When he finally succumbs to our air, he evaporates into nothingness, leaving only empty clothes behind. John, the mysterious alien Guide in Enki Bilal's Immortel ad Vitam has his head completely wrapped in black cloth at all times, presumably to protect himself from Earth's hostile atmosphere.When Hamer finally has them dead to rights after luring the pair into a trap, the two spree killers look surprisingly young (they were in their mid-twenties when they committed their crimes). The Highwaymen: Bonnie and Clyde are never shown up-close until their death scene, adding to their mystique.His mask effectively obscures his features, though we're afforded a good view of his eyeballs and tongue when he gets tossed onto some spikes. Flash Gordon (1980) - Klytus, Head of Ming the Merciless' Secret Police.In one scene his face actually is shown as he's leafing through a book-but it's out of focus. 1928 experimental short film The Fall of the House of Usher never shows the face of the man who comes to visit Roderick and Madeline Usher, shooting him from behind, or showing his top hat, or showing his hands.He's usually swathed in bandages, once he's shot from directly overhead, and there are a couple of quick looks from a distance in one scene where he's scrambling to put the bandages on when a visitor arrives. Also true in the trope sense, as the film never really gives a good look of what Okajima's destroyed face really looks like. Literally in the case of Okajima in The Face of Another, whose face was blasted off in an industrial accident.the Extra-Terrestrial: With the exception of Elliot's mother, the audience doesn't see the faces of any adults until the final third of the movie, playing up the perspective from a child's POV. Apparently, "Vern" is supposed to be a stand-in for the audience. Most of them had him talking about Product X to someone named "Vern", while "Vern" was doing something off-screen, like changing a lightbulb while Ernest held the ladder. This is a Shout-Out to Ernest's numerous commercials. All we see is his first person perspective, as Ernest clumsily bumbles about his house. In Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest has got a friend whose face we never see.Because the truck is the important character. The driver of the semi in Steven Spielberg's Duel.Dick Tracy The Blank, until revealed to be Breathless Mahoney.The same is true of the crowd of oddly passive onlookers around the rich man's body. Dementia (1955): The weird man in the cemetery who shows the woman the graves of her parents never shows his face instead, it's always hidden in shadow. Then he has plastic surgery, and when the bandages come off we see it's now Humphrey Bogart. In Dark Passage, the entire first act is done from the POV of the main character and we're not shown his face.In Eyes Wide Shut, the Mysterious Woman wears a face mask throughout her scenes in the film.Probably done to not get our hopes up about a possible future Batgirl appearance (or maybe just to not cause the confusion of the two Gordon kids both being Jrs. She is even only listed as "Gordon's Daughter" in the credits. In The Dark Knight, Commissioner Gordon's daughter is at first completely unseen, and later we only see the back of her head (she looks to be about eight or nine).Made all the more tantalizing because he's played by a very famous actor ( Robert Duvall), who was unbilled in the film's original release, leading many viewers to say 'hey, is it really that guy?' Gene Hackman's employer in The Conversation is only ever seen in shadows.In fact, all of the reporters and news-media personnel in the film (those not employed by Kane himself) are The Faceless, reinforcing that what they do is more relevant to the story than who they are. In Citizen Kane, Thompson, the reporter whose investigation into "Rosebud" is the backbone of the plot, is only shown from behind or with his face in shadow.
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