A concise guide to beards for the film director. Yes, it is a requirement to be taken seriously in the industry of cinema. Many feature film people have tried to go on directing without hair on their face despite the warnings of comrade film professionals, and this has led to the unwanted: car commercials, music videos, and the worst of them all...short films.
First a little about this odd looking facial growth. A beard is hair that grows on the chin, lower cheeks, upper neck, and the area under the nose and above the upper lip. Generally speaking, only males going are able to grow beards once reaching puberty and beyond. There are some cases of women with that may develop a beard as in the case of the bearded lady, and that is perfectly acceptable.
So beards are some sort of growth from the one place you want to keep looking young as long as possible. Given that, there are still youngsters out there that defiantly grow a beard, and not because they are too lazy to shave, or don't have the IQ to understand how to use a razor; but because the forefathers of cinema did it and we continue this tradition.
These young people grew up to become:
Joel and Ethan Coen
Terrence Malick
Stanley Kubrick
George Lucas
Hayao Miyazaki
Steven Spielberg
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Haneke
Michael Moore
David Fincher
Peter Jackson
Bela Tarr
Mustaches do not count as a beard, though in most cases it does go with the whole appearance of a beard. Therefore: beards are cool. Not so cool is back and shoulder hair.
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