<![CDATA[Why did they give the TJ Newton character ginger hair?]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Man Who Fell to Earth

truekiwijoker — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 02:02 AM)

Not an inspired decision given who played him. I'm sure I'm not the only one who kept thinking
"whooah, ziggy! ziggy!"
. Even in the scene where he's just crash landed and walking down a hill I kept thinking of the lyrics to moonage daydream.

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it was a nod to ziggy for sure but i thought why disguise yourself as a human and then choose such bizzare fakey hair? hah

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I was thinking that at the end when its revealed that after the apocalypse of his planet, he decides to get some money by making records.
The "album" he released was a subliminal message he hoped would somehow travel through the solar system and reach any survivors of his planet. Sounds mental but this entire book and film is mental. In a good way.
Suburban Robot That Monitors Reality

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Ginger? Or Ginger SPICE?

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I'm sure I'm not the only one who kept thinking "whooah, ziggy! ziggy!".
I was thinking that at the end when its revealed that after the apocalypse of his planet, he decides to get some money by making records.
As for the hair, I think it was mainly because I heard somewhere that Nicholas Roeg adapted the original story to fit David Bowie's stage persona of Ziggy Stardust.
"I have always valued my lifelessness."

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Bowie was given some liberty in shaping the character's image, so it's likely that the hair was his idea. There's also the fact that Nicolas Roeg saw him in Cracked Actor and thought he was perfect for the part as is, going so far as to cast not only Bowie himself, but his limo and his driver, too.
I love his haircut and color in this, but it
is
kinda funny that the character described in the book bears a much closer resemblance to Bowie's Serious Moonlight image, what with curly, platinum hair and a light tan. Another peculiar coincidence is that book!Newton can't see the color red. Maybe that explains it? 🙂

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