The saying "the haircut makes the man" may not ring very true in everyday life, but in movies, it's basically the law. There are countless film characters who you see fleshed out by their choices of hairstyle, whether it be Val Kilmer in "Top Gun" deciding to make Iceman's haircut as ridiculous and douchey as possible, or the extremely strange and off-putting haircut of the cold-hearted killer Anton Chigurh in "No Country for Old Men."
The William Foster character in "Falling Down" is no exception. Going into filming, they had most of Foster's appearance down. He'd wear tight, repressive clothing, wear glasses, and carry a briefcase. But they didn't know what they were doing with his hair until the hairdresser on set made a suggestion, which, as Douglas explained, really finally gave him a sense of the character:
"It's amazing sometimes how the haircut can make the man, and the haircut came and all of a sudden the whole character came together. I had a sense of somebody of this military background, maybe he'd been in the service at one time. Somebody who worked in the defense industry ... I also had a sense for the guy, that he gave me a feeling of like the late 50's and the early 60's, and somehow my character, you kind of had the feeling that he came from another time, or he wished for another time when things made sense. When somebody's job was worthwhile [and] you had a purpose in life."
Things like hair and wardrobe and makeup can sometimes be overlooked in filmmaking, but examples like this show how those aesthetic choices play an important part in the symphony that is a film. No contribution is too small, and when someone like Michael Douglas takes suggestions from the hairdresser, fascinating things can happen.
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