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I can't find a clip, but the scene in "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) when the individual who spends his entire onscreen presence with his face concealed by a silver mask, has his masked removed. Suffice it to say, he wore the mask because he had leprosy.
Diane Arbus asks her masked neighbour if she can take his portrait. ''Why would you want to take a portrait of someone you've never seen Diane ?... Diane, come back tomorrow night at nine.''. She does, and he unmasks himself to her.
Lois Lane finally sees through Clark's superbly complicated disguise of a pair of glasses to reveal he really is Superman. All it took was him tripping over a pink bear and putting his hand in the fire.
Christopher Lee`s first appearance as The Creature in Hammer`s The Curse of Frankenstein. His face is swathed in a bandage, as he rips it off the camera does a fast dolly in to reveal a close-up of his face.
This weeks Clip-joint caused me to think of a film I had never seen ; namely The crying game . So , last night , while searching for the relevent clip , I found myself watching the whole film on Youtube . I thought it was very good , and , despite the obvious budget limitations , realy succeeds .
There is (unsurprisingly) no seperate clip of the reveal , so , if you want to see it , you will have to watch it through yourselves . There are worse ways to waste a couple of hours , in my opinion .
Each week a Guardian reader selects their five favourite clips to illustrate a chosen topic, then next week comes back into the blog to select their top choices from those suggested by other readers. Clip joint began in 2006 and appears every Wednesday; since 2010 a shortened version has also appeared in the Friday Film & Music print section