This was the last movie me and my brother watched together before he was murdered in 2002. Every time I watch it I think of my brother Chuckie Ross. I miss you and love you so much brother, until we meet again.
Having seen the movie now I can see that Billy Bob perfected his character to a much greater degree than what was shown here. He slowed his speech in the movie and had much more character in is face and movements. He is such an artist!! Thanks for showing us this short!
brilliant to end the film with someone from knbr calling a giants-dodger game instead of with music, but weird to hear it in a short movie set in arkansas..... thanks for posting this. just finished watching sling blade and wanted to gobble up anything else about the show. i can’t see myself ever forgetting karl. BBT is an awesome writer and brilliant actor.
@DarkRenaissance Now that you mention it... I've always wondered why Molly had appeared in this "short" but not the feature film (as did many of the other main actors / stars like JT Walsh)?? I had half-suspected that it might have been because BBT wanted a mostly Arkansas-based cast... but, now that you mentioned it, maybe Molly just passed on the role. Hmmmmm🤔
Maybe it was a metaphor for the sometimes unfriendly world he was about to enter. Movie makers often do stuff like this. But you are right, it was abnormally aggressive behavior for that nervous "Jerry Woolridge" character.
You're probably thinking of the movie "Sling Blade" (as opposed to this one, which is "Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade"). "Sling Blade" was a feature length film created by Billy Bob Thornton a couple of years after this one, and it builds upon the same story. It also stars Thornton as well as T.J.Walsh, but unfortunately Molly Ringwald is gone. Both are great films.
Brian Battles no shit..... like letting a napkin loose in a windstorm and assuming the napkin will be in one piece the next day...... the funny thing is karl was actually doing well until dwight yokam came into his life...... cursed long neck beer drinking dwight.....
Well they look alike, even the haircut s the same. This may not be coincidence, Molly Ringwald plays the reporter and the girl of facts of life may have been cast as a Molly Ringwald type as she was quite big in the early 80's.
I'm guessing because this was a short film they didn't have the time to drag it out as much but I don't know. Could have been direction from the film-makers when it was made into a feature film
Great big lie, bought two of those china horn's and the sound that came from both are "Nothing" as loud as shown on the add, don't waste your money (JUNK)
As far as Carl being convinced that his parents lied to him about the Bible saying that "sex is bad"... ...actually, that is not exactly a lie as the Bible does indeed forbid sex taken out of its appropriate context (ie, a man married to a woman / between a husband & wife). Though I wonder if his parents twisted the Bible's teaching on that issue and otherwise intentionally deceived Karl as a way of them trying to "explain" or "justifying" their abuse and mistreatment of both him as well as his aborted younger brother (being that he and his brother were, of course, the result of his parents having sex)... especially... once a young Karl inevitably started growing and getting to an age when he would begin asking questions about his tragic lot in life what they were doing to him... and, like any true cruel abuser(s)... Karl's parents likely twisted their answers in such a way that they made it appear as if it was a young Karl's fault. Along with this "short version" explaining more on what Karl was talking about when he confronted his father about the apparent false-teaching (that they lied about being in the Bible) and why they forced him to be in the shed and away from everybody else. I also always wondered what Karl meant when the kids at the school house (especially that a**-hole Jesse Dixon) would say slick things to Karl, like: "Your mother's a real pretty woman". Obviously... they meant more by it than just a simple "compliment" and knowing how smart-ass teen-boys can be... I think they might have been implying that Karl's mom was either a "Milf" and who probably didn't hide the fact that she liked the attention she got from the teen boys as "the pretty mom"... Or (maybe even worse), she must have already had a bit of a reputation for being the town "gardening tool" who was known for "tossing a$$ up" (especially for the teen boys in town)... and which would go a long way in explaining how & why Karl ended up finding his mother the way he did with Jesse Dixon. The irony being that Carl killed both his mother and her lover, Jesse Dixon, for committing adultery practically in plain-site for him to see (even after Karl's mother apparently had the gall and the audacity to deliberately deceive her son about why they mistreated him the way they did... as if it was his fault). The more I reflect and glean insights into the background of this movie... I'm not sure which of these characters are the worst of the worst: Old-Man Dixon... his boy (that asshole) Jesse Dixon... or Karl's own mother and father.
Alex Durst, I thought she was very good in this film. One thing that seems unrealistic to me is having a guy as quirky as Woolridge being the head of an institution like this.
