The BFI will no longer fund movies featuring villains with facial scars

Along with menacing laughs, dastardly mustaches and plans for world domination, facial scars/disfigurements have often been an attribute of movie villains for about as long as movies have been around. There’s THE DARK KNIGHT’s The Joker; Le Chiffre, Blofeld and Silva from the Bond movies and; Vader, Kylo Ren and Dryden Vos from the Star Wars movies, etc. Hell, LION KING’s… Read More...

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