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Actors with ruined faces

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Bobby Roberts

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Eidan said:
I know this story, but I swear I can never tell the difference before and after. Can someone spell it out for me?
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The story is that his nose was pretty much taken completely off his face, but I remember Hamill addressing that later and saying he basically just broke his nose and his cheek.

This is Mark Hamill in 1977:
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This is him, post facial surgery after car-crash
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Basically, his nose kinda tilts to the right now. That's about it.
 
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Muffdraul

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Escape Goat said:
It did not "mangle his face". Good grief. My point was that he used a pic from 1977 and one from 2013.

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Oh, his face was mangled all right. I remember him saying something about the surgeons having to dig teeth out of his sinus cavity. They put him back together and did a pretty good job of it, but he ended up with a different face. If someone can't look at Star Wars Hamill and Empire Strikes Back Hamill and not see the difference, no amount of explaining I could do would change their mind.
 
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akira28

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Muffdraul said:
Oh, his face was mangled all right. I remember him saying something about the surgeons having to dig teeth out of his sinus cavity. They put him back together and did a pretty good job of it, but he ended up with a different face. If someone can't look at Star Wars Hamill and Empire Strikes Back Hamill and not see the difference, no amount of explaining I could do would change their mind.
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Yeah I remember asking my dad what was wrong with his face, and he told me he had been affected by the Dark side. I was like 'oh.'
 
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Escape Goat

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Muffdraul said:
Oh, his face was mangled all right. I remember him saying something about the surgeons having to dig teeth out of his sinus cavity. They put him back together and did a pretty good job of it, but he ended up with a different face. If someone can't look at Star Wars Hamill and Empire Strikes Back Hamill and not see the difference, no amount of explaining I could do would change their mind.
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The thread was about people who have ruined faces. He doesn't look bad at all post surgery.
 
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Muffdraul

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Escape Goat said:
The thread was about people who have ruined faces. He doesn't look bad at all post surgery.
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His face is "ruined" in that his original natural face was destroyed and replaced with a reconstructed one. It doesn't have to mean that he became a hideous monster.
 
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Escape Goat

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women also face an earlier sell by date when compared to men in Hollywood. I imagine they are under more pressure to remain attractive so they still get roles. How many times have we seen the old man with a hot, young wife?
 
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Bobby Roberts

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Muffdraul said:
Oh, his face was mangled all right. I remember him saying something about the surgeons having to dig teeth out of his sinus cavity. They put him back together and did a pretty good job of it, but he ended up with a different face. If someone can't look at Star Wars Hamill and Empire Strikes Back Hamill and not see the difference, no amount of explaining I could do would change their mind.
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His face wasnt' mangled. He broke his nose and his cheek.
 
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FatboyRoberts said:
His face wasnt' mangled. He broke his nose and his cheek.
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I'm starting to think Hamill toned down his description of what happened over the years. When I was a kid in the late 70s, I remember him describing it a lot worse, as I mentioned previously.

I know for a fact he didn't just "break" his nose. The cartilage was gone and replaced by an implant.
 
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akira28

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Medical professional says he can give you the fountain of youth, or at least buy you a few years. People willing to believe it.
 
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speculawyer

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The more I think about it, the more I realize that this plastic surgery stuff just doesn't work.

I'm sure with a few people, some minor operations work out OK.

But it is such a huge risk. You are gambling looking a bit old to looking like a freak. And a lot of these people now just look like freaks. And once you get that freak look, you pretty much can't go back.
 
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speculawyer

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NathanMcMahon said:
Destroyed her career:

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This is a weird case. She actually looked more attractive post surgery, IMHO but she lost her distinctive look and thus became more anonymous. A very strange back-fire.

(BTW, I don't think the above is a fair comparison . . . I think that after shot is more than a decade after the surgery.
 
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NathanMcMahon

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speculawyer said:
The more I think about it, the more I realize that this plastic surgery stuff just doesn't work.

I'm sure with a few people, some minor operations work out OK.

But it is such a huge risk. You are gambling looking a bit old to looking like a freak. And a lot of these people now just look like freaks. And once you get that freak look, you pretty much can't go back.
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Michelle Pfeiffer's seems to be okay

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blame space

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michelle pfifer was a question on jeopardy! tonight. i think she was the first most beautiful person by People or something. i couldn't think of her name so I shouted out DANGEROUS MINDS!
 
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Jarnet87

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Travolta and Hanks look absolutely hideous when they grow out their hair. Facially they look pretty much the same just older and fatter.
 
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jambo

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Seance said:
Pretty sure half his face is paralyzed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAx5gsd_J6Q
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Complications his mother suffered during labor forced her obstetricians to use two pairs of forceps during his birth; misuse of these accidentally severed a nerve and caused paralysis in parts of Stallone's face. As a result, the lower left side of his face is paralyzed – including parts of his lip, tongue, and chin – an accident which has given Stallone his snarling look and slightly slurred speech.
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demon

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Jarnet87 said:
Travolta and Hanks look absolutely hideous when they grow out their hair. Facially they look pretty much the same just older and fatter.
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Yeah Tom Hank's bird-like hair in Da Vinci Code kinda invalidated everybody's arguments.
 
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