@@joemag6032 Not as unrealistic as you might think. I had occasion to go out on calls to our local mental health treatment facility several times. It was sometime difficult to distinguish between the patients and the staff. No joke.
wow, Molly is bad in this I woulda appreciated at least a little exposition on the whole 'sex is bad' thing they had in here in 'Slingblade'. In the movie all you get is 'I read the bible, what you told me wasn't in there', no background. In this thing I'm like, 'his mom got what she deserved for teaching him bad things' hell, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe they couldn't fit the exposition in the film seemlessly, who knows. Hard to critique 'Slingblade' tho, film is epic
As far as Carl being convinced that his parents lied to him about the Bible saying that "sex is bad"... ...actually, that is not exactly a lie as the Bible does indeed forbid sex taken out of its appropriate context ( ie, a man married to a woman / between a husband & wife ). Though I wonder if his parents twisted the Bible's teaching on that issue and otherwise intentionally deceived Karl as a way of them trying to "explain" or "justifying" their abuse and mistreatment of both him as well as his aborted younger brother (being that he and his brother were, of course, the result of his parents having sex)... especially once a young Karl inevitably started growing and getting to an age when he would begin asking questions about his tragic lot in life what they were doing to him... and, like any true abuser(s)... Karl's parents twisted their answers in such a way that they made it appear as if it was young Karl's fault. Along with this "short version" explaining more on what Karl was talking about when he confronted his father about the apparent false-teaching (that they lied about being in the Bible) and why they forced him to be in the shed... I also wonder what Karl meant when the kids at the school house (especially that a**-hole Jesse Dixon) would say slick things to Karl, like: "Your mother's a real pretty woman". Obviously... they meant more by it than just a simple "compliment" and knowing how smart-ass teen-boys can be... I think they might have been implying that Karl's mom was either a "Milf" and who probably didn't hide the fact that she liked the attention she got from the teen boys as "the pretty mom"... Or (maybe even worse), she must have already had a bit of a reputation for being the town "gardening tool" who was known for tossing a$$ up especially for the teen boys in town... and which would go a long way in explaining how & why Karl ended up finding his mother the way he did with Jesse Dixon. The irony being that Carl killed both his mother and her lover, Jesse Dixon, for committing adultery practically in plain-site for him to see (even after Karl's mother had the audacity to deliberately deceive her son about why they mistreated him the way they did). The more I think on and glean insights into the background of this movie... I'm not sure what characters are the worst of the worst: Old-Man Dixon... his boy (that asshole), Jesse Dixon... or Karl's own mother and father.
Cant believe I never saw this before. This led up to one of the greatest films of all time
This was the last movie me and my brother watched together before he was murdered in 2002. Every time I watch it I think of my brother Chuckie Ross. I miss you and love you so much brother, until we meet again.
Rest in Peace, "Little Feller"💝😢
Sorry for your loss
It's a beautiful movie.
If u don mind me askin, howd he die?
@@styleprince9338 He said he was murdered…..
Bill Bob should have gotten an Oscar for his portrayal.
I agree. Brilliant portrayal.
It was great. And the fame he got from this was better than a lot people got who had won the Oscar.
I’ve watched this movie a time or two. I didn’t understand it all, but I understood some mmm.
I REKON IM A FEELIN THE SAMA WAYS.......MMMHMMM
Some folks call it a classic, I call it a masterpiece. Mmhm.
Having seen the movie now I can see that Billy Bob perfected his character to a much greater degree than what was shown here. He slowed his speech in the movie and had much more character in is face and movements. He is such an artist!! Thanks for showing us this short!
Top 5!! one movie I almost didn't sit thru 'cause it started slow.. Now It's an all time favorite.
Great watch! I remember seeing this when the movie first came out. Very cool film! This is broken into three parts...Be sure to see them all in order.
brilliant to end the film with someone from knbr calling a giants-dodger game instead of with music, but weird to hear it in a short movie set in arkansas..... thanks for posting this. just finished watching sling blade and wanted to gobble up anything else about the show. i can’t see myself ever forgetting karl. BBT is an awesome writer and brilliant actor.
Is this the best English language short film created during my lifetime? I say yes.
I believe this film is like prequel to Sling Blade and was filmed in B&W.
I bet Ringwald is kicking herself in the ass for not signing on with the full Movie remake! :)
@DarkRenaissance
Now that you mention it...
