Had my cousin arguing with me when I told him that it was Billy Bob Thornton who played the part of Carl. I had to pull up the cast for the movie before he would believe me. He is a very great actor
I agree. I was working for IBM at the time and one of my coworkers was going on and on about this movie and that I needed to see it so I did and he was so right. Such a good movie and funny haha way not...
It was not a swipe. It was a compliment. As a mechanic, when diagnosing a problem, the SOP is to look at the simplest things first. The shop owner knows this and saw it in Karl.
Yup. You take courses in IT, for example, and the first rule of troubleshooting tends to be "is it plugged in/is there power to the device?" Start with the basics.
One of my first jobs after moving away from home was selling home electronics and I was always completely stunned by A.) how useless the trouble shooting guides were for me (since it was all really obvious shit like check to make sure unit is plugged in and B.) how incredibly stupid people could be about such basic stuff. Really made me wonder WTF when I had to give Coke machine level instructions to a medical doctor on how to cut his television set on.
I use this very scene as an analogy when I am training people at work to illustrate that when there is a problem you always start at the beginning or the simplest thing.
Although I'm certainly no mechanic, I have worked as a machine operator on a production line for 6 years now; and I had to learn real quick how to fix issues with the lines. I work 3rd shift; and sometimes we don't even have maintenance available. So as the operator, you're the first line of defense if the line breaks down. One of the things I learned right away, was to look for the simplest problem and work your way up. I've seen lines down for hours with multiple maintenance guys, operators, and supervisors trying to figure it out. Only for me to come in and notice that a safety door wasn't closed quite right and that was the problem. It's really easy to over-complicate a problem in your head. So when you train yourself to break it down to the basics, it helps alleviate that problem.
Yep. I used to be 3rd tier tech support IT. Got in a shouting match once with a young hothead, because I had a hunch the way the software was acting, that when he reset the 4 pieces of equipment, the sequence was wrong. He and another person had worked on it for 90 minutes. He claimed I was insulting his intelligence. Like you say, in our case frustration was a big distraction/ barrier.
@@docducttape9270 ... Carl could not leave, he loved his new friends and felt his life was worth so much less. He could not sit by and watch Doyle abuse them and he knew the only way to help was to eliminate what he saw as an evil. His loyalty to those who he sees as friends has no price. He knew that he was capable of doing what most people can't, or won't, in terms of violence. He is a peaceful man, but fully capable of eliminating an evil he perceives as a serious threat to his friends.
I remember when Jeoffrey Rush won the Academy Award for best actor that year. A fine performance but it felt like a low blow. Didn't matter, Billy Bob Thornton married Angelina Jolie and became an A-list actor.
"That boy... he's my friend" "He likes the way I talk and i likes the way he talks" This masterpiece is almost too perfect...it speaks directly to the human soul, but quietly
It’s the biscuits he eats mustard with. Weird southern thing. I don’t do it, but i live in Alabama and it’s definitely a thing with older country people
"He thinks of the simplest things first." This isn't about the tiller. It isn't about his skills as a mechanic. This is very subtle foreshadowing. Carl immediately sees the most effective solution and is't weighed down by interpretations and hypothesis. This applies to problem people.
Didn't notice the foreshadowing in this scene until my 3rd watch, really brilliantly done, subtle but clear: "He thinks of the simplest things first." Carl is a deeply moral man, though with severely limited ability to think critically, or deeply reason. Most of us, as we grow older, we learn to compromise, rationalize, and follow rules we may not like or totally agree with. Carl sees a problem, something he knows is wrong, comes up with the simplest, most straightforward way to solve it. And so he kills his mothers lover. He kills his Mother. And he kills Doyle. Convinced it was right. And the rest of us watching are left with a real moral dilemma.
Nope. He has a great ability to think critically, to deeply reason. Many of us compromise with evil. Karl won't. He was right in killing those people. He killed evil people to protect innocent people. The only moral dilemma is in those who lack critical thinking, deep reason, morality.
@@raybenoit5238, I know a guy who bought a brand new computer and his 3-year old stood on a chair and tinkled on it. I said, "sorry, that's not covered under warranty". But I said it real sorry like. Like I wasn't laughing. I mean, the guy spent some 4 Grand on it.
