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juneaux:
Okay~ I haven't seen this discussed anywhere (no doubt it has been but I missed it)~ why does Lureen get more blonde as the movie progresses?  Is it merely a fashion statement regarding the times  or does the lightening of her hair parallel the growing coldness of her personality?  Jack does say she has a head for business deals but that their relationship could be expressed by telephone.  Anyone have any thoughts on this?  Am I turning nothing into something?  Please share.


Thanks,


J.

serious crayons:
I see it as an outward sign of her marital frustrations. Also, back in them days when wives complained that the spark had gone out of their marriage, it was fairly common for them to be advised to lighten their hair.

Kea:
I always thought it a pity as the Lureen that Jack met was stunning with that dark hair......

they matched so nicely together...as they danced...( appearences only of course).....

I tended to see it as more that she became less of the woman he married and more like a doll....

it seemed unreal ...and pretend like their marriage.

saw the switch to the blond as...a symbol of the unreality of it all.....the pretense....Anne Hataway said she enjoyed the Farah Fawcett look of the time....more of keeping up with expectation of that day and age...prehaps..

if you get what I mean... ::) ::)

ednbarby:
Excellent point, Kea.  I think it's a combination of everything mentioned, here.  I can see her becoming blonder and blonder in an effort to get her husband's attention (I commented yesterday in another thread where that subject cropped up but wasn't the main subject of the thread that I myself once tried to go from ash blonde to platinum a couple months after having my son because I thought it would rekindle the spark of my and my husband's then largely non-existence sex life).  But I can also see it as a symbol of the falseness of their marriage as well as the brittleness of her soul.

God, I love this movie.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on April 26, 2006, 09:54:01 am --- But I can also see it as a symbol of the falseness of their marriage as well as the brittleness of her soul.

--- End quote ---

I get the false marriage part, Barb, but what do you mean by the brittle soul part?

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