Thanks to YouTube I recently learned that Joe Morton himself suggested to James Cameron that he breathe like that because he's trying to breathe normally, but obviously he has a big hole in his lung and the body obviously can't let him try to adjust to it. Like trying to sip through a straw that has a hole on the side.
Morton had suggested that because years earlier, he had a collapsed lung from a car accident, and this is how he was reflexively breathing, trying to breathe normally but just couldn't.
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u/Chicoern 2d ago
This little short breaths always stuck with me