I've seen the film many times and love it, but Marlon Brando's eyes are really distracting. In some scenes they look normal, but it some scenes they look really swollen. Does anyone know why? Did he get in a fight or maybe when he was sparring or something with his boxing trainer for the film and was hit?
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Also Brando has 3 different hair styles - greasy widow's peak, modified dry-look widow's peak, and combed-forward paluka cut.
shareI read on a blog that supposedly, Brando stuffed cotton balls under his eyelids to get some sort of desired effect. A sort of hound dog, or boxer look...I dunno.
I agree though, it was distracting. He's an attractive guy and those eyelids just really...took away. IMO.
No those cotton balls he put between his cheekbones when he played Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
The reason they look "swollen" is because of the heavy dark eyeliner he wore.
Probably a makeup designer choice or maybe they thought it would make his eyes pop because the film is black and white.
Huh, is that it? Very interesting. Thanks
shareHe wore eye makeup! I thought it seemed like that. How strange. I wish they would've left his face alone.
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Was this intended as a joke? I laughed but I think you were actually serious...
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I actually thought it was a joke too until I read the rest of the post. I would imagine it to be painful.
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hahaha that made me laugh. People who joke usually aren't that convincing. You know they're joking.
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It was done on purpose to make it visible that Terry was an ex-boxer...it's the big flaw of the movie though, I'm sure the producers regretted that choice at some point, they should've left Brando's face as it is.
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I noticed the eyebrows, too. On his right one it seemed like he had some sort of scar.
shareYes, I, too, found it quite distracting. I guess it was because he was supposed to be a fighter/boxer but it was very unflattering.
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I'm pretty sure that Brando could care less if his look was "flattering". He was a former boxer in the movie, he is supposed to look all bunged up, not "pretty" or "flattering". He did a fantastic job and this film is one of the finest ever made.
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He is no supposed to be flattering or pretty in the movie. His character was a former boxer not a model. What do you think happens when your face gets punched over and over from boxing?
shareThe problem is the inconsistent look and that it was not explained. Super-puffy one scene, not puffy at all, then mildly puffy----all supposedly the same day. Poor make-up continuity, I think.
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When you are in boxing your face is going to look busted up. It may not be swollen like it was in this movie but at least they attempted to make him look like boxer.
shareI agree it is a little distracting in the closeups but only for it's inconstancy.
However I think to have such a handsome face left alone without ANY physical damage from boxing would have not added to the realism.
Don't forget, when Johnny Friendly starts to get angry at Terry he asks him how many times he had been knocked out and the answer is two times. That means that Terry may have took a brutal beating at least twice in the ring.
Also, if you look at the other ex-boxers that were part of Friendly's group they all have banged up faces so you immediately know they were boxers (and they were in real life). I'm sure that if they wanted to they could kill anyone with just their bare hands. That's why so many of the longshoremen kept their distance from them.