From hair to eternity: poll finds Brad Pitt's 'best cuts'
In recent years, thanks to revelatory turns in the likes of Moneyball, The Tree of Life and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Brad Pitt has finally turned into the actor he always promised to be. Add to this his exemplary clutch of films as producer and it's clear that we're dealing with a heavyweight; a true connoisseur of film. But despite all this, one nagging question lingers.
That's right: which is Brad Pitt's most iconic haircut?
No, seriously. Brad Pitt has made dozens of movies, for which he's required dozens of haircuts. By default, if nothing else, one of them has to be the most iconic. The question isn't as insulting or reductive as you think it is, either. Cast your mind back to all the greatest screen performances in cinema history De Niro in Taxi Driver, Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kid 'n Play in House Party 2 and it's clear they've all been aided by some exemplary hairdressing work.
But back to Brad Pitt. Thankfully perhaps because it knew that most people have been kept chronically awake at night for years, unable to stop wrestling with the idea of which Pitt haircut is the most snazzy LOVEFiLM has polled its users about this important issue. The winner, if you were wondering, is the haircut that Brad Pitt had in Seven.
Truly, we all owe LOVEFiLM a debt of gratitude for its sterling work here. At last, families torn apart by bitter, longstanding disagreements about whether Brad Pitt had better hair in Meet Joe Black or Interview with a Vampire can finally begin the painful process of reconciliation. Because it turns out that they were all wrong. In actual fact, the haircut that Brad Pitt had in Seven was the best Brad Pitt haircut. And perhaps North Korea will now abandon its nuclear armament program too, given that it only began building missiles after an argument with America about whether Brad Pitt had the best hair in Sleepers or Legends of the Fall got out of hand. T! he answe r is neither. The best Brad Pitt haircut, it turns out, was the haircut that Brad Pitt had in Seven.
Of course it was. How could we have all been so blind? Once you've seen what Brad Pitt's hair looked like in Seven, it cannot be forgotten. Short at the back. A bit longer on top. It is, unequivocally, a haircut for the ages.
But at least LOVEFiLM was also kind enough to pay tribute to the less iconic Brad Pitt haircuts. In second place was the haircut that Brad Pitt had in Ocean's Eleven, which you'll remember was short at the back and a bit longer on top. In third place was Brad Pitt's haircut in Fight Club, which broke the mould in revolutionary fashion by being short at the back and a bit longer on top. Pity Brad Pitt's haircut in Troy, though. It only scraped into ninth place with just 2% of the vote. It wasn't short at the back, you see. A fundamental mistake.
However, there can be no more arguments about Brad Pitt's most iconic haircut. The answer is clear for all to see. All we can do is salute a man that LOVEFiLM's editor Helen Cowley who almost certainly wasn't drunk or crying when she said this calls "a master of reinvention when it comes to his hair".
Needless to say, if there's ever a poll about the prettiest shoes Meryl Streep has ever worn, we'll bring you the results in just as much detail.
guardian.co.uk Guardian News and Media 2012
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