
Yeah, if you watch the film closely you see very visible brown streaks and patches. These pics dont really do it justice, but in film its quite glaring.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5CyNC81W6p4/TuogiJqGiWI/AAAAAAAAMR4/wR5zsmXJ mAA/s1600/Angry_Superman.jpg
http://www.craveonline.com/images/stories/2011/2012/July/Film/The Se ries%20Project/Superman%20Part%202/Superman_III_Lana_Lang.jpg
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igasu — 12 years ago(March 23, 2014 01:15 PM)
Nope, both as Clark and Evil Superman. And before the exposure to the fake Kryptonite. If you catch it again, go the picnic scene. Thats where it is really obvious.
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igasu — 12 years ago(March 28, 2014 11:41 AM)
Its not.
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