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    Her character gave the impression of being in her thirties with a doctorate and tons of experience, regardless how old the actress was. In the books she was apparently in her “late twenties” so that reasonably tracks.

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    Wasnt she introduced as Dr. Ellie Satler? She completed her doctorate in paleobiology before 24 and she outran a velociraptor!

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      If you graduate college at 21, you could possibly finish your PhD by 24…would definitely be a bit of a rush but maybe in the Jurassic Park universe there’s so much demand for those sorts of experts that they fast-tracked it.

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        Dr. Ellie Satler is in her late twenties, according to the book. Laura Dern, the actress, was simply playing older than she actually was. Also, in the context of these films, Jurassic Park’s operations were still a tightly held secret at the time Dr. Satler would have been obtaining her credentials.

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      she outran a velociraptor!

      They were deinonychus theropods, velociraptor theropods are the size of small turkeys

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      In the movie she’s supposed to be closer to 30. Her character went through some rewrites and was initially supposed to be a grad student like in the book which is probably why they cast Laura Dern, but later aged up her character.

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              Missing stair is a very interesting and aptly-named phenomenon. TIL not only about that, but about Portman needing a chaperone around that guy! Thank you x2!

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              You mean the relationship that started while filming the Fifth Element, which also featured his then girlfriend as the opera singer, whom he started a relationship with while she was like 16?

              Dude’s a super fuckin pedo creep.

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          Willis/Pacino/De Nero all have that same thing in a bunch of movies.

          Actress is like 20, they’re in their late 40s/50s

          Just rewatched heat. Really good movie, but De Nero was 50+ with the actress he was supposed to be in love with…she was 20 something. It’s just fucking weird, dude was old enough to be her father, and not the “I had a kid when I was 16” either.

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          Obviously the age difference is weird but was Korbin creepy? I remember him being super chill and circumstances kind of forced them together without either him or Lelu really leaning into it.

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            It’s less the actions of the character himself and more the general dynamic between the two that’s rather odd.

            Primarily the dynamic of the being both a mentor/father figure AND a lover to a woman who has quite literally just been born.

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    because the character she played has a doctorate.

    This just in, Hollywood make-up can make you look like whatever age the script wants.

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      She also acted very mature for her age.

      “girl” is still misleading. At 23 she was still a woman and adult,just a younger woman than one might have assumed

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      She also served as a partner to Dr Grant with romantic undertones and Sam Neil was 45 so that dragged her perceived age up as well. I just looked it up and the script has her character as late twenties, 27-29

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    Some people just have a mature looking face even when they are young. And they will look the same age for pretty much their whole life

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    As a young man of 8 years old when the film came out, her legs in those shorts awoke something in me

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      Reading the book, you’d think Crichton felt the same way. He mentions it a suspicious amount.

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    costume, hair and makeup. the same way we make assumptions about age IRL. you know how you look at old photos and see people in highschool looking like your parents? because your parents were probably in highschool around that time and they dressed and styled a certain way and you associated that with your parents’ age.

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    As I age I’m blown away when I look back at people I used to watch back in the day and see their age.

    Random but this wrestler, the big boss man was my favorite when I was a kid, he was wrestling Hogan back in the 80s and went all the way into 2001 or so before retiring. He died a few years later at the age of 41. Meaning when he was wrestling Hogan in the 80s he was like in his early 20s

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      And then you’ve got guys like this. I remember seeing some ancient old dudes when I was a kid. My toddler is obsessed with 60s music these days and it blows my mind when I see this video now. I see babies.

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        Is it just me or are those guitars oversized? Also the composition of everything just looks… wrong. If you told me this was a photoshop montage, I’d believe you

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    Wait, does this mean she actually was a teenager in Blue Velvet? I always kind if assumed she was a 20-something playing a teenager in that movie.