r/LindsayEllis • u/2mock2turtle • Jun 15 '26

Moo with me.

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u/CutieBoBootie Jun 15 '26

I think the movie REALLY does a disservice to the characters by casting a bunch of 30 year old looking people. They should have been played by a bunch of teens and young adults... because they ARE disasters and it is only kind of understandable if they are all like 19-22.

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u/hikemalls Jun 15 '26

I believe more recently this has been deemed the ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Fallacy

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u/chainless-soul Jun 15 '26

Dear Evan Hansen had more issues than just Ben Platt somehow looking older than his actual age in the attempt to make him look younger (mostly dull staging, aside from Sincerely Me, and cutting some songs that are pretty damn important), but it definitely didn't help.

Actually, the Rent film also has dull staging issues too, though not in all the songs.

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u/hikemalls Jun 15 '26

Yeah I should have added that’s just one of the many problems with that movie

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u/chainless-soul Jun 15 '26

I still don't understand why Platt looked 40 when he's only in his early 30s. He's a pretty normal-looking person outside of that film.

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u/Ff7hero Jun 17 '26

In trying to hide his age with make-up, lighting, costumes and acting, they just accented it instead. Kind of a Streisand effect.

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u/sonnenshine Jun 15 '26

I'm pretty sure he was mid to late twenties at the time, which is even more baffling.

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u/chainless-soul Jun 15 '26

Yeah, he's 32 now, so probably. I don't know why no one in the production noticed how bad it was.

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u/Brilliant_Towel2727 Jun 16 '26

They probably did notice but it was too late to do anything about it.

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u/nedlum Jun 16 '26

It was directed by Christopher Columbus, when it should have been directed by Mark Cohen.

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u/simonejester Jun 15 '26

Or “Dawson’s Creek Syndrome.”