Saddest part was watching Ethan Hawke age
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Boyhood
Binkconn — 9 years ago(April 05, 2016 06:48 PM)
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.
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Prelude-in-C-maj — 9 years ago(April 07, 2016 05:22 AM)
Hmm 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!
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Prelude-in-C-maj — 9 years ago(April 12, 2016 06:32 AM)
Absolutely; 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. -
BoogerBarbieDoll12 — 9 years ago(July 29, 2016 06:26 PM)
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.
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Prelude-in-C-maj — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 05:04 PM)
Just another disturbing reminder that people do get old and we can't do anything about it.
Except maybe not grow a horrible mustache that turns you into Tom Skerrit!
Seriously though, I think one thing that can age people in a bad way is that a lot of people do seem to make very weird choices in presentation as they get older, which are unnecessarily unflattering. -