I can't believe how old he looks in these - still sexy as hell, though. It must be the hair and glasses cuz he didn't look this old in the premiere photos.
for all the fact that his eyes are green but sometimes appear blue - other thank 'The Big Empty' I can't recall any other instance where his eye color was changed via contacts - more than likely it is simply that his eyes appear blue under the right conditions including mood, ambient lighting, background and clothing color
That makes sense. Lighting and clothing colour always makes things appear different. Also, I have green eyes but I used to have blue eyes...sometimes they seem more blue than green. :P The Big Empty were obviously contacts cos they were REALLY blue.
I mentioned this just recently on a Ewan McGregor LJ community (another person with very changeable eyes)
a fellow discussion list member gave us the low down from her university biology professor - they were studying genetics and the effects on eye color and she asked 'changeable eye color'
he told her that there is basis in hard biology for the reason some peoples eyes change more than others AND that mood can in fact be a factor
certain eye colors (greens, blues and greys - usually) are lighter to start with and the retina will reflect back ambient light sources (which can be affected by background color and clothing color as well) - this affecting the appearance of the color in the eye
plus changes in mood - affects blood flow not only to the retina but in how much or how little the pupil is dialated - this further affecting how much light is reflected from the retina and therefore affecting apparent eye color
so it is possible that when someone is very angry or very happy or some other mood that their eyes will seem a different color
sorry for that probably way more than you ever wanted to know about eye color
LOL, no that was fine. When I did Biology, we studied the eye and they said that mood was a possible determining factor when eyes change colour but i knew there were other possible ways. :P
So it's possible even if Sean's eyes are green, they can use eye colour to express some hightened form of emotion...if the film-mkaer wanted too.
Hahaha, who'd have thought talking about Sean Bean would lead to a science discussion. Very cool :D
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a fellow discussion list member gave us the low down from her university biology professor - they were studying genetics and the effects on eye color and she asked 'changeable eye color'
he told her that there is basis in hard biology for the reason some peoples eyes change more than others AND that mood can in fact be a factor
certain eye colors (greens, blues and greys - usually) are lighter to start with and the retina will reflect back ambient light sources (which can be affected by background color and clothing color as well) - this affecting the appearance of the color in the eye
plus changes in mood - affects blood flow not only to the retina but in how much or how little the pupil is dialated - this further affecting how much light is reflected from the retina and therefore affecting apparent eye color
so it is possible that when someone is very angry or very happy or some other mood that their eyes will seem a different color
sorry for that probably way more than you ever wanted to know about eye color
So it's possible even if Sean's eyes are green, they can use eye colour to express some hightened form of emotion...if the film-mkaer wanted too.
Hahaha, who'd have thought talking about Sean Bean would lead to a science discussion. Very cool :D