The Kubrick stare

[edhopper]

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[Celerity]

1. corrected pic post

[edhopper]

4. Thanks

had to find a new link.

[FalloutShelter]

2. Perfect!

[yardwork]

3. They all look so young!!!

(Sorry. It's just the first thing I thought!) Except Trump.

[Donkees]

5. *

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. That's a remarkable picture. What's it about? An actor recreating a character from a film?

[Wounded Bear]

32. It's from Airplane, the movie... nt

[ms liberty]

35. And is the late great Lloyd Bridges, father of Beau and Jeff. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

38. I think I picked the wrong week to quit smoking...

[whopis01]

45. Surely you can't be serious.

[Wounded Bear]

46. I am, and don't call me Shirley...nt

[ItsjustMe]

6. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218217960

[PatSeg]

30. Except Trump is a wimp

pretending to be dangerously deranged. He thinks he's in a friggin' movie.

[ms liberty]

36. I shared that on the book of face earlier. Lol. I'm enjoying myself. n/t

[hatrack]

7. His eyes are dilated as FUCK . . . .

[Maru Kitteh]

10. They look to be about 3mm which is pretty average. nt

[wnylib]

12. Looks to me like the iris is barely visible because

of the size of the pupils. His eyes are blue, but you can't tell from the picture.

My pupils are larger than average, and have been all my life. In my case, it has nothing to do with drugs. But you can still see the irises.

I once worked in an optical office. I have seen many eyes close up. Trump's pupils look dilated to me.

[Maru Kitteh]

42. I can't account for the fidelity of your monitor, but his pupils are easily visible in the photo.

I am a registered nurse. I've done hundreds of neurological examinations to include persons on all kinds of substances. There are photos and footage of Trump where his pupils are like saucers. This is not one of them.

[wnylib]

43. I'm viewing it from my phone. I enlarged the pic to see it more clearly.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

8. Movie reference seems apropos...

[NewHendoLib]

9. And...

https://images.app.goo.gl/EZyM56NjMEr8vUpM7


https://images.app.goo.gl/RHrfkHPzcMf6ChER7

[Clash City Rocker]

11. I was commenting on this yesterday on another message board

I love that you picked up on it too.

For the stare to really project menace, you have to look angry, indifferent, or amused. Trump looks scared. You can see it in his eyes. So it doesn’t make him look as badass as he wanted.

[NNadir]

13. This needs to get to the greatest page quickly. K&R.

[murielm99]

14. I don't recognize the one in the middle.

Who is it?

[Richard D]

16. Vincent D'Onofrio

From Full Metal Jacket - Private Gomer Pyle.

[murielm99]

18. Thank you.

I like him and I have seen the movie. He looks young there.

[ECL213]

15. They key to Kubrick stare...

is the white of they eye showing at the bottom. Trump just looks like some asshole who just got arrested for shooting at kids to get them off of his lawn. "How dare you do this to me!"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. I've heard it called the psychopathic look, and "canoe eyes" (white at bottom like canoe shape) . . . . nt

[CaptainTruth]

17. Am I the only one who wants to smack him?

[Fla Dem]

19. What a child.

A pouty stare a child would give to their parent when told "NO".

[Aviation Pro]

20. From top to bottom

1. Alex
2. Private Pyle
3. Jaaaack
4. Motherfucker

[Omnipresent]

22. That last one, looks like he protested..

But was told to do something, that he deemed humiliating.
Tfg better get used to being told what to do, or else.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. An act. Was determined to look defiant, and used it that way in social media posts afterwards (fundraising). nt

[Omnipresent]

26. Still...

He looks like a little boy, that’s been given a time out for being bad.

[MontanaMama]

31. I saw it used for fundraising already...

This pic with the words Never Surrender underneath. Ironic since this photo was taken when he actually surrendered. You can’t make this up.

[Hekate]

24. I am impressed at how the OP and others caught this aspect of the pose

[sarchasm]

27. Same look my mom gave us...

...right before she said, "If you boys don't settle down now, I'm gonna turn this car around and we"ll ALL go home!"

[PatSeg]

28. Brilliant!

In his dreams of course. He is a Kubrick villain wannabe.

[IronLionZion]

29. Demonic psychopath

[edbermac]

33. Wonder what the director of Dr. Strangelove would make of Trump

And I’m sure he’d have a place for him wandering around the mansion in Eyes Wide Shut

[FailureToCommunicate]

34. To his bathroom mirror, for days...

[Snackshack]

37. 🖕him.

I’ve never felt this primal urge to punch my phone like I have w/ other humans at times but looking at the mug shot of DT makes me want to do just that.

Hey DT -🖕U POS SOB even if you do some how manage to weasel your way out of the accountability you so desperately deserve this image will always remain forever in the “internets”. It will follow you like an Albatross around your neck for the rest of your pathetic life.

Congratulations you always want to point out how tremendously beautiful, like nothing else in history you are in your never ending diatribes… well now you have truly succeeded. You will forever be the only person to ever phuck up so monumentally (except for possibly, America’s so called “mayor”, you phucked him good). I mean on a scale unheard of - 70+ felony charges, 4 to 5 indictments all while you were President of these United States you phucking idiot where everything is basically handed / catered to you. In that world you managed to be the same phucked up narcissist you’ve always been and if you ever doubt this all you need to do is look at that photo.

In the 1530’s in a city called Münster 3 men were delivered their sentences for a coup they were part of in that city… Standing in front of all Americans on national TV you took an oath to “protect and defend” the Constitution. You knowingly broke that oath and willingly subverted our governing to benefit…You…not the Constitution not the Country nor its Citizens… You… for that you deserve no less then what those 3 men were given. Over 1.1million + Americans died while you thought only of you, you actually deserve much worse…

[Fullduplexxx]

39. wow yea no kidding - kubrick i wonder if trump refers to his gang as droogs

[Upthevibe]

40. edhopper.......

Thanks for the post...........

[Borderer]

41. I am sure it was deliberate -

I had exactly the same thought about the Kubrick stare, and Alex from A Clockwork Orange was the first thing to come to mind. maybe it was the "orange".

He's had weeks to prepare for this mugshot, and he is so vain that a lot of thought will have gone into what expression to have. He knows that this image is going to follow him for the rest of his life (or at least until one with an orange jumpsuit becomes available).
Certainly he will have had will PR advice and it wouldn't surprise me if there had been a focus group (given that they went so far as to issue a fake mugshot in one of their fundraising messages weeks ago). He will have been pouting at himself in the mirror for days to get the best look. He obviously wanted "angry". Maybe the head-forward posture hides his double chin.

[nolabear]

44. The man knew a psychopath!

Brilliant association.

[allegorical oracle]

47. Took an oil painting portraiture course. The instructor pointed out that all of us have

"two eye personalities" -- one is fierce, one is unsure, possibly fearful. Has to do with facial asymmetry. As I look at this pic, I see his left eye (right to the viewer) is the unsure eye; the other is his fierce/angry eye. At his age it's etched into his face and it's particularly revealing. He's a scary dude.