What Does Sling Blade Have to Do With TikTok?
Billy Bob Thornton was an actor who was frustrated with the film industry. And as most actors do, they make the film that they want to star in. From this frustration, he started to create the character of Karl. He worked the character into a one man show, Swine Before Pearls. After performing this one man show, he raised money to make a short film called Some Folks Call It A Sling Blade. Thornton got a role on the CBS Sitcom Hearts Afire with John Ritter. He made the finishing touches on the Oscar Winning script while sitting at this mother's dining table. While taking this movie and shopping it around Hollywood. His feature link film version "Sling Blade" was filmed in 24 days in Benton, Arkansas and it brought in $24 Million dollars after having a $1 million dollar budget. The distribution rights were sold for another $10 million. This film went from MONOLOGUE to ONE MAN SHOW to SHORT FILM to FULL LENGTH FILM and won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Adapted S...