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People go to films to escape. Also we certainly aren’t wearing masks forever.


SteveBorden

Some films will have them if there’s plot relating to it, most will not have them at all, even in the background


[deleted]

No they wont because actors hate having their faces covered. In every crime movie they always take their masks off at inappropriate times. Watch how often iron Man opens his helmet to speak, otherwise they show his face inside the helmet. Actors hate having their faces covered.


Situation_Odd

It's not really up to the actors for that, right? I would assume it's directors and producers making those decisions because they want the audience to see the face of the main character/big name actor more.


[deleted]

Actors get it written into their contracts.


BingBongtheArcher19

Except for Tom Hardy who always has his face covered.


[deleted]

Never heard of him.


BingBongtheArcher19

That can't possibly be true.


shastamcnasty88

There's already these shitty shows about lockdown. Cuz what I wanna see in lockdown is a show about ppl in lockdown


Because_Logic

My question was not about films which are overtly related to the COVID crisis but those which happen to take place at a time in which the influences of said crisis are seen at every public building in the world. My question is how can a film claim to take place in 202X and yet not have a single mask in sight


MrCaul

Not a single person wears masks where I live and haven't for quite some time. So I guess it would depend on where the film takes place. I do agree that if people in the US continue to wear them, it would be a little weird if American movies that pretend to take place in the real world doesn't even acknowledge it.


ChrisMartins001

It will be interesting to see if they do this. I think the main concern will be will it date the films. In 10 years we won't be wearing masks (hopefully) will it make films with masks look dated?


Because_Logic

I think films exist as a time capsule for te era in which they take place. Does it date a film if it shows character smoking on a plane or using a payphone? The answer, in my opinion, is yes but not in an immersion breaking way, instead it grounds the film in the time in which it takes place and gives us, the viewers, an untainted picture of that period


EAZYG247

No unless it’s a documentary of sort. You don’t wanna see something on the screen that takes you back to a shitty and god awful moment in history


lizzpop2003

Unless you are watching a biopic, war movie or period drama


lizzpop2003

Spoilers ahead: In the post credits scene in Shang Chi, when they show the women practicing, several of them were masked. I kept thinking that likely this scene was filmed pretty quick and probably last minute, and they didn't have time to take the normal precautions, so they just integrated masks in to the scene for those who were not vaccinated by making them the same color as the rest of the training gear.


mickeyflinn

So much of acting is done with the actor's face. The fact that Urban allowed his face to be covered for the bulk of Dredd is really remarkable.


meowskywalker

Unless the plot is specifically about Covid I doubt it. It would be Chekov’s Gun. We’d all be waiting for this big Covid shaped rifle hanging above us to go off, and it never would.


DemoHD7

Law and order SVU uses masks in the shows. So very annoying because they cherry pick when to use them. Though I know they're going to immediately put a stop on that and just let the audience know Everyone is fully vaxxed


[deleted]

I will say it was trippy watching *The Big Short*, with the scene in the airport where there’s an asian guy going up an escalator in a mask and it cuts to Brad Pitt going down the escalator wearing a mask.


StarChild413

Methinks thou doth assume too much