I've always liked the actor who plays the psychologist. Notice the subtle look he gets on his face and the slight glance he gives Karl when Karl says "They know I'm well." I think he (as the character) knows Karl isn't completely together and has the capability to stray off course. Great performances all around in this movie.
After I watched it the first time, my friend told me Karl was played by Bill Bob Thornton and I was like "Get out!!" Imagine my surprise to learn it was true!
The whole point was that Karl grew up around horrid people and abject indecency. And as for the South, lets be real and honest that the South is not always decent and human. Its Arkansas, people still look down on a man with a mental handicap. At least he's white.
@@CodaMission Oh, and by extension, in the north everyone is all virtuous and noble, right? It looks like someone around here is absorbing all of the toxic stereotypes that Unholywood is promulgating... Ever since that freakish Abraham Lincoln ended the American experiment in true Liberty with his draconian and murderous rampage against his own people, our country has been divided. Slavery was on the way out, we didn't need to kill more people than died in World War II. Let's be honest and admit that that was an atrocity...
@@ThomasG-og4yb Not from the North. I also never said that about the North, so why did you feel the need to pretend I did? Why argue against something I never said in the first place? Aaand there it is. Another apologist ragging on Lincoln, telling the same mythic Lost Cause excuses, because he's tied his ancestry to his identity, and it's easier to rewrite history than accept that his ancestors were treasonous and didn't care about the liberty of anyone non-white.
@@CodaMission sorry but that's a typical libtard response. You don't know anything about me, I speak three languages my wife is a different color than me, I'm just not a pathetic victim and I don't allow my daughter to feel like a victim if she looks a little different than some of her friends. So-called liberals are the most intolerant hypocritical and racist people that I ever have to deal with, all of my conservative friends and I are truly color blind. Have a great life!
It wasn't really even a "Hollywood movie". The movie had a budget of like, what, a million bucks, tops? But the tradeoff was that the producer providing the cash would stay out of Billy Bob's way and let him control it how he wanted.
This reminds me of when I worked as an ER Tech and the nurses would ask me from time to time why a monitor wasn't working. I would say, "you gotta flip the switch in the back". Or, "you have to plug it in".
Still, IMHO, one of the beat movies ever made and definitely Billy Bob’s best outing. I was watching him on a talk show and he dropped into the Karl character. It was amazing how he took on the “look” of Karl without any makeup or prosthetics. I very underrated actor.
I wish Billy Bob would make more movies. This was a masterpiece. And monsters ball. Bad Santa. He seems more inclined to chill and stay out of the spotlight.
These are 2 quotes amongst many more me and my 2 brothers would yell at one another, as we were growing up. Lol 🤣.. It's dark but we all find funny in darkness. Also it's an amazingly deep and beautiful film, hands down.. "I'm hurting Linda",,.. & "We ain't got no fuckin band Randy",,. These were a few things screamed in our house for the past 20+ years.
Remember years ago I was at a job as forklifting and they had to call in mechanic to look at one of the lifts and sure enough mechanics like the gas tank's empty.
Occam's Razor. The thought concept that dictates that the answer to a problem often is a simple answer. Hence, if your lawnmower won't start, most likely, "it ain't got no gas in it."
After Karl was put back in prison he was released again years later due to overcrowding and became a pizza delivery man who had to deal with goddamn street racers.
Around 1:38 Billy Bob goes to look the other actor in the eye, which would be a normal human interaction in that moment, but then he remembers that avoiding eye contact is a key symptom of someone at Karl's place on the spectrum and looks down quickly. People who don't have much interaction with Asperger's/Autism sufferers probably wouldn't even notice this, and even though I personally never really liked Billy Bob as an actor, his dedication to this role and the performance he turned in definitely deserve respect.
"That boy, he's my friend. He likes the way I talk, and I like the way he talks. Mhmm." 1996- Well that's great to hear! Good on you, Karl! 2021- Karl... These detectives are going to need to have a word with you...
And Karl will be square with those detectives, makes sure he gets his point across, and leave no stone unturned. And he will be able to head home with no further questions.