I've always wondered why Molly
had appeared in this "short"
but not the feature film
(as did many of the other main
actors / stars like JT Walsh)??
I had half-suspected that it might
have been because BBT wanted
a mostly Arkansas-based cast...
but, now that you mentioned it,
maybe Molly just passed on the role.
Hmmmmm🤔
That piano touches me.
That was excellent. Wonderful performances and direction.
Glad this made enough money so we could see Karl's story played out
Part two is coming out
This was made before Sling Blade. Thornton expanded it for the film.
Brilliant.
Anyone else felt like the bookkeeper grabbing Carl arm seemed a bit aggressive?
Maybe it was a metaphor for the sometimes unfriendly world he was about to enter. Movie makers often do stuff like this. But you are right, it was abnormally aggressive behavior for that nervous "Jerry Woolridge" character.
Does anyone else hear the background noises during the baseball broadcast? Creepy!
Awesome.
You're probably thinking of the movie "Sling Blade" (as opposed to this one, which is "Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade"). "Sling Blade" was a feature length film created by Billy Bob Thornton a couple of years after this one, and it builds upon the same story. It also stars Thornton as well as T.J.Walsh, but unfortunately Molly Ringwald is gone. Both are great films.
Woolridge reminds me of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory
i like her..and is there a full colored version of this somewhere on youtube?
ty
Pretty weird to just open the door and let a guy like that just walk off alone and broke into the world
Brian Battles no shit..... like letting a napkin loose in a windstorm and assuming the napkin will be in one piece the next day...... the funny thing is karl was actually doing well until dwight yokam came into his life...... cursed long neck beer drinking dwight.....
I think it happens all the time.
People get released from prisons
and institutions all the time
to an uncertain future.
I thought the movie went longer than this.
This was the short film done a couple of years before the feature film.
AWE RIGHT THEM.............
It's too bad there isn't a Twilight Zone or some TV forum where shorts like this could see a larger audience. Hey call my agent.
That one girl reminds me of a girl that was on the first season of Fact of Life for some odd reason.
Well they look alike, even the haircut s the same. This may not be coincidence, Molly Ringwald plays the reporter and the girl of facts of life may have been cast as a Molly Ringwald type as she was quite big in the early 80's.
Molly Ringwald WAS on the first season of "Facts of Life". Her character was Molly Parker.
@@Dallas_K Well, there you go. My sister was the 'Facts of Life' fan.
i think you hafta but it to get it on here...know any free movie sites?
Cont. In the full length movie.
I wonder why JT Walsh read his lines so quickly in this version. Was he directed to slow it down or did do it on his own?
He's playing a crazy person...
@@floydvaughn9666 by any definition humanity is with crazy this person was likely one of the very few sane ones who did the right thing
I'm guessing because this was a short film they didn't have the time to drag it out as much but I don't know. Could have been direction from the film-makers when it was made into a feature film
That wasn't the end of the movie
Mmmm..alright den.
alright, den
Great big lie, bought two of those china horn's and the sound that came from both are "Nothing" as loud as shown on the add, don't waste your money (JUNK)
Before.
As far as Carl being convinced
that his parents lied to him
about the Bible saying that
"sex is bad"...
...actually,
that is not exactly a lie
as the Bible does indeed forbid sex
taken out of its appropriate context
(ie, a man married to a woman /
between a husband & wife).
Though I wonder if his parents
twisted the Bible's teaching
on that issue and otherwise
intentionally deceived Karl
as a way of them trying to
"explain" or "justifying"
their abuse and mistreatment
of both him as well as his
aborted younger brother
(being that he and his brother
were, of course, the result
of his parents having sex)...
especially...
once a young Karl
inevitably started growing
and getting to an age
when he would begin
asking questions about
his tragic lot in life what
they were doing to him...
and, like any true
cruel abuser(s)...
Karl's parents likely
twisted their answers
in such a way that they made it
appear as if it was a young Karl's fault.
Along with this "short version"
explaining more on what Karl
was talking about when he
confronted his father about
the apparent false-teaching
(that they lied about being in the Bible)
and why they forced him
to be in the shed and away
from everybody else.
I also always wondered
what Karl meant when
the kids at the school house
(especially that a**-hole Jesse Dixon)
would say slick things to Karl, like:
"Your mother's a real pretty woman".
Obviously...
they meant more by it than
just a simple "compliment"
and knowing how smart-ass
teen-boys can be...
