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Sharon was supposedly 30, she looked at least 40+


I always notice how nowadays 40 years old look like 30 or even younger when you compare them with people from the last century: in the 80s at 40 you were a woman, middle aged, almost considered old.

Well, Sharon Stone is supposedly 30 in Basic Instinct (she was 33 while shooting), yet she dresses like a mature woman, does her hair like a middle aged woman, and behaves like the best of her years are past her. I bet part of her femme fatale allure is that she's "that old" and yet is not married nor with kids. The only thing she does that doesn't scream "over the hill" is banging (in a very ordinary kind of way too, although the movie tries to sell it as some out of this world sex).

Do you think it's the movie that strangely portrays a 30 year old female as a "woman" (instead of a girl), or is it me/us in 2019, that we strangely still behave like teenagers after our 30s and well into our adulthood?

Now excuse me but I have to go play with my ps4/dick:-)

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She's over 60 now and could still pass for under 40.

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I don't get your point. A 30 year woman is a "woman", not a girl. The best years are past most people at 30+, even in 2020. Don't be fooled by filters on FB, lol.

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What? Are you kidding me?
Most women around 30 or above in 2020 look, behave and think like girls.
Her best years are right then and there, in her 20s she was still growing up.

Nowadays girls turn into women in their 30s, at 40 they are mostly no longer behaving like girls. But before than, even when they dress like adults, it's a costume rehearsal rather than reality.

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40? LOL

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Yes 40, that's how old she looks in the movie nowadays. In 2020 no ordinary 30 yo looks as aged as that.

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She looked younger than 34 and she stayed thay way for over another decade.

Obesity is a big problem today which makes age ambiguous.

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Which 30 yo do you know that looks and behaves like she does in this movie?
The ones I know are barely out of their teens and are still trying to be cool.
Certainly they don't dress nor think like they are middle aged, like this character.

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I always tought she looks younger than 33 in this movie even when not much younger but in his late 20's never tought she look in her 40's

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I have never seen any girl 29 or younger talk, dress, look or behave like her. I have seen plenty of 40+
She qualifies as a mature woman for today standards, not as a girl.

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she looked about 33-35 which is probably around what she was at the time

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That's what I thought too when I rewatched the movie the other day. She looks 35 at the very most.

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I think they wanted a character who's above most. Like in intelligence, social status, self confidence, etc. By dropping her age it emphasized those traits even more, maybe.

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Yes it seems like they wanted her character to appear more mature than her biological age, to make her more dangerous than a mere "girl".

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I thought she looked about 25-27.

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Show me a 25 yo that looks and dresses and behaves like her nowadays.

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And? Chicks are dumb as sh-t these days.

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No arguing over that, but that's exactly my point in the OP:
how nowadays girls and guys look like kids in their 20s and 30s and even 40s, while in '92 Sharon was 30 and dressing and behaving like a grown up woman, over 40 for today's standards.

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