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Something I noticed.......

posted 18 years ago by OhmsLaw
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Dean Stockwell was an extremely cute little boy actor who somehow grew up to look a LOT different. What happened to the pouty lips he had,how do you lose something like that? Anyhow,there is a scene where he is looking at war posters at school and is staring at one of an adult male. Another kids says to him "He looks like you"-and it did,but only as the ADULT Stockwell. How did the makers of the movie know how he would look as an adult? I found that strange,unless it was an older brother who posed for the poster. It would be interesting to find out.

[–] X-Evolutionist 18 years ago

He had a brother named Guy who was an actor, but he's not in this movie. I totally did not catch that the poster looked like him as an adult.

I this on Turner Movie Classics today. Do you have that, too, by any chance?

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[–] advice31765 15 years ago

The poster he is looking at is not an adult but a slightly older child. That boy and all of the other orphaned children from the posters "come to life" in the ruins later. And, despite what Peter's classmate says, they looked nothing alike. You are correct that the boy on the poster looked more like Stockwell when he was an adult.

[–] alcatab 14 years ago

People's facial features, as well as their body types, change as they get older. You specifically mentioned lips. They tend to thin out as one ages.

Personally, I don't think he looks different as an adult, it's just that he matured.

I also don't feel the boy in the poster looked anything like him. That was just said to bring out the fact that he was a war orphan.