Raoul is a Hero (video)

[igenlode]

This is largely an experiment to see whether (a) I can post to a community other than my own home page on Dreamwidth and (b) whether I can manually embed a video into a page.

It's a link to Raoul is a Hero on YouTube -- with some very clever matching of lyrics and movie footage!

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[betweensunandmoon]

Great video, although I prefer Bonnie Tyler's version of that song.

WHY did they give Patrick Wilson such a ridiculous hairstyle?

[igenlode]

I can only assume that they wanted to go for what they thought was an 'aristocratic' look -- I'm not sure the decision is even mentioned in the 'Making of...' documentary. But given that nobody in any period of history I can think of actually wore their hair like that (the only scene in which it looks vaguely authentic is the ball, when Raoul wears his hair tied in a queue with military uniform), let alone in the late nineteenth century, I can't imagine what they had in mind. Conan the Barbarian?

Men in the 1500s wore their hair a little shorter than that, and squared off in a fringe. Men in the 1600s wore it longer and often curled, eventually resorting to wigs in order to obtain the fashionable volume :-p Eighteenth-century aristocrats were notorious for powdering their hair and/or wigs white (as seen in "Pirates of the Caribbean") and wore it tied back in a pig-tail; after the Revolution men stopped wearing hair below the collar at all, save for a handful of elderly die-hards. But nobody that I can think of ever wore their hair straight, shoulder length, and tucked behind the ears...

[betweensunandmoon]

Based on what I've learned from phanwank and Musical Hell, nothing about that movie is historically accurate.

But nobody that I can think of ever wore their hair straight, shoulder length, and tucked behind the ears...

...And on top of that, it's not very flattering. :P