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--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected] , TurquoiseB no_reply@
> > wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Just rent a copy of "Dance With Wolves" and watch
> > > it and document for us (with a time listing of when
> > > they appear in the film, or a clear description
> > > of the scene in which they appear) every instance
> > > you see in the film that supports YOUR descriptions
> > > of Mary McConnell's hair as follows:
> > >
> > > 1. "slovenly looking"
> > > 2. "wild and savage"
> > > 3. "matted and tangled"
> > > 4. "a snarled, dirty-looking mess"
> > > 5. "looks like a rat's nest"
> > > 6. "looking like a slattern"
> >
> > Already posted a still *from her wedding* that
> > supports these descriptions, plus another one
> > with my first post on the topic. Here's a third:
> 
>   [mcdonnell2]  <http://www.flickr.com/photos/36189...@n02/4271258355/>
> 
> This is not a shot from the film; it's a publicity photo
> taken on the set but not from the film itself. Note the
> signature.

Yeah, right, she'd mess her hair up real good for a
publicity photo and then comb it neatly into place
when she was filming a scene.

<snicker>

Her face even looks dirty in that shot. Could just be
the lighting, but they don't typically release publicity
photos of stars with dirty-looking faces *unless that's
a feature of the character*.

Also, of course, stills from a film, complete with
autographs, are often used as publicity photos to
send out to drooling fanboys.

> I think you're pissing into the same wind that blew
> Mary's hair into the tousled but attractive form you
> projected *your* inner ugliness onto. I repeat, there
> is not a moment in the film in which her hair is shown
> as "dirty-looking" or "matted," only wind-blown. Only
> by doing what I suggested can you ever prove otherwise.

Already posted three stills, one of them from *the
wedding scene*.

> Here's a more representative shot from the film itself:
>   [http://www.koehlercustoms.com/Fist3.JPG]

It's in better shape in this shot, I'll grant you, but
it isn't "more representative" by any means. It's still
uncombed looking, and it's STILL in striking contrast to
the hair of the Indian women.

Her hair looks a lot neater in the "normal" shot. But
even if it didn't, it would be fine *for her* as a
"normal" style in modern times. That doesn't somehow
diminish its incongruity for her in the role of a white 
woman of the 1860s raised by Indians and fiercely loyal
to the tribe. Apples and kiwi fruit.

I challenged you to address that contrast rationally
and without demonization. Still waiting.

And I also said:

Before you demand that I go through the film and
annotate all the scenes in which McDonnell's hair
looked messy, you go through your posts, retract
all the assertions you know to be false, and
provide documentation for those you genuinely
believe to be true but that I've contested.

Pointless to "wait" on that one. You're
constitutionally incapable of even that much
honesty.


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