Came in on this movie while already running and saw Darren McGavin...immediately noticed something very odd with his left eye, as if he's wearing a contact lens to make it look like a prosthetic eye. Was there something in the story I missed that addresses this? If not then I find it most odd for the director etc to have had him wear this...unless it's something I've overlooked before. I dunno, color me perplexed. Thanks
shareIn the novel, his character had a glass eye. They may have cut out all the references to explain that.
shareAHA! Thanks for that, unlike me it makes perfect sense LOL
shareIn keeping with the Homeric Odysseus theme, he is the cyclops that eats most of the crew. Also, it's ironic that Gus covers his good eye when guessing the amount of money in Roy's possession, saying that the magic eye sees all, when apparently it didn't.
shareThere are many traditional folktales that incorporate on this kind of thing - the missing or diseased eye (e.g., a cock eye) to see something supernatural.
As a kid, not getting any of the mythological / literary tie-in's, I always just figured he used it as part of a distraction technique to unnerve his adversaries and weaken their stomaches enough to get one over on them when their defenses were diverted from the real play.
Which, incidentally, is the hallmark of parlor magic, which Hobbs demonstrates in its most obvious example to "win" the bet in the night club
He was only intended to have a cameo. So maybe when they increased his role they forgot to incorporate a reference to it.
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