MovieChat Forums > Tuck Everlasting (2002) Discussion > the age thing?!

the age thing?!

posted 17 years ago by frozenover_flame
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ok, yeah this was a good film, well what i saw of it was ok, but it seems that everyone seems to overlook the fact that jesse was 114 and winnie is only 15!

i mean yeah fair enough, if they want to fall in love then yeah age doesnt really matter, but it seems to me that if jesse's body had aged and it was 114 (yeah i know he probably wouldnt be alive, but still) then this film would get some contravesy with a 114 year old falling for a 15 year old.

it really bugs me that no one else seems to notice this! and yeah i probably missing the point of the film with the "living forever" and "soul mates" but please tell me that someone else has picked up on this! i mean it is a bit of an age gap

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[–] Coophoopz13 17 years ago

he was 104. just sayingggg.
but seriously if you think about it, he was only as mature as someone that really was 17

[–] Rainbowboys22 17 years ago

When she died he was 189 years old and still looking like a 17 yr old I wonder what would have happened had he came back days before she died a 100 yr old woman looking at a 17 yr old kid saying i havent seen you since i was 15 lol her family would think she lost it .....

[–] tanit3333 17 years ago

Time passed very quickly for him... not like for us. I think he stayed like a teen pretty much forever b/c he lived w/ his family in a controlled enviornment. Sort of like a ghost, if you think about it. Peter Pan was probably pretty old when he met Wendy, but no one ever freaks out about that.

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[–] juniormint-2 17 years ago

in the book, winnie was 10 and jesse was 17.

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[–] LostRomanovPrincess 16 years ago

my reading class read the book.

[–] blinger12 16 years ago

It seemed pretty obvious to me that when you drink the water you stay the same as you are forever...

[–] LostRomanovPrincess 16 years ago

that would really stink to live forever.

[–] The_Only_Real_Thalia 16 years ago

Don't think of it as one hundred whatever. He's forever seventeen. He doesn't mature past seventeen....wow right before you got your license that would suck.

[–] top-cat2005 16 years ago

One of the minor problems with the book and the movie was the fact that Jessie never seemed to grow emotionally. The rest of his family all came to some degree or another to regret their immortality. The father Angus even tells Winnie that he is tired of staying the same and would like to live again like a normal human, reminding her of the normal cycle of life. The brother Miles feels great sorrow from the loss of his wife and children The three adults all at one point or another express the wish that they had never drunk from the spring. Only Jessie still seems to think that's it's all a game. I guess because he never really had the chance to “live his life” before becoming immortal.

[–] LostRomanovPrincess 16 years ago

miles should move on.

[–] joeybagadonuts 16 years ago

maybe because after 100 years he was still a teenager emotionally and still felt the teenage lust

[–] AngelofMusic0707 16 years ago

I always saw that as Jesse's immaturity, the kind of immaturity that comes with being a seventeen year old boy. He was frozen at the age he was when he drank from the spring, and he has been sheltered for the most part. He doesnt have the mentality of a 104 year old, so I'm not freaked out at all.

[–] el_gato_con_botas_8 16 years ago

In the book Winnie is suppose to be 10 while Jesse was suppose to be "17".

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[–] In-a-Haze 16 years ago

I think that in a few years they should remake this movie, with better actors in the lead roles and keeping the whimsy of the book. Although I really liked this movie for what it is, I felt the script was very weak, and if re-done it could make for a truly heartbreaking movie.

[–] CaroElisa 11 years ago

I think Alexis Bledel and JJ are SO lovely in this film, and also both very good actors. I wouldn't change it.

[–] maryswake 16 years ago

I see what you're saying but sometimes... this type of "magical" love bypasses any age logic.

And to be funny... he's a guy. Maybe he just stayed mentally 17. lol I've seen this happen. Ask my 28 year old fiance. He's 17 most of the time.

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[–] petrsalluneed 15 years ago

maybe jesse is retarded? no, but seriously, it's not like he could go to school or really interact with his peers for too long. like some of the other posters said, he was kind of sheltered. i think it fits his character that he would try to hold on to being 17 for as long as possible, even 189 years. having to stay away from mainstream society can have that affect. we never even got a chance to see how old he was maturity-wise, because once the puppy love kicked in, he started acted like a teenager who thinks he's in love.

[–] tatelangdon 15 years ago

Winnie was ten in the book and they never fell in love, and for most part she was just an immature little girl.

But, the same thing goes on in Twilight.

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[–] pinkxcouturee 15 years ago

jesse's physically seventeen, and he's still a bit naive like a seventeen-year-old despite his 104 years.

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[–] danaenicole 13 years ago

well, you know, when he's 504 and she's 415, it won't matter so much.