Hair
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Short description
Claude Hooper Bukowski, a naive young man from an Oklahoma ranch, travels to New York shortly before he is due to report for military service and eventual deployment to Vietnam. In Central Park he falls in with a group of long-haired hippies, among them the pacifist Berger and the wealthy Sheila, and is drawn into their world of free love and anti-war protest. Adapted from the 1967 Broadway tribal love-rock musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot, the film follows Claude as he is pulled between the values he grew up with and the counterculture he has just discovered, a conflict that shapes how he meets his call-up.
Miloš Forman directed, working from a screenplay by Ragni and Rado, with Lester Persky and Michael Butler producing. The cast includes John Savage as Claude, Treat Williams as Berger, Beverly D'Angelo as Sheila, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright and Don Dacus, among 67 credited performers. The film arrived after Forman's The Firemen's Ball, I Miss Sonia Henie and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and before Ragtime and Amadeus.
Released in March 1979, Hair had a budget of about 11 million dollars and took roughly 15 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.5 from around 44,000 votes, and on TMDB a 7.3 from 777 votes, while critics rated it 7.8 from 63 reviews, a critical score slightly above the audience figures.
What's left behind the scenes
- When the character played by Treat Williams sings the third verse of the final musical number, the backing vocalists perform lines from William Shakespeare's (1554-1616) tragedies "Romeo and Juliet" (1595-1596) and "Hamlet" (1600-1601).
- Director Miloš Forman (1932-2018) only regretted casting Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) as the General. He had to perform in clouds of smoke, he acted, and only then did Forman learn that Ray had lung cancer.
- The film is based on a stage musical, but the film has its own plot, the songs are performed in a different order, and the characters are portrayed differently than in the theater.
- Over 20,000 extras were used in the performance of the musical compositions “3-5-0-0” and “Let the Sun Shine In.” Filming took place at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
- Madonna and Bruce Springsteen auditioned for roles in the film.
- Miloš Forman cast Annie Golden as Jenny after seeing her perform with the punk rock band “The Shirts” at the famous “Bawery” nightclub.
- In 1967, Miloš Forman attended the very first off-Broadway performance of “Hair” in New York. After the show, he approached the authors – James Rado (1932-2022), Gerome Ragni (1935-1991), and Galt MacDermot (1928-2018) – stating that he would like to create a cinematic adaptation and asking them to consider his proposal.
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