Dances with Wolves - AIBU to say that ...

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the woman who plays the white woman in this has the most utterly ridiculous hairstyle? Surely if she'd lived with a Sioux tribe most of her life she would have adopted the trademark plaits/ponytail rather than a rather bouffant 80s affair with a fringe?

(Clearly I have nothing better to do this evening)

I love that film.

Here she is and YANBU.

But most of us now look like that after 70 million months of lockdown, so...

I remember watching this when it came out, and thinking it was such a good film. Re-watching now (on Sony Movies) it's very predictable, very cliched and very, very long!

Why do you assume real people would have worn ‘trademark’ hairstyles? I don’t know how people in those communities wore their hair, but I’m prepared to believe there was a range of acceptable styles.

But yes, it is long. Still quite good.

You’re not wrong, op. Watched it a week ago for the first time ever and Kevin’s hair is pretty bouffant 80s too!

flaviaritt just in line with the story - all the other women in the tribe have their hair a certain way. The white woman has thick, dark hair, so it would have been obvious for her to have adopted their style. And certainly not to backcomb it

Maybe so. Maybe the other women’s hair is a stereotype, though. I don’t rightly know.

Well it was made in 1990! And my favourite ever film. It’s just beautiful.

This was my takeaway thought from the movie too OP!

It was clear the actress just didn’t have the long hair she would have if she were really in that situation. The styling department could have given her extensions. For some reason they chose to style her like a cavewoman

It's not really a hairstyle though is it.

I would have assumed, looking at the pictures - haven't seen the film - that her hair is supposed to look unkempt and wild.

I know hair was big in the 80s but there's a difference between big hair and a mess; it looks as if it's never been combed.

And she had a fringe! IRL she wouldn’t have had a fringe.

Yes it’s the fringe which makes no sense whatsoever. Nobody else cuts their hair at all: why would she go out of her way to cut in a fringe?

Her husband had recently died, believe some native cultures did cut hair when there had been a death. So the unkempt/cut ish hair sort of in keeping with a loss.

Nicked from google : "Many tribes cut their hair when there is a death in the immediate family as an outward symbol of the deep sadness and a physical reminder of the loss. The cut hair represents the time with their loved one, which is over and gone, and the new growth is the life after".

I love this film.

At least she wasn't wearing padded shoulders ha! Westerns made in the 1940's often had women who looked totally stupid in blouses and make up /hair styles which were just silly and not authentic looking at all.
Raquel Welch played the lead in The Legend of Walks Far Woman and portrayed a Native American widow. She was perfectly groomed throughout despite doing as her name suggested, walking for miles and miles in the dry heat as part of the storyline.

Dances with Wolves is a great movie though but I remember thinking years ago when I watched, is that Kate Bush?

I always associate that film with mousse overload!

You're probably right - I always thought some of buffaloes moved in a rather ungainly, mechanical way.

Also I've always been puzzled by the fact that one never saw anyone go to a hairdressers at all in any of the Star Wars films. Maybe hair grows more slowly in space? I mean wouldn't they all end up looking like Chwebacca without a quick trip to Toni & Guy?

Oh I love that film.
Sorry that's not helpful.

Why's it so long? The film, not her hair

@Lizadork

Her husband had recently died, believe some native cultures did cut hair when there had been a death. So the unkempt/cut ish hair sort of in keeping with a loss.

Nicked from google : "Many tribes cut their hair when there is a death in the immediate family as an outward symbol of the deep sadness and a physical reminder of the loss. The cut hair represents the time with their loved one, which is over and gone, and the new growth is the life after".

First Nations don't cut a FRINGE when someone dies.

Disappointed that picture link didn't work for me! Never seen the film

Her hair is better than Kev's mullet.....

I think it’s similar to how the films we grew up with now look very much a product of their time, despite seeming very contemporary back then.

Hahaι, i remember thinking this as a child. Why is her hair so choppy and fluffy and weird. 😅

Poor woman can't win, if she wore plaits she would have been accused of cultural appropriation.