How did the guy at the diner and the boys know she was a girl??
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xxstaindrosesxx-1 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 08:54 PM)
Sometimes boys look feminine until they hit puberty, and with the ages, I think it would be hard to determine if Eleven was a boy or girl. Even the guy who owned that diner in the beginning thought she was a boy at first. I personally don't think they would have known, so that part did seem a little odd to me.
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warrior-poet — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 11:21 PM)
They actually didn't at first. Only when getting a close look did they realize. Benny, the restaurant guy, actually calls her "boy" but then turns her around and realizes she's a girl. Benny then says "she speaks" later on when they're sitting eating at the table.
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jsagotsky-1 — 9 years ago(October 23, 2016 10:47 PM)
Boys and girls have differently shaped faces. Millie Bobbie Brown has delicate features.
Did anybody have trouble telling that Charlize Theron was a woman in Mad Max? besides short hair, they taped her breasts, but no mistaking she was a woman. Unless u think the grease on her forehead is what made her look feminene. -
Rex16 — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 02:03 AM)
Boys and girls have differently shaped faces. Millie Bobbie Brown has delicate features.
Did anybody have trouble telling that Charlize Theron was a woman in Mad Max? besides short hair, they taped her breasts, but no mistaking she was a woman. Unless u think the grease on her forehead is what made her look feminene.
But there are significant differences between an adult woman who has a shaved head and a pre-teen child with short hair. I have posted my thoughts below on how Benny understood that Eleven is a girl (I put it down to body language) but I couldn't have picked it up from her facial features alone. -
Rex16 — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 01:53 AM)
How did the guy at the diner and the boys know she was a girl??
That was my first question, too. A lot of the posters here are claiming that it's obvious but I couldn't have picked that up myself just from Eleven's facial features.
I suppose girls have different body language than boys. May be the way Benny figured it out was that if it had been a delinquent boy, he would have reacted differently to being forcefully restrained by Benny. May be he would have struggled more or tried to bite.
Eleven just looked scared and didn't put up a fight, which is a more "feminine" response. That probably led Benny to realise the truth.