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Gleason's eyes

posted 17 years ago by Tim-O-T
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When the bomb is being "defused", tension is high and Gleason's eyes are shown close up. One is green, the other is blue.

[–] wilsons926 17 years ago

i wasn't paying attention. but i noticed the camera man loved the zoom button, didn't he? i feel bad for the editor. at the begining when they first came after jackie. the editor must of had 7 peices of film of close up shots to splice together.

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[–] WarpedRecord 14 years ago

Yes, the kind of overdid it with those zooms, didn't they? I think they also repeated the same footage when Gleason attempts to leave the palace.

As for Gleason's eyes, they both appeared to be dark brown, so that may have been an optical illusion or contact lens:
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/08/09/interesting-interviews-jackie-gl eason/

(The condition is called heterochromia, and Dan Aykroyd, Kiefer Sutherland, Christopher Walken and possibly David Bowie have it.)

[–] xdayton 11 years ago

In case anyone cares two years later, but Bowie doesn't have heterochromia. One of his eyes was damaged in a schoolyard fight when he was a boy. The injured eye isn't actually a different color, just pale from the injury.

[–] WarpedRecord 11 years ago

I always care about Bowie, no matter how long it's been since my last post. I said "possibly" because I was unsure abut the reason for the different shade in the injured eye. Thanks for setting me straight!

[–] Zuider_Zee 8 years ago

Actually, Bowie's injured eye is permanently dilated which makes it appear to be darker than his uninjured eye.

[–] WarpedRecord 8 years ago

Thanks for the dilation detail.

[–] WarpedRecord 14 years ago

I specifically looked for that after reading your post. You're correct: Gleason's right eye is greener than the left. I don't think they were drastically different, though. It was probably because of lighting.

[–] brabryant 11 years ago

No biggie. I went to school with someone who had one brown eye and one blue eye.
Watched this movie not too long ago. ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I HAVE EVER WASTED MY TIME WATCHING! This movie is terrible and Joan Delaney is skinny and hard to look at. All I kept thinking when they showed her on screen was a skeleton with skin covering the bones. She makes an anorexic look chubby!

[–] parisel 9 years ago

I think she is very cute. She is just naturally thin, looks perfectly healthy. Not everyone is overweight yet.

I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

[–] mickeyhfgg 9 years ago

I have to agree that it was probably just the lighting that caused the difference in eye color. Btw, no way are Jackie's eyes brown. As for Joan being so skinny---that was what was in vogue at the time. Because of models like Twiggy, skinny was all the rage, so many young actresses of the time looked anorexic. Probably some were, too, just to fit in.