Hair (film)

Hair is a 1979 American-German music film directed by Miloš Forman. The film is based on the eponymous Theatre musical from 1969, but contains essential differences.The film was nominated for the César for best non-French-speaking movie and for both the Golden Globe for best musical/comedy and for best new actor (Treat Williams).Hair actually won the Premi David di Donatello for Best Director and best film music. ==Story[ Edit] == Claude Hooper Bukowski is a country boy from Oklahoma who is called upon by the u.s. Army to serve in the Viet Nam war. He travels a few days before he has to report in its neat well to New York to first just a couple of days to view the city. There he walks on the street bump into a group of hippies led by George Berger the Extrovert. He and his friends Woof Daschund, Hud and Jeannie Ryan Johnson live a life that is completely new for Claude. They wander around in the street, broke his pacifist stand perfectly set up and complete freedom of sexuality, drug use and expression for. Berger and his friends taking Claude to the last days before he in tow in all their habits.

Because Berger has seen how Claude to the chic Sheila Franklin looked when that with her family at the horseback riding was, he goes with Claude and his friends on the way to her home to uninvited at a party held there to appear. Sheilas father demands that the group are neat game of leaves, but the police must come to relieve the group involved. They came nevertheless only a party building, albeit undesirable. Sheila is well impressed. Claude has just enough money to buy for one person to pay the fine at the police station that Berger and smoking. Who goes first to Sheila for money to pay the fines of the others, but then pulls the required amount with his mother. After Berger has purchased by the outstanding free everyone paying fines, he takes everyone along to a peace demonstration in the park. In addition, Sheila look them up and she goes with them.

Berger finds the ridiculous war and admonishes Claude not to go. Who finds it is nevertheless important to fight for his homeland and is going to just sign up. He is medically approved and then to a military training camp brought in Nevada . There he writes a letter to Sheila. Because those who comes to Berger also shows, that found out that Claude is in Nevada. He wants to look up as a surprise him there along with the others. ' Hud ' turns without affecting the others knew to have a fiancee and a son, who have detected him. He wants they actually send away and nothing more with his old life, but Berger finds that he cannot make that and also takes them in the car in the direction of Nevada. The military police there want to not allow the little group on the base. Therefore adorns Sheila in a bar near a sergeant. As soon as they stole his clothes, is gives them the uniform sergeants to Berger. Who can still drive the basis.

With the uniform and sunglasses on ' sergeant Berger recommends to "Claude to come out. That recognizes it there only. Berger wants him comes along to the others to meet, but Claude may not because the number of people present the terrain constantly controlled. Berger therefore with him changes of uniform. Claude may thereby in the Sergeant's drill uniform as of land off while Berger occupies its place in as long as Claude at the others. Only while Berger get the soldiers themselves for Claude spend, suddenly ordered to Viet Nam within three minutes to stand ready to be flown. Berger is still trying to make it clear that he doesn't belong there, but without naming Claudes.He gets off the plane in anyway and dies on 6 april 1968 at the age of 22 in Viet Nam. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==

Differences with the musical

 * In the musical is already a hippie Claude for he met the others.
 * In the musical is also a hippie Sheila and she falls in love with Claude Berger, not on.
 * Claude dies in Viet Nam In the musical, not Berger.
 * Eight songs that were in the original musical sit, do not appear in the film version. Others Sung songs changed to background music.
 * The songs are mostly adapted and changed compared to the theatre of interpreter implementation, because this is the better makers came out in connection with the movie plot.