Interestingly, the retired agents favored the flathead, as the return of life trajectory to the flathead people showed.
Wen | Ai Jiangtao
It is best to have a flat head
It's hard to describe exactly when the heroes on the screen started to catch on shorter hairstyles: flatheads, or our more commonly used word: inch head. But after entering the 1990s, an indisputable theme in tough guy movies was indeed the retirement of agents. This, of course, is a symptom of a change in the new world order, but the outbreak of terrorism in the wake of 9/11 in 2001 seems to have provided some context for the comeback of agents.
In the complex of ordinary people who are pinned on tough guys or heroes, there is one indicator that is very important: he is skilled, and only in this way can he have the ability to help the poor and eliminate evil. Agents, special forces, especially agents who have retired or returned to their families, become the best candidates for the dreams of ordinary people. Interestingly, they all favor flatheads, as the return of life trajectories to the flatheads has shown.
In the Korean movie "Lonely Agent" ("Uncle"), the uncle next door played by Yuan Bin broke away from the secret agent organization after experiencing the change of accidental widowhood and became an uncle who opened a pawnshop next door to the little girl Xiaomi. At the beginning of the film, the gloomy and decadent uncle has a "mop head" similar to that of the Beatles, even longer than that, almost covering one eye. But when he discovered that Xiaomi was in danger of a criminal organization and tried to rescue him, he finally decided to change his self-image. In the film, he holds a pusher and cuts his hair short in the mirror, which is impressive.
Stills from "LoneLy Agent"
Brad Pitt in The Smiths, although part of the killer group, has returned to his family. Pete cut off his flowing blonde hair from the previous year's Troy and kept a handsome flat head. It is no exaggeration to say that Pete's style in this film has become the endorsement of almost the entire flat-headed community.
Brad Pitt had flowing blond hair in Troy, and the following year he spoke for the flathead in The Smiths
Stills from The Smiths
When it comes to the subject of retired agents, how can it be less Than Jason Statham. It was only when it came to him that he hesitated, his already half-bald head was obviously not a flat head, but it was difficult to classify it into an authentic bald head, and it seemed that it could be classified as the transition between flat head and bald head: "bald hair".
Jason Statham started as a jerk in Two Big Smoking Guns and is already bald
Whether it is in the three "Desperate Express" starring in 2002, or the "Homeland Defense Line" released in 2013, Statham is constantly interpreting the importance of family and ordinary people's emotions to a retired agent, and constantly telling people: bald tough guys are also very handsome. This, for many male audiences who are suffering from hair loss and are getting greasy, is like a beacon in the night, premised on the premise that you need to work hard and disciplined daily exercise.
Bald-headed superstars, irrepressible hormones
In the history of cinema, it seems that the Russian-American actor Yul Brynner first pioneered this ethos. In The King and I, released in 1956, Berenner famously shaved a bald head for the character's needs. It's famous because very few people did it at the time.
Speaking about the reincarnation of male hairstyles in his book Hair: A Fun Human History, American Kurt Stenn said: "In the early '90s, we witnessed all sorts of hairstyles at once: long hair, short hair, sideburns, small beards, and big beards, and in most cases, as long as they were neatly groomed, they were equally accepted. After that, Yule Berner's fashionable bald head returned, played by celebrities like Bruce Willis, James Todd Smith, Pitbull, Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel. Now, men with shaved heads are incredibly proud of the charm and sensuality of their bald-headed image. ”
Jason Statham
Among the bald superstars that Kurt Stein pointed out in one breath, Bruce Willis, "Dwayne" Johnson, van Diesel are undoubtedly familiar to Chinese audiences. Although we don't know when people's impression of bald heads has changed, there is no doubt that bald heads are increasingly becoming a representation of some kind of toughness and unique charm.
Bruce Willis didn't play bald-headed characters from the start, at least in Pulp Fiction, released in 1993, he played boxer Butch, who was at best a bald head like Jason Statham, while Samuel Jackson, who was a member of the underworld in the same film, also had an exploding head, far from becoming the bald commander in the later Avengers. From the release of "Die Hard" in 1988 to "Die Hard 5" in 2013, we can clearly see the lone hero played by Bruce Willis, a Los Angeles police detective, gradually moving towards the bald head.
Bruce Willis plays boxer Butch in Pulp Fiction
Dwayne Johnson, a former famous wrestler, gave the image of the bald tough guy a more explosive hormone after starring in the "Fast and Furious" series of films. Also in the same series, Van Diesel embarked on his journey to bald superstardom. In the 2001 release of "Fast and Furious", he played the biker party boss Dominic, who was highly skilled and tough, while the partners around him and even the undercover police officers were attracted by his seriousness like a magnet.
Stills from Fast and Furious 7
The bald superstars of the new era constantly render the strength and personality of the tough guy theme: the real tough guy is never cold-blooded and cruel, but iron-blooded tenderness.
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