Scary Shiny Glasses/Film
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Examples of Scary Shiny Glasses in Film include:
- The highway patrolman in Psycho.
- Godfrey, the road boss in Cool Hand Luke. He's even referred to by several prisoners as the "Man with No Eyes".
- Referenced in O Brother, Where Art Thou? with Sheriff Cooley, who is an homage to Godfrey. At one point in the movie, Tommy describes the Devil as "white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He likes to travel around with a mean old hound". Cooley fits the description to an unsettling degree.
- Prepare to shiver when he replies to one character's protestations with this line: "The law? Law is a human invention."
- In The Exorcist, the doctor that initially diagnoses Regan has Scary Shiny Glasses as he scans through the X-Rays looking for something amiss.
- The airplane pilot at the beginning of Westworld dons a pair.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has Himmler wear these in the brief scene in which he appears. Extra evil points for the glare being the reflection of a pyre upon which books are being burned.
- In the independent film Ink the bad guys, who are all depicted as usually wearing glasses and glass screens in front of their faces, remove their screens in the climactic battle to reveal that the glasses actually emit their own light.
- In the film version of The Witness for the Prosecution, the main character has a similar trick using a monocle and a window at the right time of day. The shine is intimidating both to the audience and to those he speaks to, and he claims nobody can lie under its influence. He's wrong.
- The brutal Knight Templar Big Brother in the Film Noir Sweet Smell of Success J.J. Hunsecker wears these to good effect.
- Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? wears shiny rimless glasses, as if he wasn't creepy enough. The fact that this Trope is used not once, but twice with those glasses in the film doesn't help us to relax.
- In the film adaptation of Sin City, Kevin's glasses follow this trope, as suggested by the graphic novel's art style.
- In Witness for the Prosecution, attorney Sir Wilfred uses his monocle like this for intimidation—and then subverted when the intimidatee pulls the shades down on the window.
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