Listen with headphones with the volume up. While Karl and Jerry are talking you can here Scooter in the background trying to crank that mower several more times.😄
Always loved the small town embraced Carl and empathized with his situation. Can’t think of anyone today who could get close to a decent job after that background check
Well sir, that's 26 of 'em must be friends of Ol' Doyle. I didn't know that that goof HAD 26 "friends"...mmmm"! While I wait ta see who'ns is gonna insult me, I might as well head on down to the nearest Restaurant, an' git myself some O' them French fried Taters, an', if'n they got any, some O' them thar' Biscuits N' Mustard! Mmhmm!
Frank’s Mom is a vulnerable widow with the abusive Doyle in part of her life, the family tragedy is about to happen. The story is so true as if it’s a documentary and the way it was told is straight forward and plain. It’s not pretentious , not dramatic or has flash cast and it’s gradually unfolded. The personality of each character is presented to you , developing in front you. You got to know them .And they are so them.Billy Bob Thornton said that You don’t need a big movie just a big theme to astonish. I love this movie.
Bill: Karl, see if you can figure out what's wrong with this thing. It won't crank up and ever'thing seems to be put together right. Karl: It ain't got no gas in it. Bill: See there Scooter. Thinks of the simplest thing first. Ever since I saw that scene, that's how I try to approach problems. I also rely on Scrooge McDuck's "Work smarter, not harder" quote.
Billy Bob is simply unrecognizable in this role. Heck of an actor.
Kurt Russell slapped him so hard, his voice changed for this movie.
One of the best acting performances I've ever seen. This movie is phenomenal and a big reason is BBT.
I feel like that’s what makes a good actor. The ability to play a variety of roles
Billy Bob Thornton’s story of how he came up with the character is fascinating
Had my cousin arguing with me when I told him that it was Billy Bob Thornton who played the part of Carl. I had to pull up the cast for the movie before he would believe me. He is a very great actor
This movie is brilliant in every way.
I totally agree. It's my favorite. At the end everyone says "Carl" as he walks away. That part is always so significant to me.
I agree. I was working for IBM at the time and one of my coworkers was going on and on about this movie and that I needed to see it so I did and he was so right. Such a good movie and funny haha way not...
Mark Thomas I agree
I like the way you comment.
It's in my top 5.
It was not a swipe. It was a compliment. As a mechanic, when diagnosing a problem, the SOP is to look at the simplest things first. The shop owner knows this and saw it in Karl.
Absolutely. It was a compliment and an excellent one at that. It’s never genius to complicate things Unnecessarily.
Well ain't you the analitacal genius
I still laugh at that part after all these years...
Gus VanHorn Your punctuation leaves something to be desired as well smart guy! Lol
@@clearlycaribbeanreb7176 I think you missed a comma, smart guy. Lol this thread is hilious
Great movie! As it was so beautifully casted… all the roles in this movie, every one.
There’s a reason a lot of electronics troubleshooting pamphlets start with “check if device is plugged in”.
OH MY GOD is that FUNNY, what you have written here..... I am dying right now... HOLY COW, thank you for that !!
start at the wall and work your way to the chair
My husband was an electronic technician at for decades. He can attest to that. Also, the have you unplugged and plugged back in method.
Yup. You take courses in IT, for example, and the first rule of troubleshooting tends to be "is it plugged in/is there power to the device?" Start with the basics.
One of my first jobs after moving away from home was selling home electronics and I was always completely stunned by A.) how useless the trouble shooting guides were for me (since it was all really obvious shit like check to make sure unit is plugged in and B.) how incredibly stupid people could be about such basic stuff. Really made me wonder WTF when I had to give Coke machine level instructions to a medical doctor on how to cut his television set on.
"It ain't got no gas in it." I love it!
He wrote it ,directed it and starred in it .Brilliant !!
I never knew all that.
And won an Oscar.
he should have won best actor
He even did it twice. This is an expansion of a short film he made.
Apparently is only took 24 days to film as well. Crazy
" It ain't got no gas in it". One of the greatest lines in movie history.
I absolutely LOVED this movie. Billy Bobs performance was brilliant.
I had no idea Kurt Russell slapped him so hard, his voice changed.
