“The bald guys are always the bad guys.” Though there are a few notable exceptions to that rule, with the likes of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jason Statham and Bruce Willis typically playing tough guy heroes, history shows us that those without hair are far more likely to be depicted as freaks and outcasts.
How cinema helped villainise the bald man In his new action movie ‘Flight Risk’, Mark Wahlberg plays a villain – and you can tell because his character is balding.
Yes, it’s not often that we get to see Wahlberg portray a weirdo brute, but the second we do, someone (presumably director Mel Gibson) immediately deems it necessary to give him a Mr Burns haircut.
Unfortunately, when it comes to crafting characters, baldness is often used as a visual cue to signal someone’s evil nature, making them easily distinguishable from the hero by showing off their menacing skull.
In it, the actor plays a pilot tasked with transporting a US marshal and government witness to a trial, only for him to eventually turn on the pair, take off his cap and reveal himself as a murderous villain.
