A Movie Scene Quiz

I think you're right, Roberta. But I can't tell you that for a fact.

There were similar scenes in Hair and Officer and a Gentlemen, and maybe Biloxi Blues, but I'd like someone to agree with me on those titles, as they're all blurring together for me.

Mac, I can agree with you on Hair. Don't know about Biloxi Blues and An Officer and Gentleman. I guess military movies make a show of people getting their hair cut off.

These I'm sure of:

37. Waiting to Exhale - Loretta Devine's character runs a salon
38. Pleasantville - barber shop scenes

Don't you love the scene where she swings her big behind and walks away from Gregory Hines' character and says, "Oh God, I hope he's not looking."

And he WAS looking. And he was digging it.

Loved that scene, eoe. Loved Gregory Hines in that movie.

I'm pretty sure (with Google's help) that this is how it went, but correct me if I'm wrong:

In "Hair", we see Treat Williams' before and after his buddy cuts his hair. No barber or barbershop. And none of the other characters got a haircut.

In "An Officer and a Gentleman", we see the guys waiting in line to get their hair cut, but we don't see the barber cutting their hair. We just see the results.

In "Full Metal Jacket", there's a scene where we see the Marines get their heads shaved from start to finish.

I don't know about Biloxi Blues. I saw it, but I can't remember.


So at this time, I'll recap with "Full Metal Jacket" added:

B = Beauty Salon and Barber Shop scenes

1. Steel Magnolias
2. Barbershop
3. Beauty Shop
4. Soul Food
5. Poetic Justice
6 Married to the Mob
7. Shampoo
8. One Fine Day
9. Oceans Twelve
10. Moonstruck
11. Coming to America
12. The Shootist
13. The Godfather
14. Grease (Beauty School Dropout)
15. Legally Blonde
16. GI Jane
17. Runaway Bride
18 Five Car Stud
19. What's Love Got To Do With It
20. The Man Who Wasn't There
21. Memoirs of a Geisha
22. Le Marie de la Coiffeuse (1990, The Hairdresser's Husband), protagonist marries hairdresser
23. Fatou la Malienne (2001), protagonist is hairdresser
24. Fatou l'Espoir (2003), protagonist is hairdresser
25. De Vierde Man (1983, The Fourth Man), Renée Soutendijk owns beauty salon
26. Il Mio nome è Nessuno (1973, My Name is Nobody), Terence Hill gets a shave
27. Edward Scissorhands (1990), Johnny Depp is almost raped in a beauty salon
28. Kort Amerikaans (1979, Crew Cut), protagonist hates haircuts but is forced
29. The Crying Game (1992), Dill is a hairdresser
30. Italiensk for begyndere (2000, Italian for Beginners), one of the characters is a hairdresser
31. Say It Isn't So (2001), love interest is clumsy hairdresser
32. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin is a barber in the Ghetto)
33. Giant
34. Hands Across the Table (Carole Lombard's character is a manicurist in a barbershop
35. The Women (Crawford, Shearer, Russell, Goddard)
36. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1936 British film)
37. Waiting to Exhale - Loretta Devine's character runs a salon
38. Pleasantville - barber shop scenes
39 Full Metal Jacket

Thanks for clearing that up, Raggedy. What number are we aiming for?

BTW, I loved that scene in Waiting to Exhale too.

40. Chinatown

Full scene with Gittes in Barney's barber shop. He almost gets into a fight with the banker in the other chair.

41. The Untouchables

Capone gets a shave at the beginning of the movie in his personal barber shop in the Lexington Hotel.

About Hair, I remember they want to cut Woof's hair (the blond guy) in prison, but he refuses and that generates the title song in the film, but I do not think that was in some kind of prison barber shop either.

There is a very high density of hairdressing salons in Finland and Sweden, but it has not been reflected in film, for I cannot remember a single Finnish or Swedish film with barbershop scenes, isn't that odd?

Oh, but I just recalled a Polish film with hairdressers:
42. Trois Couleurs: Blanc (1994, Three Colours: White), the protagonist and his estranged wife are hairdressers

I was surprised we went beyond 70 with artists/painters. Let's see if we can get to 70 with beauty salons/barbershops. If we come to a standstill, I'll start the "C" subject.

Oooh, I just thought of one:

43. Roman Holiday - Audrey Heburn gets her hair cut by Italian barber

44. Educating Rita (the title character is a hairdresser)

Oooh. I liked that one, Wandeljw.

Recap:

B = Beauty Salon and Barber Shop scenes

1. Steel Magnolias
2. Barbershop
3. Beauty Shop
4. Soul Food
5. Poetic Justice
6 Married to the Mob
7. Shampoo
8. One Fine Day
9. Oceans Twelve
10. Moonstruck
11. Coming to America
12. The Shootist
13. The Godfather
14. Grease (Beauty School Dropout)
15. Legally Blonde
16. GI Jane
17. Runaway Bride
18 Five Car Stud
19. What's Love Got To Do With It
20. The Man Who Wasn't There
21. Memoirs of a Geisha
22. Le Marie de la Coiffeuse (1990, The Hairdresser's Husband), protagonist marries hairdresser
23. Fatou la Malienne (2001), protagonist is hairdresser
24. Fatou l'Espoir (2003), protagonist is hairdresser
25. De Vierde Man (1983, The Fourth Man), Renée Soutendijk owns beauty salon
26. Il Mio nome è Nessuno (1973, My Name is Nobody), Terence Hill gets a shave
27. Edward Scissorhands (1990), Johnny Depp is almost raped in a beauty salon
28. Kort Amerikaans (1979, Crew Cut), protagonist hates haircuts but is forced
29. The Crying Game (1992), Dill is a hairdresser
30. Italiensk for begyndere (2000, Italian for Beginners), one of the characters is a hairdresser
31. Say It Isn't So (2001), love interest is clumsy hairdresser
32. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin is a barber in the Ghetto)
33. Giant
34. Hands Across the Table (Carole Lombard's character is a manicurist in a barbershop
35. The Women (Crawford, Shearer, Russell, Goddard)
36. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1936 British film)
37. Waiting to Exhale - Loretta Devine's character runs a salon
38. Pleasantville - barber shop scenes
39. Full Metal Jacket
40. Chinatown
41. The Untouchables
42. Trois Couleurs: Blanc (1994, Three Colours: White), the protagonist and his estranged wife are hairdressers
43. Roman Holiday
44. Educating Rita

45. The Wizard of Oz?
Dorothy and the Lion have their hair done in a beauty salon if I remember correctly.

45. My Darling Clementine (1946)

Wyatt Earp gets a shave.

<sigh> I miss Gregory Hines. And Raul Julia too...


Sorry, no salon scenes to add at the moment.

In Little Women, when Jo sells her hair to raise money, is there a scene in any of the movie versions in which we see her hair being cut off? In the book, she describes to her family how she went into a barbershop and had it done, but the scene isn't described directly, we only hear about it through Jo's telling of it.

I miss Gregory Hines and Raul Julia, too, mac ...

My daughter just told me that Peter Boyle died.

No barber shop scene in the Hepburn version, bree. (Unless it was edited for TV)

How about this...
In "The Eyes of Laura Mars", there were several scenes where the models were having their hair styled before the photo shoot. Does that count?

Sure it counts. A hairdresser styled their hair.

46. The Eyes of Laura Mars

which for some strange reason made me think of:

47. The Boy With Green Hair - Dean Stockwell

48. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Bogart's character went to a barber shop in Tampico.