The (big) Making of TMP book....

[STEPhon IT]

Absolutely. I know this is from the wrong film (TUC, not TMP), but the only thing I changed was the hair:



I think it Shatner looks much better with the original style hair he wore, and it also shows how little he had changed facially in 25 years.

I think the 90's and beyond hair pieces appeared more natural.

 

[Doug Otte]

^^ It was in context of how certain elements of the sets (like the Sickbay) were designed to suggest advanced materiels and other aspects of manufacturing allowed for certain shapes to be used that appeared to defy gravity and look more unconventional to our sensibilities.
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Thanks for clarifying. I understand now.

 

[Khan 2.0]

The more I see it, the more I wish he'd kept the old hair:

One thing though. Shats hair in TOS season 3 was abit thicker bushier darker..almost sort of getting to the TMP dark curly do

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Another note on the costumes. Apparently the original concept had all the uniforms being more like Kirk's admiral's design. Roddenberry thought that looked too militaristic for Star Trek.

Well considering the reaction to the redesign used as the Into Darkness dress uniforms, it seems some fans agree with him a bit.

 

[HGN2001]

I have this book but haven't attempted a start-to-finish read. Instead, I use it as a sort of reference, opening a page and finding something of interest to read in that particular section.

 

[RColtrane]

Man, I'm loving this book! I've bought it about a month ago and I'm still at the beginning, but it is well written and presented in a different format which keeps me wanting to know more and more about the whole thing. The only 'issue' to me is the lack of pictures. It would be great to have some pictures and/or illustrations at some points. But despite that, it is a great book.

 

[Kev72]

Could someone send a link to this book?

Thanks

 

[Warped9]

Could someone send a link to this book?

Thanks

Here: http://www.amazon.com/Return-Tomorr...w+the+filming+of+star+trek+the+motion+picture

 

[Nyotarules]

It sure was. Shoot, I'm old enough that I still occasionally catch myself thinking that a movie star's career must be fading when I see them in a TV show. On the flip side, you'll still very, very rarely see an "A-list" movie star appear on TV, so the bias is still there to some extent.

I suspect its an American bias due to the size of your industry and location. In the UK traditionally but I doubt this the case now
Theatre actors trump movie actors trump tv actors. These days British actors are happy to flip between any medium.

 

[Nyotarules]

Too bad. Roddenberry and Wise were right. Uhura's hair is one of the things that dates the movie.

A woman with afro-textured hair wore it in its natural state (no perms, no Euro straight hair wig) what other way was there to wear it not to 'date' the movie?

Shame. If the entire crew had been wearing a variation of the Admiral design, the costumes would've looked a LOT better.

Agreed, Shatner's uniform looked less like a onsie but hated that big buckle in the front

 

[Doug Otte]

I suspect its an American bias due to the size of your industry and location. In the UK traditionally but I doubt this the case now
Theatre actors trump movie actors trump tv actors. These days British actors are happy to flip between any medium.

You are correct that it used to be a stigma in the US, but no longer. Now, we see film actors moving to/from TV and stage, etc. I think it's a combination of quality films now being in the minority compared to comic book adaptations, as well as the perception here that, overall, the quality of TV shows is much higher than it used to be.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

A woman with afro-textured hair wore it in its natural state (no perms, no Euro straight hair wig) what other way was there to wear it not to 'date' the movie?

For better or worse, afros are very associated with the 1970s. I'm not saying that's good or bad. It's just the way it is.

 

[jaime]

For better or worse, afros are very associated with the 1970s. I'm not saying that's good or bad. It's just the way it is.

All those dudes rocking afro, some with a comb stuck in when I was a teenager, I see what you mean.....except I wasn't a teenager in the 70s, it was the 90s. Fashion is cyclical, and hair is always hair.

On a related note, without delving into the shatners wig debate, it is extremely common for hair to change in exactly the way shatners does, my own family men share a similar hair type, we all start out fair and can easily go for a 60s shatner, as we get older it gets darker, (and thinner...the end point is presumably a Picard...we shall see, my dad's hanging in just short of a Stewart, while I am hitting prime shatner) and the curly is basically it's natural state before being hit with brylcreem....then we eventually get hair like a Mediterranean sailor, as we see with the Admiral Kirk.

Man.

I weigh in with some weighty ideas don't I?
Leave the peeps hair alone! Dagnabit! Hair fascism is so 1959.