British Film Institute to no longer fund films with scarred villains

[Captain Flint]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...arred-villains


"The British Film Institute will no longer fund films in which villains appear with facial scarring.

As part of a campaign by Changing Faces, a UK charity campaigning to end discrimination against people with visible differences, the BFI has pledged to support their I Am Not Your Villain initiative, which focuses on ending the use of “scars, burns or marks as shorthand for villainy”.

Ben Roberts, film fund director at the BFI, said in a statement: “Film has such a powerful influence on society … [and] also is a catalyst for change and that is why we are committing to not having negative representations depicted through scars or facial difference in the films we fund … This campaign speaks directly to the criteria in the BFI Diversity Standards which call for meaningful representations on screen ... and [we] urge the rest of the film industry to do the same.”


In the age of meaningless and dumb Twitter movements, this is by far one of the stupidest I've ever seen. They're essentially saying the general public can't discern between movies and reality. I, nor has anyone else in this world, looked upon a man or woman with scars and thought they were evil. On top of all this, they're taking away work from actors who have facial scars. What a joke.

[chip75]

Sweet Zombie Jesus, so I guess that all these square-jawed Hollywood handsome leading men won't be allowed to play heroes either?

Because sometimes good guys have scars ... and not just on the inside.

There goes the BFI's money earner - The James Bond Celebration.

[Cremildo]

Bleeding-heart do-gooders are the scariest sort of people.

[latenight]

Wtf?

[Samus Aran]

Would that mean they wouldn't allow Michael K. Williams to play a bad guy? Or if he did, he'd have to cover up his scar?

[sk33tr]

so much idiocy in that...just one facepalm won't do it...

[Dubstar]

^ lol