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Jun 28, 2020 - 7:15 AM
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fmfan1
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As I re-watch the James Bond series - this time, with my daughter - I am noticing something about Sean Connery's bearing, maturity, and/or gravity that makes it seem like he is older than 32 years (as he is in Dr. No). Certainly, Matt Damon, at around 32 years old in The Bourne Identity, comes across as more youthful. This has not been an isolated case in my experience. I am surprised, again and again, at the relatively young age of actors of the past. Jonathan Harris was only 51 when he portrayed Dr. Smith in Lost in Space. It is inconceivable that I'm about the same age as Dr. Smith - at least when I look in the mirror it is! Sure, I know, make-up and all, and of course I'm cherry-picking examples. But I think there's something more to it. Shatner was about 35 when he first portrayed Kirk, and Chris Pine is older than that in his last Star Trek film. Still, season 1 of original Kirk seems more mature than film 3 of new Kirk. Could this be the result of a different acting approach (more like stage acting) in yesteryear? Is there something to this, or am I seeing something that's not really there?
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Jun 28, 2020 - 7:27 AM
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OnyaBirri
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As I re-watch the James Bond series - this time, with my daughter - I am noticing something about Sean Connery's bearing, maturity, and/or gravity that makes it seem like he is older than 32 years (as he is in Dr. No). Certainly, Matt Damon, at around 32 years old in The Bourne Identity, comes across as more youthful. This has not been an isolated case in my experience. I am surprised, again and again, at the relatively young age of actors of he past. Jonathan Harris was only 51 when he portrayed Dr. Smith in Lost in Space. It is inconceivable that I'm about the same age as Dr. Smith - at least when I look in the mirror it is! Sure, I know, make-up and all, and of course I'm cherry-picking examples. But I think there's something more to it. Shatner was about 35 when he first portrayed Kirk, and Chris Pine is older than that in his last Star Trek film. Still, season 1 of original Kirk seems more mature than film 3 of new Kirk. Could this be the result of a different acting approach (more like stage acting) in yesteryear? Is there something to this, or am I seeing something that's not really there? it was generational. People of that era lived through the Depression, Jim Crow, WWII, the Holocaust, the Atom Bomb. Age was a badge of honor in many ways. It was the Baby Boomers who tried to ignore death and usher in the asthetic of perpetual youth.
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In the F.W. Murnau version of Faust, the makeup used to make Gösta Ekman into an old Faust was very convincing
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As far as looking older, I think a big part of it had to do with smoking. Everyone smoked back then, and if you didn’t, everyone around you was. That ages you right up.
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The best one I've read is Kate Nelligan (who played Lucy in the '79 Dracula), she played Nick Nolte's mother in The Prince of Tides (1991), but in real life she's actually nine years younger than he is. True, but that's a bit like Crispin Glover who played Michael J. Fox's father in Back to the Future even though Glover is younger than Fox. They played also the younger counterparts of their roles in Flashbacks, so they used younger actresses and actors because it's easier to age people on film then it is to make them look younger.
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