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The real David Ferrie


There are only a couple of images that give me the creeps if I happen to see them. One is the pazuzu face of The Exorcist (understandably, I guess). The other is (real) David Ferrie's mugshot.
He looks really weird, and not just the obviously painted eyebrows. His eyes look very strange, like his pupils are too big or something. And he has an empty expression, like cold and sinister. Scary character.
Joe Pesci's performance, though superb, it's almost comic sometimes and does not convey that sense of danger that I get from just seeing this mugshot.
Does anyone feel the same?

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I completely agree. Generally you can't judge a book by its cover, to use the cliched expression, but sometimes you can tell right away that someone is a dangerous person. Ferrie was a scary bastard. Right-wing terrorist. Apparently he was a pedophile too. Really nasty character.

Pesci did a brilliant job playing him though.

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pesci bullied Sinead O'Connor because she protested the vatican on SNL for their covering up sex abuse

he was a pedophile

Really nasty character.

Pesci did a brilliant job

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The real David Ferrie wore a wig of his own construction, which was a bizarre patch job that makes him look like he was just electrocuted. It was more creepy-looking than his eyebrows, according to people who knew him. Pesci's wig is strange, sure enough, but it looks professionally put together. It's only obviously a wig when it comes loose in scenes when he's agitated.

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This is real David Ferri's voice. Real creep btw
https://youtu.be/bLrhRzw0BiM

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He does look weird.

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I honestly think he was in the occult.

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Would not be surprising.

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100% agree on this one.

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