Blue Steel
Today I watched Zoolander in full for the first time. It was ok. I still don't get why so many people like this movie. I mean, it wasn't bad, but I didn't laugh. Oh well.
The entire time I was watching it, I kept having a really hard time with suspension of disbelief regarding Zoolander's hair. I was able to let go of the fact that Ben Stiller is short and stocky rather than tall and willowy, as most runway models are, but the hair I couldn't get past. I kept wishing they'd have given him swishy side bangs, which I associate much more with male models, rather than that ridiculous brush-mop haircut. Who has hair like that, I kept thinking, and why would anyone buy that as remotely appropriate even as a parody of silly model haircuts?
So after the movie was done, I did a Google image search on "male model." And these were among the top results:
So I guess I was wrong. Man, do male models have terrible hair.
The entire time I was watching it, I kept having a really hard time with suspension of disbelief regarding Zoolander's hair. I was able to let go of the fact that Ben Stiller is short and stocky rather than tall and willowy, as most runway models are, but the hair I couldn't get past. I kept wishing they'd have given him swishy side bangs, which I associate much more with male models, rather than that ridiculous brush-mop haircut. Who has hair like that, I kept thinking, and why would anyone buy that as remotely appropriate even as a parody of silly model haircuts?
So after the movie was done, I did a Google image search on "male model." And these were among the top results:
So I guess I was wrong. Man, do male models have terrible hair.