[ SECRET POST #4677 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4677 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/Hj8Xhyp.png

[(Anonymous)]

Action makes sense, but horror? The whole point of most horror is that you don't know what's coming for you until it's too late.

[(Anonymous)]

This was my thought, especially as it relates to the image OP chose.

[tabaqui]

Eh. I've had long hair all my life. You learn to work around it. And if something suddenly happens out of the blue, having a hair tie or whatever isn't always going to happen.

(And try as i might, i cannot, cannot, cannot do that thing with my hair where they twist it up and kind of...tie it with itself? My hair falls out of that in about ten seconds.)

Pencils or something as hair sticks work better in a pinch, but even those aren't around as much now that people do so much computering/texting.

[(Anonymous)]

Mine doesn't even stay in a ponytail for more than about 10 minutes! Only thing that does stay in is plaits (braids), but I don't want to do that all the time.

[tabaqui]

I can do a ponytail with the right hair tie, but *man*, it gives me a solid headache after about half an hour. Hair tie plus sticks is best, since i can coil all the weight of it up and not have it pulling all day.

Still feels best down, though.

[philstar22]

I get the headache too. When I had long hair, I almost always wore it down just because anything else gave me a headache. I have super thick hair (every single hairdresser feels the need to comment every time I go), so that much weight being pulled back was difficult. Actually, when I cut it shorter (neck length now), I was surprised to find I had a lot less headaches overall.

[tabaqui]

I don't really have particularly thick hair - it doesn't seem that way to me at all. But it is past my waist, so - a ponytail just *pulls*.

I like a braid, but i don't like my ears sticking out, heh, so i rarely wear one.

[tabaqui]

I do agree, though, re: deliberate action. I loved that *all* the Marines in Aliens had short/buzz cuts, and I will *never* accept Natasha taking her hair DOWN from the nice, sleek, tight chignon she had it in in IM2 when she went to go fight.

(Sure, she looked cool with her hair all down and wild, but she is a pro - she would never do that.)

[(Anonymous)]

Once she takes it down, doesn't it sproing out into perfect curls? That's what really cracks me up, not the taking it down but he fact that it's curly after without looking flattened down!

[tabaqui]

Yup. Which i'd be fine with if she had naturally curly hair, but she has, at the most, sort of wavy hair, and of course it was sleek and flat in the twist or whatever it was in.

[nightscale]

It only bothers me if the woman in question is supposed to be well-versed in fighting, because if it's the case of someone suddenly being thrown into a dire situation I'm not going to take onus with the fact that they might have long hair, they weren't prepared for it after all.

But if they spend a significant chunk of their life fighting and know they're about to throw down? Then yes, a practical hairstyle would be nice, you can still make pony-tails and short cuts look fancy anyway so it's not like it looses sex appeal.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand OPs frustration and your post. I think it's because a lot of action involves stuntwomen, so in practical terms, it blurs the fact to help suspension of disbelieve that it could be the woman in question.

Kind of like how people in their 20s in comedies have big apartments. Not reality, but production needs enough of a space for cameras and all.

Well...

[(Anonymous)]

I would only really expect that if they are both used to fighting and expect to fight. So, Marines going to a planet that they have been unable to communicate with -> yes; camp counselors heading to Crystal Lake to prepare it for campers -> no; ex-CIA heading to the Congo on a rescue mission/looking for a lost city/trying to return a gorilla to her natural habitat -> yes; an actress thrown onto a real-life spacecraft modeled on the old TV show she was on -> no.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not like they know they're going to be in a horror movie, not everyone brings hair ties around with them wherever they go.

[(Anonymous)]

Ponytail doesn't help, because that's still a convinient thing to grab onto.
Pixie or at the very least a tight bun.