His eyes look off because he has dementia. Mental problems totally change the way a person’s face looks, because of the eyes. He’s no longer processing information in the same way he did ten years ago; his brain is malfunctioning. The eyes are always the best way to tell this.
Honestly, I blame media. We have wayyyy too many portrayals of characters who are psychotic, insane, evil, literally demon-possessed, depressed, mentally retarded, and so on, who are played by cognitively normal actors. So those characters’ eyes look normal. (An exception to this was TDK’s Joker). But in real life, you can almost always tell by the eyes when somebody’s brain is abnormal.
Mental problems totally change the way a person’s face looks,
That led to a creepy scene. In the additional features on the Sling Blade dvd was a scene of Thornton as director setting up a scene he is in as Karl Childers. He says something like being Karl now, and his shoulders hunch and his face changes in the weirdest way; he just becomes dull, lantern-jawed retard Karl.
His eyes look off because he has dementia. Mental problems totally change the way a person’s face looks, because of the eyes. He’s no longer processing information in the same way he did ten years ago; his brain is malfunctioning. The eyes are always the best way to tell this.
Honestly, I blame media. We have wayyyy too many portrayals of characters who are psychotic, insane, evil, literally demon-possessed, depressed, mentally retarded, and so on, who are played by cognitively normal actors. So those characters’ eyes look normal. (An exception to this was TDK’s Joker). But in real life, you can almost always tell by the eyes when somebody’s brain is abnormal.
That led to a creepy scene. In the additional features on the Sling Blade dvd was a scene of Thornton as director setting up a scene he is in as Karl Childers. He says something like being Karl now, and his shoulders hunch and his face changes in the weirdest way; he just becomes dull, lantern-jawed retard Karl.
He’s also had a truckload of plastic surgery, that much is indisputable