{"id":1701,"date":"2004-01-19T01:17:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T09:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/01\/19\/1701.html"},"modified":"2004-01-19T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T09:17:16","slug":"evil-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/01\/19\/evil-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil skin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since outward appearance is supposed to reflect the worth of the soul, American movies (drawing, of course, on a long tradition of European folktales, literature, and drama) often portray evil characters as being ugly or deformed, or having features associated with particular racial groups (such as hooked noses).  I just stumbled across the <a href=\"http:\/\/itsb.ucsf.edu\/~vcr\/Evil.html\">Manifestation of Evil<\/a> page, which shows lots of examples of skin conditions, scarring, unusual medical conditions, and tattoos being used in movies to represent evil.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite line:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Off the silver screen, accessory nipples, like other birthmarks, do not indicate evil.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, there's an opposing tradition in which a fair outward form conceals evil within (isn't there a Shakespeare line about that?  I'm not finding it), and in some cases even ugly people turn out to be good guys.  But I do find it interesting that certain kinds of facial features and medical conditions are widely used as shorthand to let audiences know that a character is Evil.<\/p>\n<p>(The search that led to that page was sparked by learning why the character played by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abwag.com\/tiny_ron.htm\">Tiny Ron<\/a> in <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102803\/\">Rocketeer<\/a><\/cite> looked so familiar: he was made up to look like classic acromegalic horror-movie actor <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.858.telia.com\/~u85821131\/misc\/rondo.html\">Rondo Hatton<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since outward appearance is supposed to reflect the worth of the soul, American movies (drawing, of course, on a long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}