I think they might have been implying
that Karl's mom was either a "Milf"
and who probably didn't hide the fact
that she liked the attention she got
from the teen boys as "the pretty mom"...
Or (maybe even worse),
she must have already
had a bit of a reputation for
being the town "gardening tool"
who was known for "tossing a$$ up"
(especially for the teen boys in town)...
and which would
go a long way in explaining
how & why Karl ended up finding his
mother the way he did with Jesse Dixon.
The irony being that Carl killed
both his mother and her lover,
Jesse Dixon, for committing adultery
practically in plain-site for him to see
(even after Karl's mother
apparently had the gall and
the audacity to deliberately
deceive her son about why they
mistreated him the way they did...
as if it was his fault).
The more I reflect and glean
insights into the background
of this movie...
I'm not sure which of
these characters are
the worst of the worst:
Old-Man Dixon...
his boy
(that asshole)
Jesse Dixon...
or Karl's own mother and father.
His mother and his father. they let all of this happen. Carl is a good man.
was this made before or after sling blade
jeremy flynn Before
good golly Mrs Molly sure give me sum wood
molly is the star of this film
Alex Durst, I thought she was very good in this film. One thing that seems unrealistic to me is having a guy as quirky as Woolridge being the head of an institution like this.
@@joemag6032 Not as unrealistic as you might think. I had occasion to go out on calls to our local mental health treatment facility several times. It was sometime difficult to distinguish between the patients and the staff. No joke.
Mhmm
wow, Molly is bad in this
I woulda appreciated at least a little exposition on the whole 'sex is bad' thing they had in here in 'Slingblade'. In the movie all you get is 'I read the bible, what you told me wasn't in there', no background.
In this thing I'm like, 'his mom got what she deserved for teaching him bad things'
hell, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe they couldn't fit the exposition in the film seemlessly, who knows. Hard to critique 'Slingblade' tho, film is epic
As far as Carl being convinced
that his parents lied to him
about the Bible saying that
"sex is bad"...
...actually,
that is not exactly a lie
as the Bible does indeed forbid sex
taken out of its appropriate context
( ie, a man married to a woman /
between a husband & wife ).
Though I wonder if his parents twisted the Bible's teaching
on that issue and otherwise
intentionally deceived Karl
as a way of them trying to
"explain" or "justifying"
their abuse and mistreatment
of both him as well as his
aborted younger brother
(being that he and his brother
were, of course, the result
of his parents having sex)...
especially once a young Karl
inevitably started growing and
getting to an age when he would
begin asking questions about
his tragic lot in life what
they were doing to him...
and, like any true abuser(s)...
Karl's parents twisted their answers
in such a way that they made it
appear as if it was young Karl's fault.
Along with this "short version"
explaining more on what
Karl was talking about when
he confronted his father about
the apparent false-teaching
(that they lied about being in the Bible)
and why they forced him to be in the shed...
I also wonder what Karl meant
when the kids at the school house
(especially that a**-hole Jesse Dixon)
would say slick things to Karl, like:
"Your mother's a real pretty woman".
Obviously...
they meant more by it than
just a simple "compliment"
and knowing how smart-ass
teen-boys can be...
I think they might have been implying
that Karl's mom was either a "Milf"
and who probably didn't hide the fact
that she liked the attention she got
from the teen boys as "the pretty mom"...
Or (maybe even worse),
she must have already had a bit of a
reputation for being the town "gardening tool"
who was known for tossing a$$ up
especially for the teen boys in town...
and which would go a long way in explaining
how & why Karl ended up finding his
mother the way he did with Jesse Dixon.
The irony being that Carl killed
both his mother and her lover,
Jesse Dixon, for committing adultery
practically in plain-site for him to see
(even after Karl's mother had
the audacity to deliberately
deceive her son about why
they mistreated him the way
they did).
The more I think on and glean insights
into the background of this movie...
I'm not sure what characters
are the worst of the worst:
Old-Man Dixon...
his boy
(that asshole),
Jesse Dixon...
or Karl's own mother and father.
try movie2k
Good call on bringing in James Hampton to play Jerry. This guy sucked.
I'm glad Molly Ringwald wasn't in the feature film. She's a mediocre actress and would've ruined the it.
I can't watch this out of focus shit. Who's idea was that. Fire him immediately.. i don't care where he works now. Just fire him.
That would be the creator of both this original short film and its subsequent full length version (Sling Blade), Billy Bob Thornton