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[Mr. Somerset]

I personally think he should grow a mullet. It would be truly indicative of Bond's persona... business in the front, party in the back.

Yes and Daniel should take a photo of MacGyver with him when he goes to the salon to be assured he'd have that action hero mullet look.

[urhash]

His receding seems to have halted though since he became Bond, and I now doubt that he'll need to wear a hairpiece at all (unless of course he's already wearing tiny ones, as Brosnan admitted to - they hid his widow's peak in TWINE and DAD).

That's the first I've heard (about Brosnan). Was this in an interview?

[Jeff007]

His receding seems to have halted though since he became Bond, and I now doubt that he'll need to wear a hairpiece at all (unless of course he's already wearing tiny ones, as Brosnan admitted to - they hid his widow's peak in TWINE and DAD).

That's the first I've heard (about Brosnan). Was this in an interview?

Never heard that either. Do you have the source? Why keep that tinge of grey than?

[dodge]

I love this little-thread-that-could. Who's have thunk a thread about Daniel's haircut could go on for two pages...and still keep on going? Go! I predict 2 pages more.

[ImTheMoneypenny]

To throw my two cents in, I think Craig's haircut at the end of CR is very similar to his QoS haircut, more than at the beginning of CR. Though the QoS haircut is a touch longer and brushed over. I like it, it's functional yet looks like he cares enough but not too much about how he looks.

As one of the others on the board mentioned, Craig's hairline hasn't changed at all in years. I've seen pictures from about 10 or so years back and his hairline is exactly the same.

Edited by FaithfulMissMoneypenny, 26 May 2008 - 11:37 AM.

[stamper]

Craig probably has enough pocket cash now to buy himself top job implants... not that it matters anyway, as long as bond is not bald.

[UnderageBond35]

I like the cut he sported in CR. That may be because it's pretty much the same one I've had for several years.

do u know the specifications for your haircut? i have the same style hair as craig in CR but cant get the cut right. I would really appriciate it!

[I never miss]

His receding seems to have halted though since he became Bond, and I now doubt that he'll need to wear a hairpiece at all (unless of course he's already wearing tiny ones, as Brosnan admitted to - they hid his widow's peak in TWINE and DAD).

That's the first I've heard (about Brosnan). Was this in an interview?

Never heard that either. Do you have the source? Why keep that tinge of grey than?

Sorry for the delay in getting back. Yes it was in an article about DC, some while back now, but obviously after PB had finished playing Bond. As I mentioned above, apparently his widow's peak was 'filled in' for his last two Bond movies. Why keep the grey? I don't know. Why did PB admit the hairpieces? Again, I'm afraid I don't know. As his hair looks similiar now to how it did then (colour notwithstanding) then I assume, if this hairpiece thing is true, that he continues to wear them now.

I'll try and find a link for the interview.

UPDATE:

Here is the relevant section:
Critics who have queried Craig’s hairline should note that Sean Connery required a toupée to hide his bald patch in later films and Pierce Brosnan admitted that he needed a hairpiece to restore his hairline in The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Here is the link:
http://www.timesonli...icle1081339.ece

Edited by I never miss, 15 September 2008 - 08:53 PM.

[BoogieBond]

The haircut on the whole is fine.
In some scenes, it does look a bit "Bowl-cut", thinking of the bit where he is in the snow with M in the trailer. I'm not talking of Elvis, or Friar Tuck proportions, but I preferred the "Spiky" CR look, it suited Craig.
Wouldn't like Craig with a Comb-over, he is not Arthur Scargill

[trevanian]

I like hiw QOS due better, longer and to the side as he's finally becoming a real 00 agent and looks more classy instead of that crew cut in CR.

He didn't have a "crew cut" in the Casino Royale I saw.

it's just a comb forward, isn't it? Isn't that what it usually is with him, to hide the forehead?

[dodge]

It's to see this one bumped up...but whatever happened to the thread on poor Dan's hand?

[Burnsy]

I personally liked his hair in CR. But his "longerish" hair in QOS looks just fine.

[Stephen Spotswood]

I've made fun of Craig's Roman style haircut, and the way the shade varies apparently with the light, only to be told that's shallow on this site. But personally I think it's every bit as bad, if not worse, than Timothy Dalton's much cited swept back look and pronounced widow's peak in LTK.

http://www.geocities...TK_Casino_f.jpg

[007Bond007]

His hair cut is perfect for the role. Although the bond in the novels had black, longer hair (like connery).

[007Bond007]

Yea the shorter cut is always the best. The good boy english look. That is what bond is all about the small, polite, well kept guy that beats everyone up. Hes not realy supposed to look like a ruffiant hes realy supposed to look like a guy who suprises the people he goes up against. His hair cut that he has in cr and in quantum of solace are both the very intitlement of bond the pretty boy who can hold is own in battle.

[Stephen Spotswood]

The Bond in the book always struck me as looking what we used to call a yuppy or preppy type. I almost imagine the arrogant young fop type in the Agatha Christie stories. The hair overall is short, but the top rather long and spilling over the forehead. But you look a little closer and you see an English type probably more typical of the 1950's, someone who has survived a war, and has a somewhat cold, blase type living for the moment. This is someone obviously capable of taking care of himself, but without the bulging muscles. A soldier who keeps fighting, though he may be suffering, almost like he's on automatic pilot. Then you look further still and behind his blue-grey eyes you may see the man he once was. Women always seemed to be attracted to Bond's eyes with no explanation given in the books. It may be the color, or the intelligence, the lack of cruelty, or on the more romantic side someone suffering like a Heathcliff, and all the women want to be his Kathy.

