Sirius/Oldman's tatoos & hair

[alshainofthenorth]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Marci" <blackgold101 at y...> wrote:

> I agree about the tattoos.  My beef lies with his hair.  It should be 
> a lot longer.  He's been in prison for 12 years.  Where's stringy?  
> Where are the dreads?  It's too short.  His clothes are dirty and 
> torn, but his hair is nicely cut and conditioned.  LOL  He doesn't 
> look scary, menacing.  Perhaps he broke into someone's house and 
> washed and cut his hair??

Doesn't look washed and ut in the official version.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/images/2003/08/PoAHiResShriekShack.jpg

I'd have liked the hair longer too, but I'm not going to worry
overmuch about it. The waist-length tangle Sirius is shown wearing in
PoA looks better (not better, obviously, but you know what I mean)
seen with the mental eye than on screen, where it might just look
corny. When filming FotR the make-up team had some difficulty with
Gandalf's beard and eyebrows, he's described in the books as having
eyebrows so bushy they peek out from under the rim of his hat. It
looked stupid on screen, so they were downsized.

Is there an expert on hair growth in the audience, BTW? I recall
having read somewhere that hair doesn't grow as fast on males as on
females and that it won't grow as long.

Alshain