British Film Institute Rejects Funding for Films With Facially-Scarred Villains
Characters with facial scars or disfigurements portrayed as villains is a movie trope that goes back generations, from Lon Chaney as the Phantom of the Opera to the James Bond villain Blofeld, and as recently as Kylo Ren in the new “Star Wars” movies.
But the British Film Institute (BFI) is supporting a charity called Changing Faces and their new campaign called #IAmNotYourVillain by saying that they will no longer fund films via the National Lottery that feature negative representations of characters with scars or facial differences.
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