Movie
1979
Hair is a 1979 musical anti-war comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman and adapted for the screen by Michael Weller, based on the 1968 Broadway musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. Set against the backdrop of the hippie counterculture of the Vietnam era, the film focuses on a Vietnam War draftee who meets and befriends a "tribe" of hippies while en route to the army induction center. The hippies…
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When the counterculture first appeared in the 1960s, Hollywood initially tried to exploit it without really understanding the phenomenon. It took some time and critical distance for Hollywood filmmakers to start seriously exploring the dramatic social changes of that period. It took even more distance for the real and psychological wounds of the Vietnam War fiasco to be properly assessed and captured on the big scre…More
