Despite the best efforts of a couple of well-meaning and enthusiastic friends, I still do not get the appeal of anime, i.e., Japanese animated films. I also don’t get — aside from a handful of titles — manga, or Japanese comic books.
But I very definitely do see the appeal of Kirsten Dunst dressed in some kind of anime princess outfit as she wanders the streets of Tokyo’s infamous geek mecca, the Akihabara district:
Yeah, now that’s a pretty sight. Kirsten hasn’t exactly lived up to the hype of a few years ago that painted her as the Next Big Thing, but I like her. And I really like her in this get-up. The short skirt and the stockings are nice, of course, but weird as it sounds, I’m really grooving on the blue hair. I don’t know, it just works for me.
From what I can discern, this photo is a behind-the-scenes candid from a video shoot. An artist named Murakami, in association with Hollywood director McG, filmed a short starring Dunst for an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Modern art is, of course, something else I do not get. But whatever, I can live with it if it gets me pics of Kirsten Dunst in a tiny skirt and blue hair. More photos and info here; original source for this here.
Do I have to go back to work now?
I’m not attracted to either Kirsten Dunst or the anime princess look, but the combination of the two is strangely appealing. A double negative?
Heh, perhaps.
Of course, I like the young lady even when she doesn’t have blue hair. One of my guilty pleasures is a movie about cheerleaders she made a few years ago, with the equally lovely Eliza Dushku…
Yeah, I’m a dirty old man. So who isn’t? 🙂
Yeah, I was made to watch that movie a couple of times on video (don’t ask). Is Eliza Dushku the brunette who played opposite Kirsten Dunst? If so . . . purrrr.
Yep, that would be Eliza. She’s mostly worked in television, which is perhaps why you don’t know her name. She was a semi-regular on Buffy the Vampire Slayer a few years ago (she played another Slayer named Faith who was intended — quite literally, given her complexion — to be a darker version of the title character), and she’s currently starring in a series called Dollhouse. Which unfortunately seems to be on the verge of cancellation…