Popular culture

Popular culture

• The procedure was very grotesquely, yet somewhat accurately, highlighted in Georges Franju's 1960 cult horror film Les Yeux sans visage, which translates to "Eyes Without a Face."
• Kōbō Abe, Japanese author and playwright, wrote The Face of Another (1964) about a plastics scientist who loses his face in an accident and proceeds to construct a new face for himself. With a new face, the protagonist sees the world in a new way and even goes so far as to have a clandestine "affair" with his estranged wife. This novel was made into a film of the same name by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1966.
• The plot of the 1997 film Face/Off is based on a face transplant operation that involved changing the underlying structure and actual face shape. In the film, the transplant is shown to be reversible, with the patient being able to replace his original face if desired.
• An episode of The Simpsons, The Bob Next Door, features Sideshow Bob using face transplants to exchange his face with a cellmate as part of an elaborate prison escape plan so he can murder Bart.
• The procedure is included in the eighteenth episode of fifth season of Grey's Anatomy, titled Stand By Me.
• Episode 9 of Season 3 of Nip/Tuck includes the procedure.
• There are advertisement posters in Repo! The Genetic Opera that display "Replace Your Face, Coming in 2057", That promote cosmetic face transplants.