movie hats that inspired you...

[bowlerman]

bumping this one again. I just got back from taking my daughter to see The Lone Ranger. She only wanted to see Johnny Depp, but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Right up my alley as it's set in the American Old West. 1870s-80s for the most part, I think.

Lots of super hats (I did spy one or two cheap wool-looking ones), both modern and vintage, and Stetson Hat Company was credited-- specially thanked-- at the end.

As always, I was enamored with the bowlers, especially the ones in the undyed natural color scheme, but Armie Hammer's white hat played a starring role, and I must have been the only person in the theater who couldn't help but laugh when Depp took the high center-creased hat and "karate chopped" it so that it immediately came back with the perfectly formed classic teardrop. Very funny! No double teardrops that I could see.

 

[Denton]

In Moonrise (1948), Allyn Joslyn wears as pretty a thin ribbon as I have ever seen.

 

[barrowjh]

Bowlerman, I noticed the one-whack teardrop also. I also liked the ribbing Armie (LR) got about the hat from the other rangers as the doomed patrol started out, 'They didn't have a bigger one?' or something to that effect, as the hat was wearing LR more than LR was wearing the hat. No matter how much dust and dirt - the hat is always a glowing white.

Movie was a bit over the top, set in texas, they ride through monument valley (NE Arizona, 4 corners region) on the way to lofty mountain heights (aint no mountains in texas), and it all seems to be within a day's ride. The winding canyon where the rangers were massacred - I've seen so many massacres and ambushes in that same canyon - its been in as many movies as monument valley has been in new car commercials. The river that the train eventually plunges into appears to be maybe a foot deep, but is as deep as the ocean in that crash scene.

Still, I loved it. The line - after Tonto grabs LR's drink and chugs it - 'Commanche tradition show of respect - taste another man's drink' and the answer to LR's question at the end - Kemo Sabe - what does that mean? and Tonto mutters 'wrong brother' yet again. I believe there was a thow-back to Dead Man, I think I heard one line about 'stupid ?? white men'. One of the pirates (the skinny one with the eye that was always popping out) is in Butch's gang as an outlaw with a fetish for lingere, comic relief role. We should probably start a separate thread about all the gags in this movie.

 

[barrowjh]

I just went back through this thread looking at all the favorite stars, and in so many of the pictures the hat is worn very high on the forehead. These men were all handsome - not their only claim to fame, of course, but certainly a contributing factor. The producers were selling those facial shots, so I believe the scenes are a bit unreal in that respect, most of us are not going to wear our hats that high.

 

[Zombie_61]

I just went back through this thread looking at all the favorite stars, and in so many of the pictures the hat is worn very high on the forehead...most of us are not going to wear our hats that high.

Most, but not all. I only have one fedora currently, but I find it's usually most comfortable when the front of the sweatband is resting at the top of my forehead similar to the way Barney Barnwell is wearing his in the photo that RBH posted here...

...and I tend to wear my flat caps the same way. It might be unusual, but it's not entirely unrealistic.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

The hat that inspired me the most, before any other:

--dixon cannon

 

[Banky]

Bowlerman asked me to post my rendition of the Tom Hardy lawless hat here some time ago, even pm'd me and I forgot all about it. I didn't take a new picture, this is recycled from the VS hall of fame thread, but here it is. It's a VS custom. I think Art did a damn good job, me doing my best to look like a hard ass perhaps not so much.

 

[Andarius]

There is a new indie movie out I saw this weekend on Netflix called Straight A's with Ryan Phillippe. The movie was a little dry but he sported a nice broken in hat throughout. Note: NOT a period movie. Anybody seen it? Have any ideas on what the hat started as? (I can't post pics, still too new)

 

[bowlerman]

Watching lonesome dove for the first time. So many iconic lids in there! I'm particularly impressed by Chris Cooper wearing that open crown hat he could probably crawl inside. Wow!

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[Hercule]

I just went back through this thread looking at all the favorite stars, and in so many of the pictures the hat is worn very high on the forehead. These men were all handsome - not their only claim to fame, of course, but certainly a contributing factor. The producers were selling those facial shots, so I believe the scenes are a bit unreal in that respect, most of us are not going to wear our hats that high.

Maybe so, and as you allude there were undoubtedly cinematic and promotional reasons for wearing hats high, but for the common man I think there's a modern tendency to wear hats that are too big and sit too low. Compare with the many hat shots found on Shorpy, I dare say there aren't many where the hat is sitting on the ears. Admittedly it's a hard observation to make, after all why would someone wear a hat where it wasn't comfortable or thought it looked its best?

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

Every time I watch TCM, I spend the entire time online looking for hats, lol. I watched "Dance Girl, Dance" yesterday with the gorgeous Lucille Ball, whose beauty I believe has always been underrated, and the hats were giving me heart palpitations LOL!

 

[T Jones]

Though I'm not a fan of black hats this one worn by the one eyed "Cap" Hatfield in History Channel's "Hatfields & McCoys" did interest me, (a lot of nice lids in that movie). I wonder how my black Akubra Squatter would look with this color ribbon?

 

[bond]

Bogarts beat up fedora in "Treasure of Sierra Madre". He wears it like its an extension of himself.

 

[DougC]

Funniest thing I read in this forum is that Texas doesn't have mountains-El Paso hasn't been given to New Mexico yet and those that run through town and through eastern NM. Then there are the Davis mountains that are admittedly hillish...

 

[RBH]

Billy Bob Thornton looking very Bogart like in 'The Man Who Wasn't There'

 

[Neophyte]

Quite a few nice fedoras in 1940's Strike Up the Band. Can't seem to find any pics online though.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Another recent film that inspired me somewhat...

http://gangstersquad.warnerbros.com/#gallery

 

[The Fedorable]

Mine was mainly from my cousin. Though watching Mad Men and playing LA Noire fueled that to get a real fedora, rather the Walmart/Target trilby's. So now it's Frank Sinatra, Don Draper, the cast of Gangster Squad, 42, Cole Phelps and Indiana Jones. I try to wear my hat as classy as Sinatra and Draper while doing the Indiana Jones with it and pretty much wearing it everywhere and anywhere.

 

[Rogera]

Bogarts beat up fedora in "Treasure of Sierra Madre". He wears it like its an extension of himself.

Now that this thought is out there, is that the same hat that he wore in several other older movies like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon? It sure looks just like it. The ribbon, the way the brim looks and the crown. It looks like it was naturally weathered from years of wear and not Hollywood weathered.

 

[RBH]

White Hunter Black Heart