Hair is a 1979 film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same title about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their environment of marijuana, LSD, and unorthodox relationships.
The film was directed by Miloš Forman, who was nominated for a César Award for his work on the film. Cast members include Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D'Angelo, Don Dacus of the rock band Chicago, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Nell Carter, Ellen Foley, Charlotte Rae as well as Johnny Maestro, Jim Rosica and Fred Ferrara of the rock group The Brooklyn Bridge, and The Stylistics. Dance scenes were choreographed by Twyla Tharp and performed by the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation. The film was nominated for a Best Picture Golden Globe Award, and Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe as New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male.
In this adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, a naive farm boy from Oklahoma named Claude Hooper Bukowski (John Savage) heads to New York City to enter the Army and serve in the Vietnam War. In Central Park, he meets a troupe of free-spirited hippies led by a young man named George Berger (Treat Williams), who introduce him to a debutante named Sheila Franklin (Beverly D'Angelo) when they crash a dinner party at her home. Inevitably, Claude is sent off to boot camp in Nevada, but Berger and his band of merry pranksters including Woof Daschund (Don Dacus), LaFayette "Hud" Johnson (Dorsey Wright) and Jeannie Ryan (Annie Golden) follow him. Sheila flirts with an off-duty Sergeant in order to steal his uniform, which she gives to Berger. He uses it to extract Claude from the base for a last meeting with Sheila, taking his place, but while Claude is away, the unit flies out to Vietnam, taking Berger with them.
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True to the ethereal quality of the song the movie sequence for Comfortably Numb is one of the most rich and symbolically complex pieces in the film Though the episode starts ordinarily enough by faithfully depicting the first verse in which Pink s manager and medics break into the room to find Pink in a drug induced stupor the sequence soon becomes a bit more dense with the induction of the first chorus As Pink sings of his childhood memories the screen is filled with the familiar shot of Pink running across the rugby field and stopping in front of the camera Just as Goodbye Cruel World expanded this same shot from When the Tigers Broke Free Part 1 Comfortably Numb continues the sequence past its predecessors showing Pink from another angle as he circles a spot on the ground and then bends to pick up a wounded rat from the grass Pink takes the rat home shows it to his mother and is shooed from the house by the startled woman who backs away from the rodent He then…
