I loved the long hair because like Dancin, I only knew that hairstyle because I got into Rent because of the movie.When I saw him on the Today Show, I immediately fell in love w/ his short hair. I like his short hair more.
gertrude- Concerning the long hair...(from the Rent movie blog)
Jose: From the standpoint of someone who has lived the "Rent" experience, what are your thoughts on some of the nuances and changes that have been made, both artistically and visually (i.e. the new "long haired" look for Roger, showing instead of implying the riot, etc.)? Do you feel as if this is something that, if he were here to helm the project, Jonathan would have chosen to update and incorporate?
Adam: I don't think anyone knows what Jonathan would or would not have done. We can only proceed with the purest intentions, and stay as true to what the essence of Rent is. What the essence of Rent is not though, is the length of Roger's hair, or changing one location to another. Those are incidentals that get adjusted to fit the medium in which the story of Rent is being told. Just to put it in perspective, Roger's blond hair in the show was only that way because that was my hair when I got the job. I would say that is true for most of the original cast.
Jonathan never had a physical image of these characters that we were trying to match... we became the physical image. For the film, Chris Columbus and I felt that Roger should look a bit more "earthy"... less "cartoony." More Bruce Springsteen, less Johnny Rotten.
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, take the moment & making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
-Gilda Radner