In Film
- In Planet of the Apes (2001), the humans were branded once they were captured by apes before put into slavery. The ape Ari was also branded in the movie because of her support for human equality.
- In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow is shown as having a P branded on his right forearm, for "pirate". It's later revealed in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End that Cutler Beckett himself personally branded Jack.
- In the Harry Potter series (books and films), Death Eaters (Lord Voldemort's followers) were branded with the Dark Mark, a snake slithering out of the mouth of a skull.
- In the TV series LOST, Juliet Burke is branded with four inter-crossing lines as punishment for killing one of her people.
- In the movie Angels and Demons the four cardinals are each branded with a separate ambigram, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and the Camerlengo brands himself with two crossed upside-down keys to frame the Head of the Swiss Guard. (In the book version, he brands himself with the "Illuminati Diamond", an amalgamation of all four of the ambigrammatic brands that itself is also ambigrammatic.)
- In Jackass Number Two, Bam Margera was branded with a cow brand in the shape of a penis and scrotum on his right buttocks.
- In the TV show Metalocalypse, servants/roadies of the band Dethklok are branded with a gear on the back of their necks.
- In Spartacus TV series, gladiators are branded on their forearm.
- In Criminal Minds, Emily Prentiss is branded above her bosom with a clover.
- In one of the episodes of Roman Mysteries (TV series), The Assassins of Rome, Jonathan ben Mordecai is branded for helping an assassin attempt to kill the Emperor Titus.
- The practice of branding is exaggerated to humorous effect in the movie Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay when Neil Patrick Harris (who plays himself in the film) brands his initials–"N.P.H."–onto the buttocks of a prostitute.
- In Cecil B. DeMille's film The Cheat (1915), Haka Arakau brands the back of Edith Hardy's neck when she refuses to comply with their deal.
- In The Beach (2001), three friends are branded when they become part of the Island people.
- In Story of O (1975), O is branded with her master's initials.
Read more about this topic: Human Branding
Famous quotes containing the word film:
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
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