There are many reasons why "Harry Potter and Gablet of Fire" is one of the more controversial films in the series (though that Performed pretty well in the official ranking of the film franchise.) It's a movie that struggles to fit its source a source of 750+ pages in a movie, and it's where Ron comes out as if it looks like totally unusual. However, one of the biggest complaints is far more minor: what happens to the hair?

Almost every male character in this film has long hair for seemingly no reason. It would be one if it were only Harry, whose book colleague had a well -documented tendency to long messy hair, but why Ron? Why Neville? Why Weasley's twins? (Only SEAMUS AND Dean were spared the trend.) And more importantly, why don't they have this long hair in any other movie? "Goblet of Fire" begins in 1994 - was there anything in British culture that could lead to this? Were all the barbers of the nation on strike?

The real reason for the change was far desirable. As Daniel Radcliffe explained (who played Harry) In the 2021 documentary "Return to Hogwarts":

"My one bone to choose with (director) Mike Elluell is that every year we left for the movie ... they said" didn't shorten the hair in the summer. 'LLE shorten it when we come back and we will decide what we want to do. " Both I and I, both of us, and both of us, we both increased our hair for months and then entered. He (Elluell) was like "Oh, yes, great!" And we were like "No, we don't leave us like this? So I think we were quite destroyed because we realized it was. "

Radcliffe's story actually differs a bit from a popular rumor for the film. The story is usually said that the director was simply unaware that children were told to grow their hair from the break and that it was his job to decide on a new hairstyle for them. I've always been confused by that explanation - the whole problem seems to be solved by some basic communication by one of the hundreds of people involved in production - that's why the Radcliffe events version feels more reliable. It makes more sense that Mike Elluell just preferred long hair.

Although Aliel thought the actors' hair looked great, Rupert Grint (played by Ron) shared Radcliffe's feelings. "My hair in the movie four is one of my biggest regret," he said in A. 2021 Podcast Interview. "The length of the shoulder, I had my hair down here and I was like" I don't know ". I think everyone actually had a phase of this really long hair. "

That last sentence catches a common defense of the "Goblet of Fire" hairstyles: Many guys with typically short hair often have a stage where they grow, so it is appropriate that there will be a year when Harry and Ron go through that stage.

You can also make the case that long hair is well mixed with the loosening, a carefree time in which the gang is most of this film. The other Harry Potter films are defined by the rise of the returned fascist Voldemort, whose rule of terror coincides with the return of much shorter, conservative coded hairstyles for all the main characters. It feels like a "Goblet of Fire" catches the vibrations of the 1970s Much darker "Phoenix order" He throws everyone into tighter, shorter hairstyles from the 50's.

The other defense of the "Goblet of Fire" hairstyles is that long hair helps to mask the aging of the actors. There is a reason why so many actors playing high school faces are styled with a similar long, heavy haircut: it helps to cover up the actor's mature hair. Even if a guy is not considered, it is very common for their hair to pull up a little in early maturity. This is often one of the clearest indicators of a guy's age, as he passes from high -heeled teenagers into the early twenties, and that's the main thing the stylist would like to cover up.

It's no surprise that it was only with the "order of Phoenix" Harry's aging jokes It really started to get down in pop culture. Short hair in "Phoenix" has called attention to the fact that Radcliffe has now been noticeable for several years older than his film mate, a fact that has become more difficult to ignore as the franchise lasted. Certainly wasn't a big deal - Children Aging of "Stranger Things" today is far more comfortable - But it definitely helps to redeem the long "Goblet of Fire" hairstyles.

That long hair may have looked a little uncomfortable and messy, but it comes to represent a light, more childish time in the life of the characters. Like most elements of Potter's early films that have given later films, it is difficult not to go back to long hair.