They seem all right, as far as eyes go. Nice brown color, good spacing and symmetry ... no real problems worth mentioning. And yet for some reason, every filmmaker's reaction when they see those eyes is "I must annihilate them at all costs. Cut them out! Burn them out! Bring me the weeping children of Mads Mikkelsen's eyes so they can look upon their father's destroyer!!!"
We ... we should probably start explaining.
The trend started in Casino Royale, Mikkelsen's introduction to the world outside Scandinavia. In that film, his character's left eye is horribly scarred, leaving him weeping blood in moments of high stress.
Eon ProductionsWe're talking about the one that had all the color carved out of it with a dull fork.
Mads' gooey eye isn't a plot point, or even a setup for one of Bond's one-liners. Instead, someone just looked at Mikkelsen and demanded that they fuck up his left eye before filming. And then someone completely different decided the same thing two movies later in Valhalla Rising. Mikkelsen's character not only has a wad of elbow skin for a left eye in the film, but he is actually called One Eye.
Scanbox EntertainmentDanish pinkeye does not fuck around.
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