Does it look off to you? Hint: look at Travolta's head. In the first shot, co-star Bob Gunton is closer to the camera, therefore his head appears larger on screen. In the second shot Travolta is closer to the camera, therefore his head...is smaller? Wait, what the fuck? How did this happen?
My thoery: someone mistakenly let Travolta watch the dailies and the actor was so horrified by the sight of his ever embiggening, child-scaring, booze-monster head that he asked Woo if it could be fixed it in post. Woo complained that doing so would be quite jarring, as people would find a small Travolta head beyond the realm of possibilities; Travolta said, "I'm John Travolta." Hence, the freaky images posted above.
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I'm pretty sure you're probably the only person to ever watch this film closely enough to notice that. I take it you have no ability to turn that filter off, even when watching something like Broken Arrow?
Sad to say it's true.
AHHH!!!!. I had no idea that scientology gave actors the power to shape shift.
I know, it's frightening.
First screencap - Bob Gunton over-the-shoulder close-up shot.
Second screencap - John Travolta over-the shoulder wideshot.
The reason his head isn't any larger is because the camera was closer to Gunton's head in his shot, and further away on Travolta's.
My point is that, even ignoring the first screencap, in the second picture Travolta is closer to the camer than Gunton, yet their heads are the same size. Unless, Gunton has a freakish head that's freakishly larger than Travolta's freakishly large head, this is impossible.
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