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- This film is based on a play (also written by Thornton) and there are many scenes that feel like they are staged more to be seen on a stage vs a screen, like, for example one of the first scenes where Childers recounts his life story.
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Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton. Set in Arkansas, it is the story of intellectually challenged Karl Childers and the friendship he develops with a boy and his mother.
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- KARL WAS BORN FROM BILLY BOB THORNTON'S FRUSTRATION WITH A MADE-FOR-CABLE MOVIE. Daniel Mann, Thornton’s director on 1987’s The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains, insisted he “overact” for all five of his lines.
- BEFORE THE FEATURE, THERE WAS A SHORT FILM TITLED SOME FOLKS CALL IT A SLING BLADE FEATURING MOLLY RINGWALD. The 29-minute movie was released in 1994, written by Thornton and directed by George Hickenlooper.
- THORNTON WROTE THE SCRIPT IN LONGHAND, MOSTLY ON THE SET OF A SITCOM. The show was titled Hearts Afire, which Thornton starred in alongside Sling Blade co-star John Ritter.
- VAUGHAN WAS BASED ON A CHOIR LEADER IN AN ARKANSAS CHURCH. Thornton also wrote the character with his friend Ritter in mind, knowing he could handle the rhythm of Vaughan’s words.
Speaking in a deep lilt, accompanied with the occasional, guttural, “mmm-hmm,” the character was a true cinematic original. The Plot. In Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton was the writer, director, and star, and he adapted the film from his earlier short, Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade.
Sling Blade: Directed by Billy Bob Thornton. With Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter. Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
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- 1997-03-14
Mentally disabled Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is released from the mental hospital where he has spent most of his life after murdering his mother and her lover. He soon forms a bond with...
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Nov 26, 2021 · Released nationally on Nov. 27, 1996, the movie, filmed in and around Benton in May 1995, was the creation of Arkansas native, actor and musician, Billy Bob Thornton, who adapted it from his 1994...
Synopsis. The movie opens in an asylum, where Charles (J.T. Walsh) talks to Karl (Billy Bob Thornton) about cars and women. Two student reporters Marsha (Sarah Boss) and Theresa (Kathy Sue Brown) arrive to interview Karl, who has committed murder, and is due to be released soon.
