tengers
tengers
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tengers is south africa’s first animated feature film and is a dark social satire set in a contemporary south african context .
tengers by michael j. rix, jo day, phillip mathebula, anton schmidt | 684457884026 | dvd | barnes & noble®
the tengers were divided into white and black. white tengers came to be known as all - knowing, all - compassionate inhabitants of the western part of the upper world, akin to deities, while the fierce, ethnocentric black tengers, often invoked for power or vengeance, were seen as being from the eastern part of the upper world. thus came into being the pan - mongolian cosmology of the ninety - nine skies (realms) of the upper world, with fifty - five white tengers in the west and forty - four black tengers in the east. there is some talk in mongolia that so many new shamans are now being recruited by the spirits because of a war between these two spiritual regions; but opinions differ widely, and conjecture over coffee and vodka can run wild .
billed as a small adult comedy with a big kid�s heart, tengers is the pet project of gauteng - based writer / director / animator and editor, michael j rix. michael wrote and storyboarded tengers in 1999, and since then has put every spare moment into bringing the story to life through his own unique style of clay - mation .
andrew worsdale speaks to michael rix, the maker of tengers, south africa’s first feature length animated film, which takes a darkly humorous look at the realities of life in jozi .
tengers is a 2007 south african animated film written, directed and produced by michael j. rix. it is the first fulllength animation produced in south africa and uses the claymation technique .
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tengers is a 2007 south african animated film written, directed and produced by michael j. rix. it is the first full - length animation produced in south africa and uses the claymation technique .
south africa' s first animated film' tengers', that satirises life in contemporary johannebsurg, will have its local premiere as part of the africa on screen film festival at the end of may .
one of the best and most relevant south african movies in a very long time... tengers is a local movie that deserves our support because it is a pretty darned good one .
tengers is a movie starring adam callander, adran callander, and jo day. whilst working on
the great south african novel ,
an unemployed writer gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of johannesburg .
in mongolian, one who travels the realms of the tengers is called a tengeri—“sky - dweller; sky - walker. ” i like to think that luke skywalker, the young warrior - shaman jedi knight of the fictional star wars films, may have inherited his name from this tradition. interestingly, the bbc reports that in censuses taken in 2001 regarding spiritual beliefs, hundreds of thousands of people selected “jediism” as their faith of choice—such is the power of shamanism even in our modern myths and legends .
although his movie deals with serious issues, it’s very patriotic about those who live in gauteng with their resolute and sort of schizoid sense of humour about life in the sprawling city. “i think the underlying message of the film was always: we as tengers (or south african even) have become desensitised to the issues. but i also wanted the film to be hopeful, and reactive. if it stirs up feelings within one audience member who walks out thinking ‘i' ve got to do my bit to help this situation’, then i' ve done my job. ”
the legend of the sky kingdom, despite laying almost certain claim to being africa' s first stop - motion film, has never attracted much attention. at the time of this review it has only 25 votes on imdb. i had to order the dvd from the makers when i first watched it in 2009, but nowadays you can stream it for $ 2 on amazon (in the us), so if you' re at all interested in the medium you should check it out. similarly south africa' s little - seen claymation dramedy tengers, aimed at a considerably more adult audience, is currently also available .
he says he has many animation influences and is even a big fan of the old disney classics, “but unfortunately the success of these in the western world narrowed the scope of animation to be viewed as ‘kids entertainment’. which in itself is ironic, because judging by disney' s first feature snow white and the seven dwarfs, i don' t think that was his intention. that movie has some seriously dark elements. sure, it was designed as pure entertainment, but i think it was originally intended for a more mature audience. the style of tengers was always supposed to be ‘a poor man' s wallace and gromit ’, very rough - around - the - edges, just like jo' burg! ”
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whilst working on
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an unemployed writer gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of johannesburg .
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a jobless writer discovers that life in johannesburg can be brutally unforgiving as he struggles to finish
the great south african novel
in this claymation comedy .
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the film has already played on the international festival circuit to wide critical acclaim, and won the best animated feature award at the diy film festival in los angeles last year .
the inspiration for the production was mick jackson�s la story, written by steve martin. within the confines of a very funny comedy, martin is able to convey the day - to - day occurrences, rituals, hopes and fears associated with living in the sprawling metropolis of los angeles, california. commenting on his inspiration, rix says one specific scene leaps to mind when he remembers the film :
since leaving film school in 1996, michael has been involved in numerous productions for south african television. insert writer, director, animator and editor on shows such as options, arts unlimited, rise up and read, red bull flugtag, sanlam money game, golf digest tv and ultra simple golf, as well as numerous music videos, commercials and corporate training films. michael also wrote, directed and edited man in the street, a feature film screened at the cannes film festival in 2003 .
is south africa’s first animated feature film and is a dark social satire set in a contemporary south african context .
whilst working on “the great south african novel, ” rob, an unemployed writer, gets caught up in the harsh realities of life in the city of johannesburg .
rob eventually falls into a bit of luck. soon after, however, it seems that someone is trying to make his life shorter! the lottery service trying to save on their payouts, or someone he knows trying to get their hands on the winning ticket ?
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entertaining but not frivolous. political but not preachy. sophisticated but not alienating .
the time has come for a satirical take on what it means to be south african, and what it' s like to live in a society of constant flux, forever juggling the morals and ideals you were handed growing up, with the reality of day - to - day life as a (gau) tenger .
one of those local films you should see, but not out of some sense of patriotic duty but because you' ll laugh out loud a lot .
darkly comic, then tragic and finally moving... a unique film .
