Movies with Ridiculous Hats

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I was watching the TV miniseries Dune last night on DVD, and Pepper Mill commented “Oh, yeah. That’s the one with the weird hats.” It is. They went out of their way to give everyone in this film the most outsized, ridiculous hats imaginable.
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This got me to thinking that there seem to be some movies that just attract weird hats. Another example: The 1960 George Pal movie Atlantis: The Lost Continent. The excellent Bad-Movie site “And You Call Yourself a Scientist” goes out of its way to criticize the headgear in this one:

To which I’d add Jack Palance’s “Split Buter-Top Loaf” hat (as MST3K called it) in Outlaw of Gor and his other hats:

Aside from possibly Shirley MacLaine in What a Way to Go!, I can’t think of others. Anybody?

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Maybe someone will make The 500 hats of Bartholomew Cubbins :smiley:

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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The prime offender, Queen Amidala, wore an endless array of ridiculous headgear. Here’s a few of 'em.

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Terry Gilliam’s Brazil has some deliberately horrid headgear. Check out the bill on Bob Hoskins’ cap and the shoe on Kathryn Helmond’s head as she talks to her lampshade-wearing friend.

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On the plus side, an honourable mention ought to go to Miller’s Crossing. It’s hats, hats, hats all the way down.

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It’s not a movie, but the first thing I thought of when reading the title was Firefly’s The Message.

“That hat makes you look ridiculous.”

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Not actually a movie, but. . .
I always thought it was odd to see the headgear that John Phillips used to wear. Seems an unlikely choice for Southern California.

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You win.

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Harry’s hat in Jaws.

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The horse race scene in My Fair Lady as some awesome ladies head gear.

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“Pick a Little” from “The Music Man.”

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Only Angels Have Wings remains one of the greatest adventure movies ever made, but even I’ll concede that Cary Grant’s hat is a little distracting.

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No way. The off-the-wall headgear in the TV Dune has thatr beat hollow. I just couldn’t find any pictures.

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The first thing I thought of was:

What’s that? A hat?
Crazy, funky, junky hat?
Overslept, hair unsightly,
Tryin, to look like Keira Knightly?
We’ve been there, we’ve done that-
We see right through your funky hat!

(Some of you with young children will probably understand.)

The second thing I thought of was Roger Ebert’s review of Mulholland Falls, with its wonderful Bulwer-Lytton worthy intro: “They were called the Hat Squad. They were four beefy middle-age guys who drove around in a black Buick convertible, wearing fedoras and chain-smoking, and throwing guys, mostly bad guys, over cliffs.”

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Ridiculous, yes. But I think most would say that’s some bad hat, Harry.

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Oh, yeah – another one. John Gielgud’s hat when he played Chang in the 1973 Ross Hunter musical version of Lost Horizon. An awful movie by many standards, but that hat was so bad that the Mad satire devoted a panel to it.

(John Gielgud? Playing Chang??? I suppose they figured his squint made him look oriental, because he certainly had no makeup for his eyes.)

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Neil Innes’s Duck Hat (first photo) from The Seventh Python

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Here’s one of princess Irulan’s hats from the TV version of Dune:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shaddam%2BIrulan-Giannini%2BCox.jpg
Looking at the pictures reminds me that, although not as ridiculous as in the TV version, the headgear in Lynch’s 1984 movie Dune as still pretty much out there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paul%2BMohiam%2BTheBox.jpg

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Fear Of A Black Hat

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I saw a lot of ridiculous hats (all on ladies) in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.