Why didn't Michael Caine dye his hair and get a mustache?

[tamron]

I'm not complaining, I was just curious if there was ever a reason given as to why Michael Caine didn't look more like comic Alfred. It's not like he can't pull the look off.


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[zer00]

My best guess?



Because

[Stringer]

cause they didnt want him to?

[Two-Face]

He doesn't look cool with a mustache.

[The Chairman]

Does it matter?

[Macphisto]

There was already far too much facial hair in the movie. Gordon, Fox, Ras, Ducard, Flass, Rachel ;)

[Two-Face]

Rachel? hahaha! LOL!

[Ronny Shade]

Michael Caine doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to.

Michael Caine owns you.

[Super_Ludacris]

Because at his age if he did he would look like the Pringle man falling on hard times

[darknight7]

What I don't get is why he didn't at LEAST dye his hair for the scenes when Bruce was a kid.

--dk7

[drunkhomer]

cuz he's michael caine :up: end of discussion..lol

[Two-Face]

Michael Caine doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to.

Michael Caine owns you.


Yes Micheal Caine owns you all.

[zer00]

What I don't get is why he didn't at LEAST dye his hair for the scenes when Bruce was a kid.

--dk7

He was more blonde.

But he seemed to be already pretty old then in the story. So...grey hair doesn't get greyer

[deathfromabove]

the same reason bruce's dad wasnt a mustache wearing alpha male, the bamobile didnt have fins and there was no yellow oval on bat's chest. nolan wanted his version to stand apart from what had gone before. he wanted to reference the look of the comics as little as possible.

btw, i thought bruce's dad was perfect and caine as alfred was brilliant.

[TheGrayGhost]

Comic Alfred has a mustache?

[Ronny Shade]

Thomas Wayne was brilliant. Where'd they get that guy? He was a perfect dad for Bale. I saw a resemblence.

[Cats]

He made me forget that Alfred was supposed to have a moustache.

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Cause he's the Goddamn Michael Caine.

[Lead Cenobite]

He's like Jimmy Olsen. Jimmy's really a redhead, but he's always dark haired in the live action movies and shows. Live action Alfred always has white hair.

[Evil Mind]

Originally Posted by darknight7
What I don't get is why he didn't at LEAST dye his hair for the scenes when Bruce was a kid.

--dk7

It was a bit strange that he looked almost exactly the same in the flashback scenes as he did in later ones. Alfred is described in the novelization as being sixty-something by the time Bruce becomes Batman, so that would make him forty-something when the Waynes were killed. Yet, aside from a slight change in hair color, he looks exactly the same after twenty years have supposedly elapsed.
Minor issue. Michael Caine still owns.

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

what are you, retarded?

[El Payaso]

Why? Because he thinks that people age in 20 years?

[David Ford, RPD]

Thomas Wayne was brilliant. Where'd they get that guy? He was a perfect dad for Bale. I saw a resemblence.

A great British actor named Linus Roache. He played RFK in a great TV movie.

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Yeah, he was good.

[Phaser]

Nolan: Michael, how about that hair dye and moustache now?
Caine:Nevah!

[Ronny Shade]

Nolan: Michael, how about that hair dye and moustache now?
Caine:Nevah!
LOL.


Regarding Thomas Wayne. I wouldn't have given that guy much thought, as he doesn't exactly coincide with the thick, square-jawed, heavily mustachioed Thomas Wayne I am used to from the comics and TAS. However, given his resemblence to Bale he was fantastic.

[Soundwave88]

lol I bet he said that

[Caliber]

I'm not complaining, I was just curious if there was ever a reason given as to why Michael Caine didn't look more like comic Alfred. It's not like he can't pull the look off.


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Because he didn't need to.

[CConn]

Because he didn't need to.Caine doesn't need anything. :cool:

Except his pants. :cool:

[Morgoth]

I'm not complaining, I was just curious if there was ever a reason given as to why Michael Caine didn't look more like comic Alfred. It's not like he can't pull the look off.


http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2893/dirtyrottenscoundrelsjpg4zm.jpgI think they should've, after all Gordon looked like how he does in the books, I'm surprised they didn't do the same with Alfie, and they could've at least dyed his hair for the flash backs.

[Horror Business]

caine was good enough without the hair dye and mustache.

[Ming]

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POW! Michael Caine knocks this thread flat on it's ass.

Thread: "But....why?"

Caine: " I'm Michael Caine."

Thread faints

[Ronny Shade]

Caine doesn't need anything. :cool:

Except his pants. :cool:
What are you talking about. Michael Caine doesn't need pants.

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Well.....I think it helps.

[ShadowBoxing]

I don't really care whether he does or doesn't...his acting defined that role well enough

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I was actually talking about the pants. It helps if he has them on, otherwise..who would take him serious?

Other than Ronny, that is.