He likes the way I talk and I like the way he talks 👍
'Mhm'
Ah like th' way dey both talk, ah reckon! MmmHmm!!
i always loved that line. also the one where carl says that frank lives in his own heart and thats a big place to live.
I use this very scene as an analogy when I am training people at work to illustrate that when there is a problem you always start at the beginning or the simplest thing.
Which is ironically an overly complicated way to deliver a simple point
@@fredrik8500yep but it makes people laugh and they remember it.
Occams Razor
One of the best movies ever made.
Although I'm certainly no mechanic, I have worked as a machine operator on a production line for 6 years now; and I had to learn real quick how to fix issues with the lines. I work 3rd shift; and sometimes we don't even have maintenance available. So as the operator, you're the first line of defense if the line breaks down. One of the things I learned right away, was to look for the simplest problem and work your way up. I've seen lines down for hours with multiple maintenance guys, operators, and supervisors trying to figure it out. Only for me to come in and notice that a safety door wasn't closed quite right and that was the problem. It's really easy to over-complicate a problem in your head. So when you train yourself to break it down to the basics, it helps alleviate that problem.
Yep. I used to be 3rd tier tech support IT. Got in a shouting match once with a young hothead, because I had a hunch the way the software was acting, that when he reset the 4 pieces of equipment, the sequence was wrong. He and another person had worked on it for 90 minutes. He claimed I was insulting his intelligence. Like you say, in our case frustration was a big distraction/ barrier.
One of the best scenes in one of the best movies ever. Always think of the simplest things first
Reminds me of working in IT. "Did you check that it's powered on?" :)
Carl is genuinely a good person. He was just abused and bullied and a person can only take so much.
Well, maybe the first killing.
But as an adult you can always just leave...
@@docducttape9270 ... Carl could not leave, he loved his new friends and felt his life was worth so much less. He could not sit by and watch Doyle abuse them and he knew the only way to help was to eliminate what he saw as an evil. His loyalty to those who he sees as friends has no price. He knew that he was capable of doing what most people can't, or won't, in terms of violence. He is a peaceful man, but fully capable of eliminating an evil he perceives as a serious threat to his friends.
I've only watched some clips of the movie so far but didn't he kill his mother for having sex with a man he didn't like?
@Mulatto Menace I was kind off thinking the same thing. Kids now a days can justify in thier head killing because of bullying!. Amazing!..
I'm gonna ruin the whole movie for everyone. He was............. What we call in the South. Simple minded.
This movie is a true testament to the range of Billy Bob Thorton when you think of this and Goliath. Hard to grasp they are the same actor.
R.I.P. James Hampton 1936-2021
One of the greatest American movies ever.
It is. It captures Southern, small-town, working-class so well. A real timeless cinematic snapshot.
In my opinion, Billy Bob Thornton provided us with the beast acting performance of all time. Absolutely outstanding.
I remember when Jeoffrey Rush won the Academy Award for best actor that year. A fine performance but it felt like a low blow. Didn't matter, Billy Bob Thornton married Angelina Jolie and became an A-list actor.
Yes sir , alright then , umh huh 😅
@CalvinHikes Yeah but didn't they start shooting heroin and drinking eachother's blood?
@@Space_Ghost_Hunter: Yeah,... But what's your point? What's a/an eachother?
@@lDotley Wow. Nevermind. Weirdo.
"That boy... he's my friend"
"He likes the way I talk and i likes the way he talks"
This masterpiece is almost too perfect...it speaks directly to the human soul, but quietly
Scooter is as dumb as a lawnmower. Karl knows his french fries taste better with mustard and lawnmowers run better with gas.
I recon Ill have me a bigguns mmmhmmm
"They make a great double meat burger." lol
It’s the biscuits he eats mustard with. Weird southern thing. I don’t do it, but i live in Alabama and it’s definitely a thing with older country people
I always thought Scooter was inspired by the character Goober from The Andy Griffith Show.
hell yah :)
"He thinks of the simplest things first." This isn't about the tiller. It isn't about his skills as a mechanic. This is very subtle foreshadowing. Carl immediately sees the most effective solution and is't weighed down by interpretations and hypothesis. This applies to problem people.
