Why does Kurt Russell play the father?
Are we supposed to believe that father and son are identical twins?
shareIt is very common for sons to look like their fathers. People remind how I look like mine.
You must take after your mom.
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Why not? What's the problem with that? Who did you want to play the father-Robert Goulet?
shareNo. Brando. He did it for Superman. WHy not here?
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Well they did make Dennis look a little bit different from Stephen, not a great deal but a little. Dennis had his hair combed down while Stephen had more of a spiky look and Dennis had a mustache.
shareNo. Brando. He did it for Superman. WHy not here?
Brando was pretty large by that time (1991). . .
Brando probably would've asked for $10 million for the scene.
shareWhy not? What's the problem with that? Who did you want to play the father-Robert Goulet?
The problem with it is that it's unrealistic, and it's a holdover from eons long past when they did that.
The reason a son can never look identical to a father is because they only share 50% of their DNA. You can't make two people look the same if they only have 50% of their genes in common. Unless it's a clone, which in the 1960s when Stephen was born would not have been possible. share
Lol I know a few people I grew up with who now that they are in their 30s are spitting images of their mother or father at their age. My cousin is my age and he looks exactly like my uncle in pictures from 20 years ago.
shareI know quite a few people who are spitting images of their parents. My daughter looks like a clone of my wife. I also have a nephew who looks like a clone of my brother in law.
BTW: DNA doesn't always split evenly, ergo one parent can dominate. For example, there's the Dahm sisters, identical triplets, who have completely different DNA distributions.
https://www.thedoctorstv.com/articles/3863-the-triplets-put-ancestry-kits-to-the-test
Yes,that would've been awesome, however they may have used an actor twice so it would be one less paycheck.
shareBecause Ron hated him and wanted to see him die twice.
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Yeah. I was watching it for the first time today. I was confused when I saw Kurt Russell, because I thought he already died in opening scene. Weird.
shareIt bothered me too. If they were going to do that, at least give the father Kurt a more distinctive appearance (beard? mustache? darker hair?)
Father and son looked the exact same, and because the scenes they first appear in are so close together, I bet everyone in the audience was confused too back back then.
He had a moustache.
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