[zer00]

Caine doesn't need pants

His pores grow cotton

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I hear Caine owns a Tea Planation.......for more information....read this:

I. Well hello there Unscrewed Army!
Martin Sargent August 10th, 2005
I’ve finally returned from living on Michael Caine’s 1000 acre tea plantation in Ceylon, and except for that whole tsunami business and a few other wrinkles, it kicked major ass. Lots of exotic birds, for one! Joey the Intern and I pretty much had the run of the place because Michael was always busy starring in movies and stuff. He’s such a talent. Very creative.

When MC was around, he, Joey and I spent our days writing one act plays and performing them for the native children. It was during one of these plays, in which Joey was portraying a talking cat named Lil’Pepper that the native children started worshipping him as a god.

From then on, wherever Joey went, the native children followed, offering him a wide range of local fruits and nuts and anointing his feet with palm oils. It was cute at first, but got increasingly creepy. Unaccustomed to the attention, Joey’s ego began to swell. Soon, fruits and nuts would no longer satisfy him, and Joey began demanding freshly butchered meats and the affection of virgins.

Now Michael Caine is a great host—that whole English hospitality thing really shone through—but for every virgin smearing palm oil on Joey’s fluttering, bird-like chest, that’s one less person tending to the rigorous daily demands of a 1000 acre tea plantation. Understandably, something had to give.

MC had just finished starring in a London stage biopic of Stevie Ray Vaughn when he returned to find Joey ordering a virgin to slaughter a calf in the observatory. Now if you have any understanding of MC’s passion for astronomy and his respect for the mysteries of the cosmos, you’d know that as far as he’s concerned, such behavior is absolutely unacceptable on his 1000 acre tea plantation. With the agility of Ceylonese panther, MC grabbed a brass telescope and smashed Joey’s femur. I will never forget the sound of Joey’s thighbone shattering, reminiscent as it was of a Greyhound bus driving full speed through a Pottery Barn. Joey went down, but not before he let out some unholy tribal yelp of clicks and clucks.

He was summoning the children.

In the space of time it took Tom Cruise to destroy his career on Oprah, the observatory was filled with tiny heathens, creeping like a swarm of wingless Ceylonese tea hornets towards a shuddering Michael Caine.

Great god, right there in front of my unbelieving eyes, the children devoured Michael Caine!

Who knew sixty rows of malnourished baby teeth could do such swift and complete damage? When they had finished their unholy repast, only a pair of black horn-rimmed glasses lay where Michael Caine once stood on the observatory floor.

As thirty pairs of sinful brown eyes slowly shifted their gaze to me, I knew the blissful nine months I had spent living on Michael Caine’s 1000 acre tea plantation were over. I lunged for Joey’s prone body, and despite his demonic shrieks demanding that I leave him among his people—the only people who had ever treated this hideous little man with anything but malice and scorn—I slung him over my shoulder like a sack of tea leaves and ran straight through the night to the seaport, Joey cursing my soul every heavy step of the way.

It was time to board a clipper ship and sail back to Los Angeles, The Big Glitter Bowl, The Stardust Rodeo, and reclaim my rightful station in life as a Television star. It is a new adventure, Unscrewed Army, an adventure that I cordially invite you to join me on. I have missed you, and begging your forgiveness, will never stray again.

Televsion’s Martin Sargent has returned!

[zer00]

I read none of that

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Oh hey, you changed your avatar........not as cool as the other one though......

So....I guess this is the NEW "Vanessa Lan for Catwoman" thread meet......since the other one was horribly murdered.

[Ronny Shade]

Yeah what happened, exactly?

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I guess that final picture of Vanessa Lane stretching her leg behind her head was too much.

Damn sissies......lmao.

[Mr. Socko]

Good question....Wish I had an answer.

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Sigh.......yeah.....me too.

Maybe someday.....someday someone will try again. Maybe someday..someone will get the smart idea of wanting a pornstar for a major superhero part in an upcoming superhero film.....and, we'll be there to support they're half-cocked, crazyiness....because we too believe.

[mcflytrap]

mustaches are very 70's porn star

that's why

[Lead Cenobite]

lol

I think it's because of Michael Gough's popularity as Alfred. People think of him now as an old, white headed man rather than a middle aged, balding man with a moustache.

[theMan-Bat]

Rachel? hahaha! LOL!

Oh yeah, Rachel had a beard!

[Batty for Bats!]

because Michael Caine sucks! looney ass old man he is. he prolly shat himself whenever they asked him anything dealing with everything. cause you know, old people tend to shat themselves alot.

[Two-Face]

because Michael Caine sucks! looney ass old man he is. he prolly shat himself whenever they asked him anything dealing with everything. cause you know, old people tend to shat themselves alot.


CAINE owns you!

[Mr. Socko]

lol

I think it's because of Michael Gough's popularity as Alfred. People think of him now as an old, white headed man rather than a middle aged, balding man with a moustache.

I agree, even I always picture Alfred as an old man with white/grey hair.