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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: oilgun on February 05, 2015, 02:33:14 am ---RE: Life: I have a copy of Stark's book so I'm a bit worried about the casting of Dane Dehaan as James Dean. I don't mind that he doesn't look like him, it's just that he looks like a teenager – a kind of Gilbert Grape Dicaprio - while Dean looked older for his age. We'll see. I never did see James Franco's James Dean but I suspect he was pretty good in the role.
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Sure enough, when I glanced at your post before reading the text I thought for a sec those were pictures of stars when they were younger and the middle one was LD. Then I noticed Pattinson and Dean and saw that they weren't younger. Both of them, in those three pictures, look about 10 years older than the middle guy.
Front-Ranger:
I'm not sure a person's age should matter in the movie business. It's acting, after all. And in this age of makeup and special effects, it should matter even less. I'm remembering that Anne Bancroft did a good job as Dustin Hoffman's mother even though she was only six years older than him in The Graduate. And I could cite many other examples, including our own Heath Ledger, who convincingly aged 20 years in Brokeback Mountain.
oilgun:
I haven't seen Dehaan in anything but with that baby face he better be a great actor if he wants to emulate James Dean.
southendmd:
James Franco (didn't see it)
James Preston (saw it and wished I hadn't)
Dane Deehan (who knows?)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 05, 2015, 01:00:01 pm ---I'm not sure a person's age should matter in the movie business. It's acting, after all. And in this age of makeup and special effects, it should matter even less. I'm remembering that Anne Bancroft did a good job as Dustin Hoffman's mother even though she was only six years older than him in The Graduate. And I could cite many other examples, including our own Heath Ledger, who convincingly aged 20 years in Brokeback Mountain.
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His lover, but of his mother's generation. Anyway, yes, that worked, partly because her bone structure makes her look oldish and because she actually was practically playing her age -- the mother of an 18-year-old could pretty easily be 36 or just a year or two above. But he ... well, at 30 he was very convincing as a recent college graduate.
Another example: Sally Field played Tom Hanks' mother and is only 10 years older.
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