He starts the film around the time of his Training Day hot-shot era, then ends it all creased, heavier and slightly scared-looking. Who cares about the life of a boring twit kid, Ethan carried the film and his aging was the most fascinating/sad.
shareHmm I dunno -- Ethan kinda doesn't age that much though does he? Of all the cast, he's the one who seems the most unchanged, so that they had to put mustaches on him just to make him seem more dad-like later on. He still looked too young for the part even by the end!
Generation X is not exactly aging the same way the generations before did. People in their 40's now are what 20-somethings looked like in the 1970's and before.
shareAbsolutely; there are at least a couple of generations enjoying that more youthful look longer than it seemed like previous generations looked. Better nutrition once we got past the World Wars, better information about health.
Ethan always had boyish, pixie-ish features, on top of that. He will probably still look boyish when he's 60.
The haircut and wispy moustache of later period was not a particularly good look!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
I just watched it for the first time and was a little freaked out that Ethan looked exactly like Tom Skerritt by the end of the movie. Not that Tom isn't a good looking man, but I've always seen him as the older man in movies. It was unsettling to see Ethan turn into Tom Skerritt. Just another disturbing reminder that people do get old and we can't do anything about it.
Just another disturbing reminder that people do get old and we can't do anything about it.
DOesn't have to be disturbing. You can think so but that won't be helpful for anything.
shareSaddest part was when they were leaving their controlling step-fathers house and the look on their step-siblings faces when they realised they weren't going to see each other again that was sad.
They aged him up, dude was only in his early 40's at the time of filming those scenes.
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