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Old 04-16-2012, 04:42 AM   #1
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Here's an issue that I haven't ever really given much thought to:

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Some 750 cinemas across the UK will be running a short film to challenge movie attitudes to facial disfigurement.

The one-minute film, starring Downtown Abbey's Michelle Dockery and Leo Gormley, will be shown ahead of feature films at Odeon cinemas for a fortnight.

"We are not suggesting that no villain has a scar, we're just saying, let's be more creative about this," said Alison Rich, of charity Changing Faces.

"It's just become a very lazy shorthand for film-makers," she adds.

"Without saying or doing anything, an actor with a scar can walk on screen and audiences are attuned to thinking 'there's a baddie'," Ms Rich, who is heading up the Face Equality on Film Campaign, told BBC News.

"And that portrayal sets up a moral judgement that extends to the wider world... to the playground, and to the job market."


This suggests that the issue is one that needs addressing;

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According to Changing Faces, one in every 111 people in the UK has a significant disfigurement to their face.

Yet a 2008 survey suggested that 90% of people find in difficult to attach positive qualities to people with disfigurements.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17702160
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Old 04-16-2012, 12:19 PM   #2
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That's prolly a good thing. The Face Equality on Film thing, that is...
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Old 04-17-2012, 02:15 PM   #3
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I dunno if you'd call him a hero, but Omar was no villain, I'd say. Best scar-faced motherfucker on TV.
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Old 04-17-2012, 02:29 PM   #4
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I dunno if you'd call him a hero, but Omar was no villain, I'd say. Best scar-faced motherfucker on TV.
I was thinking of him too. My favorite guy on the wire.
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...then you get a really cool assault rifle with a grenade launcher!
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Old 04-18-2012, 11:50 AM   #7
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"It's just become a very lazy shorthand for film-makers," she adds.
Has she ever watched a film...?
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