Are you trying to say I need to take a lawnmower blade and..
be right back.
no paralysis by analysis with this one.
@@rondon6586 He aint the sharpest tool in the shed but he's fixin' to find one mmhmm.
@@nunyerbidness6417 I like that haha xD
I think that’s also the same as or similar to Occams Razor. “The simplest solution is likely the right one”. It’s a problem solving principle
This whole scene is so much writing and acting genius.
Lesson: Always check for the simplest things first...
This was such a touching movie.
I'll Take some of those Tator's UH Huh!😅🤣🤣
My dad still says this when we’re golfing any time one of us doesn’t put enough on a putt. “It ain’t got no gas in it”
Didn't notice the foreshadowing in this scene until my 3rd watch, really brilliantly done, subtle but clear: "He thinks of the simplest things first." Carl is a deeply moral man, though with severely limited ability to think critically, or deeply reason. Most of us, as we grow older, we learn to compromise, rationalize, and follow rules we may not like or totally agree with. Carl sees a problem, something he knows is wrong, comes up with the simplest, most straightforward way to solve it. And so he kills his mothers lover. He kills his Mother. And he kills Doyle. Convinced it was right. And the rest of us watching are left with a real moral dilemma.
Nope. He has a great ability to think critically, to deeply reason. Many of us compromise with evil. Karl won't. He was right in killing those people. He killed evil people to protect innocent people.
The only moral dilemma is in those who lack critical thinking, deep reason, morality.
Doyle deserved it.
Carl has some good qualities...is a better way of putting it. Deeply moral man is a stretch.
I love everything about this movie. The music the acting the simple plot the cast of characters and the filming angles etc...
That one dislike they forgot to put gas in their lawn mower
No, they pissed in the lawn mower!
@@raybenoit5238, I know a guy who bought a brand new computer and his 3-year old stood on a chair and tinkled on it. I said, "sorry, that's not covered under warranty". But I said it real sorry like. Like I wasn't laughing. I mean, the guy spent some 4 Grand on it.
It's a tiller
It's a rototiller 🙄
But it’s a tiller...
Ain’t got no gas in it! What fool wouldn’t check the gas lol Karl was a genius
Apparently the owner of the tiller
You would be surprised...
RIP James Hampton!
“It ain’t got no gas in it.” One the iconic lines in modern movies…..akin to the Godfather’s. “I made him an offer he could not refuse.”
I've always liked the actor who plays the psychologist. Notice the subtle look he gets on his face and the slight glance he gives Karl when Karl says "They know I'm well." I think he (as the character) knows Karl isn't completely together and has the capability to stray off course. Great performances all around in this movie.
I think Doyle wouldn't agree he's well, and thinks he may have strayed off course a bit lol
He knows Karl has never been anything but well.
He wasn't a psychologist, he was the jail warden or something.
@@jackwilliams5474 That’s why they discharged him from the Nervous Hospital
@@andrewdutler9249 Right, LOL, Andy but he wasnt a psychologist in the film, to my Knowledge.
it’s absolutely bonkers that’s billy bob thornton. the transformation he made for this role is beyond impressive.
Idk if it's true, but I heard he put glass in his shoe to pull off the awkward walk Carl has
After I watched it the first time, my friend told me Karl was played by Bill Bob Thornton and I was like "Get out!!" Imagine my surprise to learn it was true!
This was the first thing I saw him in so seeing him act in a regular role was more shocking to me.
Loved this movie, Billy-Bob killed it as Karl.
So to speak.
Carl OWNS "Scooter"
@GLITCHED MATRIX LOL!
With a name like scooter how could you forget the gas.
Caretaker was always one of my favorite actors. RIP
I agree with you, liked the role he played as caretaker. But before that he played deputy Grady in the original walking tall.
Mercury... is a real good car. That's the car I was drivin' that day. I've had a lot of good cars"
So many great quotables in this flick.
Darren Taylor I like the way you talk.
Mmm hmm
Best line for a movie
OFTEN only answer is the SIMPLEST: Lawnmower CAN'T work without gas; Boy & Mama CAN'T be happy till man's gone.
Bet that sounds good to you huh? Separating Man from boy and mama.
