25 year old plays 15 year old?
I just check the file and surprised. However, if he looks like 15 years old, that's OK!
shareI didn't buy it. My brother is 15 and looks like Tadpole's son. They should have found somebody a little more "fresh" looking, eh?
shareI'm sure that the casting for Tadpole is as it is for two reasons.
First, to keep Neuwirth and Weaver from looking to old by comparison, and second, to keep the audience from getting creeped out.
We're talking statutory rape here, folks, even though such matters would garner greater attention if the sexes were reversed.
The audience needs to believe that is sufficiently mature to cope with a relationship with a 15-year-old.
Imagine trying to cast an actual 15-year-old to the part. I doubt you'd find a sufficiently mature actor, especially given the film's apparent budget.
If viewers were distracted by Neuwirth's character "robbing the cradle" then sympathy for Tadpole might evaporate and then the movie would fall apart.
There are many of us that might say that we wish we had such an opportunity at fifteen.
But how many of us were like Tadpole at fifteen? Most of us would have been ill-equipped to avail ourselves of such an opportunity. (For a variety of reasons, mostly psychologically, you perverts.)
If you're like Tadpole, 15 against 40 doesn't matter much, but try and find a younger-looking (or actually a younger)actor on a shoestring budget?
Impossible.
Speaking of casting characters that are kids, I think it's an unwritten rule that you have to cast older actors. Check out American Pie. Probably none of the cast were in high school at the time.
Hollywood doesn't like to cast too young. Like if they cast a 18 year old for the part, some people might think he is underage and create a big scandal, like they did with the new (well now old) version of Lolita. They try to make sure to put someone in there where the viewers can say, "ok, he is definately over 18."
I thought he was in college when I first started watching.
I thought it was college, too.
How did he order drinks at the bar?
Last night I watched the movie, Class, with Andrew McCarthy, and also had the same confusion. Same setup, too, young guy/older woman, but I think he was a senior in high school and at least 17.
It's kinda weird to me how they just kinda brush the issue aside and don't involve police, if not by the family doing it, by one of the friends telling someone else who tells, etc..
I'm sure that the casting for Tadpole is as it is for two reasons.
First, to keep Neuwirth and Weaver from looking to old by comparison, and second, to keep the audience from getting creeped out.
We're talking statutory rape here, folks, even though such matters would garner greater attention if the sexes were reversed.
The audience needs to believe that is sufficiently mature to cope with a relationship with a 15-year-old.
Imagine trying to cast an actual 15-year-old to the part. I doubt you'd find a sufficiently mature actor, especially given the film's apparent budget.
If viewers were distracted by Neuwirth's character "robbing the cradle" then sympathy for Tadpole might evaporate and then the movie would fall apart.
There are many of us that might say that we wish we had such an opportunity at fifteen.
But how many of us were like Tadpole at fifteen? Most of us would have been ill-equipped to avail ourselves of such an opportunity. (For a variety of reasons, mostly psychologically, you perverts.)
If you're like Tadpole, 15 against 40 doesn't matter much, but try and find a younger-looking (or actually a younger)actor on a shoestring budget?
Impossible.
Speaking of casting characters that are kids, I think it's an unwritten rule that you have to cast older actors. Check out American Pie. Probably none of the cast were in high school at the time.
Such a good response that it's delivered twice!
I see your point and agree. Thanks!
LOL!
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ColorBlind - cos then you never would have had that extra element there that makes the whole thing seem that bit more inappropriate. It shouldn't get in the way of the film, no, but it's an issue the film may have been thin without.
shareBecause thats what makes the film so interesting. When you reach the age 16 and 17 the sterotype comes in and on screen its expected for characters that age to go around sleeping with people and not caring. While a 15 year old who is being portrayed as someone who seems like they just gone through puberty and are just beginning to live life.
shareYou obviously haven't seen the 15 year olds I've seen. I was lied to once by a guy claiming to be 21, and he looked it, too. Facial hair, body hair, muscular...he turned out to be just 15.
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Hehe :)
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