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Title: Short film challenges 'scarred baddies' stereotype
Subject: A short film has been created to challenge movie attitudes toward facial disfigurement.
Date:
13 April 2012
Summary:
"We're so used to seeing people with disfigurements portrayed as the
villain in films that it may be hard for people to imagine they could
ever play someone's friend, the Dad picking up his kids from school, the
US President, or a lover," says James Partridge, founder of Changing
Faces. To challenge this stereotypical reaction to people with facial disfigurements, the foundation Changing Face has created a movie that features a scarred hero for a change. The foundation wants to introduce a new, more creative way of using actors with disfigurements instead of typecasting them as villains. The movie is intended to encourage audiences and
the wider film industry to think about how disfigurement can be
portrayed in a more balanced way.
Opinion:
I think this is a brilliant idea, people with disfigurements should not be treated differently just because they look different. Other then the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame, I really could not think of any movie where there was a badly scarred hero, but there are countless bad guys with disfigurements. This way, we only see disfigured actors as the evil villains and that image seeps through to our everyday life. I also feel that the strongest point they make is not that the film industry should stop using scarred baddies, but to be more open, more creative with using disfigured actors to create a more balanced way of showing such actors.
A few disfigured protagonists would be "The elephant man", the character Kyle in "Beastly" (a modern day beauty and the (sexy?)beast, yes they made that crap)disfigured with cgi and make up but still. And that girl from "Transformers", could be just me but I think her face is just weird. Hollywood has been using more fat people recently but I think we can all agree that the film industry is completely mental anyway.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI totally agree. Films tend to use all sorts of stereotypes and this is one of them. It would be even better if all the stereotypes could disappear, but this is a great step. It might also be a good idea to stop putting so much make-up on actors. I would like more ugly people in films, not necessarily scarred, just boring normal humans the way we know them.
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