Thornton’s performance was brilliant, and it’s only accentuated by the fact that he wrote and directed the piece . . .
I'm shocked that a Hollywood movie actually captured a little bit of what makes the deep South such a wonderful place, the humanity and decency.
The whole point was that Karl grew up around horrid people and abject indecency. And as for the South, lets be real and honest that the South is not always decent and human. Its Arkansas, people still look down on a man with a mental handicap. At least he's white.
@@CodaMission Oh, and by extension, in the north everyone is all virtuous and noble, right? It looks like someone around here is absorbing all of the toxic stereotypes that Unholywood is promulgating... Ever since that freakish Abraham Lincoln ended the American experiment in true Liberty with his draconian and murderous rampage against his own people, our country has been divided. Slavery was on the way out, we didn't need to kill more people than died in World War II. Let's be honest and admit that that was an atrocity...
@@ThomasG-og4yb Not from the North. I also never said that about the North, so why did you feel the need to pretend I did? Why argue against something I never said in the first place?
Aaand there it is. Another apologist ragging on Lincoln, telling the same mythic Lost Cause excuses, because he's tied his ancestry to his identity, and it's easier to rewrite history than accept that his ancestors were treasonous and didn't care about the liberty of anyone non-white.
@@CodaMission sorry but that's a typical libtard response. You don't know anything about me, I speak three languages my wife is a different color than me, I'm just not a pathetic victim and I don't allow my daughter to feel like a victim if she looks a little different than some of her friends. So-called liberals are the most intolerant hypocritical and racist people that I ever have to deal with, all of my conservative friends and I are truly color blind. Have a great life!
It wasn't really even a "Hollywood movie". The movie had a budget of like, what, a million bucks, tops? But the tradeoff was that the producer providing the cash would stay out of Billy Bob's way and let him control it how he wanted.
One of the best film I have even seen. Carl is a good man.
Amazing film.
This movie was incredible
This reminds me of when I worked as an ER Tech and the nurses would ask me from time to time why a monitor wasn't working. I would say, "you gotta flip the switch in the back". Or, "you have to plug it in".
Still, IMHO, one of the beat movies ever made and definitely Billy Bob’s best outing. I was watching him on a talk show and he dropped into the Karl character. It was amazing how he took on the “look” of Karl without any makeup or prosthetics. I very underrated actor.
Great scene, worked in a shop my whole life, been there once or twice;)
I worked with you
I wish Billy Bob would make more movies. This was a masterpiece. And monsters ball. Bad Santa.
He seems more inclined to chill and stay out of the spotlight.
Check out fargo if you haven't, he's fantastic in that (the series)
@@vengeancegauloise6049 aces!
He aint threatened me with the killin or nothin lol
I've seen this 100 times and just caught that line
You've seen this 100 times, too? I thought I was the only one!😄
James Hampton always plays the stereotypical kind and gentle boss/uncle characters.
Whether this movie is good or bad it’s still a work of art. It may be good art or bad art it’s art nothing else like it in originality
R.I.P. to James Hampton, wonderful character actor.
He sure was, really great in Sling Blade!.
Such an amazing movie!
"It ain't got no gas in it!"
In this scene - crazy to think the only actor still alive is BBT.
These are 2 quotes amongst many more me and my 2 brothers would yell at one another, as we were growing up. Lol 🤣..
It's dark but we all find funny in darkness. Also it's an amazingly deep and beautiful film, hands down..
"I'm hurting Linda",,.. & "We ain't got no fuckin band Randy",,.
These were a few things screamed in our house for the past 20+ years.
Remember years ago I was at a job as forklifting and they had to call in mechanic to look at one of the lifts and sure enough mechanics like the gas tank's empty.
Classic! " Tell em bout the band randy" love this 🎥
"It ain't got no gas in it." 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
I like the was he talks. I like the way he walks .
Occam's Razor. The thought concept that dictates that the answer to a problem often is a simple answer. Hence, if your lawnmower won't start, most likely, "it ain't got no gas in it."
After Karl was put back in prison he was released again years later due to overcrowding and became a pizza delivery man who had to deal with goddamn street racers.