This is the Bond that Timothy Dalton captured in TLD, although I see the Bond of the books as being less chiseled in the face, and maybe more comparable to the conceited head boy in an English public school.

[stamper]

Whoever wrote that Brosnan wears a headpiece in more recent Bonds is an idiot. He wears one in DAD because of the Jim Morrison prisoner look, the guy must have thought it was during the whole movie.

[I never miss]

Whoever wrote that Brosnan wears a headpiece in more recent Bonds is an idiot. He wears one in DAD because of the Jim Morrison prisoner look, the guy must have thought it was during the whole movie.

When I said that Pierce wore a hairpiece, I was actually quoting the article below, which states that he wore it in TWO movies (not counting the long-haired prisoner wig). Here is the relevant section and below it is the link:


Critics who have queried Craig’s hairline should note that Sean Connery required a toupée to hide his bald patch in later films and Pierce Brosnan admitted that he needed a hairpiece to restore his hairline in The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Here is the link:
http://www.timesonli...icle1081339.ece


BTW, it was really classy of you to call me an idiot. I bet the ladies love your smooth way with words.....

[stamper]

Hi man, I was talking of the guy who wrote the article, not about you don't take it personaly.

[Stephen Spotswood]

Suave and sophisticated super-spies shouldn't look like they got a bowl haircut from their mother in the kitchen.

[I never miss]

Hi man, I was talking of the guy who wrote the article, not about you don't take it personaly.

Ok, no problem, I misunderstood who you were aiming the term 'idiot' at in your post.

Back to the topic:

Craig's bowl-cut is more classic-Bond, whereas his CR haircut was more Bourne-like. It appears that Marc Forster is very keen on recreating the look of the early, classic Bonds (he has mentioned the sets of Ken Adam, for example) and perhaps he influenced the way Craig's hair was combed.

On the other hand, maybe MF wanted Craig's messed-up desert hair to be more dramatic-looking and contrasting to his neat classic style earlier in the movie.

[FlemingBond]

PB wears a hair piece??? first i've heard of that.

Craig's short cut is perfect for Bond, and for the current times. It also suits him better than the slightly longer hair he had years ago.

[stamper]

When you watch DAD (it happens, even to the best of us), apart from the Jim Morisson long hair wig for the prisoner scenes, it's obvious Pierce isn't wearing an hairpiece, as you can clearly see his hair is beginning to thin on the front, when compared to say TND. It's clear in the pre-credits, when his hair is wet.

[Peckinpah1976]

Hair follicles shrink when wet giving the appearance of thinning where there isn't any; if you compare the publicity shots from GE to those from TWINE it's quite apparent that Brosnan's hairline has thickened, not to say descended.

[Mojito007]

CR haircut is perfect. It just suits Daniel.

[bojangles]

Unfortunately, Danny boy has been going bald for a while now and his hairstyle in QoS provides us with evidence of some of the techniques being adopted to 'cover' this up. For instance, the come-from-behind, pasted down look I've seen in some of the close- ups may 'gloss over' a receeding hairline but it won't win new fans. At any rate, he should keep the hair a bit longer and, consequently, his options more open. Thus, I would have to say that I prefer the more aggressively spiked up CR image to this new one.

[dodge]

Unfortunately, Danny boy has been going bald for a while now and his hairstyle in QoS provides us with evidence of some of the techniques being adopted to 'cover' this up. For instance, the come-from-behind, pasted down look I've seen in some of the close- ups may 'gloss over' a receeding hairline but it won't win new fans. At any rate, he should keep the hair a bit longer and, consequently, his options more open. Thus, I would have to say that I prefer the more aggressively spiked up CR image to this new one.

Couldn't agree more. It was a look that he made all his own and this part of the transition to the "Bond we all know and love" could have been done nicely without, imo.

[dgruter]

Unfortunately, Danny boy has been going bald for a while now and his hairstyle in QoS provides us with evidence of some of the techniques being adopted to 'cover' this up. For instance, the come-from-behind, pasted down look I've seen in some of the close- ups may 'gloss over' a receeding hairline but it won't win new fans. At any rate, he should keep the hair a bit longer and, consequently, his options more open. Thus, I would have to say that I prefer the more aggressively spiked up CR image to this new one.

Couldn't agree more. It was a look that he made all his own and this part of the transition to the "Bond we all know and love" could have been done nicely without, imo.

Although I agree his hair is probably "thinning" (politically correct for "going bald"), I believe the hairstyle has more to do with "channeling" the King of Cool - Steve Mcqueen - He has been doing this since Layer Cake, and they share a very striking resemblance (ice blue eyes, blond, lean face, etc.). He was even tapped by one of Mcqueen's ex-wives as someone who could play Mcqueen in a biopic. I personally like it, and believe its more in tone with the retro feal of the movie (as mentioned by Marc Forster). Anything Mcqueen like is "cool"...

[Germanlady]

Balding - indeed. His hairline was never any different, but I agree, I am not too fond on that "serious" hairdo either.

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Edited by Germanlady, 09 October 2008 - 08:46 PM.

[Mr_Wint]

I'm not a big fan of the extremely short cut Craig had in CR. He looks better (more Bond-like) with longer hair. Like he had during the CR premiére.