..a true masterpiece..
Maybe one of the last the way things are going in hollyweird.
I'd give him an award just for holding that facial expression for so long! Unless he finally said "oh the hell with it gimme them botox shots!" ☺
🤣
It's ain't got no gas in it. Best one liner.
You know, I loved this movie. Had me pulling for things to work out for ol Carl. Maybe 'that boy' would keep him sane long enough to get right
R.I.P Mr Hampton...we recently lost him.
I love you, boy.
that miss wheatley made me some biscuits.
Oh, I'll be.
With hot melty butter
Now I’ll be speaking Karl’s voice off and on all day.
Mmm-hmmmm
5 people and counting are incapable of checking the simplest things first.
Billy Bob steals the show in this one. Everyone else is saying their lines, while Thornton is taking on a persona.
Around 1:38 Billy Bob goes to look the other actor in the eye, which would be a normal human interaction in that moment, but then he remembers that avoiding eye contact is a key symptom of someone at Karl's place on the spectrum and looks down quickly.
People who don't have much interaction with Asperger's/Autism sufferers probably wouldn't even notice this, and even though I personally never really liked Billy Bob as an actor, his dedication to this role and the performance he turned in definitely deserve respect.
“Frankie!, go get my Gee-tar!”
“But Doyle, I’m eatin..”
“Go on now, get my Gee-tar, you can eat when ya get back. Hurry on now”
Billy Bob should have gotten best Actor.
The great James Hampton. He was in “Teen Wolf,” “CondorMan” and “The Cat From Outer Space,” which made him a major celebrity in my house growing up.
1 of the best movies I've seen! They sure don't make them like this anymore. Um huh
"That boy, he's my friend. He likes the way I talk, and I like the way he talks. Mhmm."
1996- Well that's great to hear! Good on you, Karl!
2021- Karl... These detectives are going to need to have a word with you...
And Karl will be square with those detectives, makes sure he gets his point across, and leave no stone unturned. And he will be able to head home with no further questions.
Listen with headphones with the volume up. While Karl and Jerry are talking you can here Scooter in the background trying to crank that mower several more times.😄
Always loved the small town embraced Carl and empathized with his situation. Can’t think of anyone today who could get close to a decent job after that background check
RIP James Hampton. Always remember him as Caretaker from Longest Yard.
F Troop.
"He's working out alright. He aint threatened me with the killing or nothing"😂
I like the way you talk
Rackets and breathing things he does lol.
The dislikes are from fans of Doyle 😂
Well sir, that's 26 of 'em must be friends of Ol' Doyle. I didn't know that that goof HAD 26 "friends"...mmmm"! While I wait ta see who'ns is gonna insult me, I might as well head on down to the nearest Restaurant, an' git myself some O' them French fried Taters, an', if'n they got any, some O' them thar' Biscuits N' Mustard! Mmhmm!
You're stuck with my ass.
Antique furniture & midgets.
Good movie.
It ain't got no gas in it!
😂😂😂
Kinda of glad "good ol boys" like that are a thing of the past nearly.
Legendary
Frank’s Mom is a vulnerable widow with the abusive Doyle in part of her life, the family tragedy is about to happen.
The story is so true as if it’s a documentary and the way it was told is straight forward and plain.
It’s not pretentious , not dramatic or has flash cast and it’s gradually unfolded. The personality of each character is presented to you , developing in front you. You got to know them .And they are so them.Billy Bob Thornton said that You don’t need a big movie just a big theme to astonish.
I love this movie.
Great movie. 👍
Anything to illuminate this film is great by me😊
Alright then... It ain't got no gas in it.
Karl Childers Rocks 👍👌💯🤣🤣
Bill: Karl, see if you can figure out what's wrong with this thing. It won't crank up and ever'thing seems to be put together right.
Karl: It ain't got no gas in it.
Bill: See there Scooter. Thinks of the simplest thing first.
Ever since I saw that scene, that's how I try to approach problems. I also rely on Scrooge McDuck's "Work smarter, not harder" quote.
Love how Carl looks briefly at Scooter... "you really are a shiftless son a b*tch, scooter!"
So funny when Carl tells em, it s out of gas
Ha!