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ulgen real name ulgen aliases ulgan relatives tengri (father), gaea (mother), erlik, kuara ...
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kuara real name kuara relatives tengri (father), gaea (mother), erlik, koyash, ulgen (brothers ...
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this entry is trivia, which is cool and all, but not a trope. on a work, it goes on the trivia tab .
from left to right: nicholas brendon as xander, sarah michelle gellar as buffy, charisma carpenter as cordelia, and alyson hannigan as willow. not numbered, and playing his actual age: 42 - year - old anthony stewart head as giles, who is definitely not a teenager .
, except without 25 - year - old teenagers and 35 - year - old parents .
), for one good reason: they' re often played by actors who are at least a few years older. this dates back to the earliest days of hollywood, if not further, making it
this happens when dealing with teenage characters in the range of 14 - 18 years old, especially in dramatic shows. if younger, casting usually tries for children actors, and if older it is simply far less noticeable. if a show or movie carries a greater focus on the adults rather than the kids then they will usually avert this. this ought to be horribly distracting, but by and large, television audiences have learned to manage. it is so ingrained into our mindset that almost all aversions end up being notable .
it can sometimes result in a paradoxical effect: teens that look more like actual teens (either with real teenage actors or in animation) are described as looking
too young
( see reality is unrealistic). conversely, actors in their early - to - mid - twenties, especially those who make their name in these kinds of shows, often have difficulty being taken seriously playing characters their own age. very specific actors can pull it off, usually attributing it to the character being older than they look. in other cases, some stories work with this because a key plot point may be the character does not actually look their age and are trying to pass off as older than they really are. but with no such luck hollywood will get by with appropriate clothing, hairstyles, makeup and mannerisms .
named for dawson' s creek, which was notorious for it — james van der beek (20), katie holmes (18), and joshua jackson (19) playing 15 - year - olds (at the time of the pilot' s filming). 17 - year - old michelle williams was the only one still high school aged. in season two, the new main character jack was 16, and actor kerr smith was 26. while maybe not the worst case example (jack aside), it is a joke that has filtered into the cultural mindset regarding the show .
by and large this trope requires some research, you can' t know for certain that an actor / actress is a certain age unless you scour around wikipedia or im db. also consider that production time may vary greatly from release of the movie or airing of the episode. the actors are of course younger during filming. timeline issues sometimes make this more apparent, as 5 seasons of a tv show may only cover one year within the context of the story, making an actor who was an aversion become a straight example over time. consider also that the exact age of the character may also be in question (a generic
high schooler
can be anywhere from 14 to 19). in the case of voice acting that field has nothing to do with appearance and everything to do with vocal performance, as such only notable aversions are mentioned (consider what the point would be to list examples of race lift in voice acting). this is also part of why we have crossdressing voices .
ultimately realize that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this trope; all forms of entertainment are about the illusion. what matters is if you believe in the character. at the same time this is not about age discrepancies, just being three or four years older doesn' t necessarily mean the production is
trying to pull a fast one
on the audience. if anything finding a 19 year old to play a 17 year old is well ahead of the curve .
compare age lift, age inappropriate dress, and three month old newborn. contrast hollywood old, playing gertrude, underage casting, and children voicing children. see also artistic age for an intentional drawn equivalent. cross - dressing voices is more - or - less the animated version of this trope, as partially explained above. also used to avert a stage mom situation .
while this is usually not an issue with animation, it becomes somewhat noticeable when idol series, like marginal number 4 and uta no princesama, have the voice actors perform concerts in - character. though, some of them definitely look the part, like unicorn jr.' s shouta aoi and toshiyuki someya (both 30 at the time of the franchise' s first big concert; their characters are 15 and 16). somewhat subverted with the third member of the trio, alto, who' s supposed to be 16, but looks so much like his voice actor that he seems older, even in the animation .
the esper sisters tatsumaki and fubuki from one punch man are both 28 years old and 23 years old respectively, but their japanese voice actresses are not. aoi yuuki, tatsumaki' s voice actress, is a year younger than saori hayami, fubuki' s voice actress .
something similar happens in the spaniard dub with male actor ricardo escobar (15 - year - old edward) and female actress blanca rada (10 - 12 year - old edward). rada voices ed in most flashbacks, but in some short ones (two - three lines tops), escobar keeps voicing little ed. the results are kinda jarring, since even though escobar' s voice is believable for a teenager (although a kinda deep voiced one at that), it definitely isn' t for a little boy .
the english dub actor chris patton has played the younger versions of two of his characters as well: joshua christopher in chrono crusade (who was played by a woman in the japanese version), hajime aoyama in ghost stories (who was also played by a woman in the japanese version) and fakir in princess tutu. in the audio commentary for chrono crusade, it' s revealed that they used a mixture of chris speaking higher and some editing to make it work .
similarly, in the dub of naruto, yuri lowenthal voices sasuke even when he was a kid and later he voiced simon of tengen toppa gurren lagann both before and after the time skip, though not in the distant finale (which happen the same in the original language as well). the same goes for rossiu, though only in the dub (while in the japanese version he retains a female voice actor even when we briefly see him in his fourties )
every single main male character over the age of 10 is voiced by a male actor, and most of them are believable. javier balas, naruto' s voice actor, explained in an interview that it was done like that because when the series arrived to spain, in japan the manga had already reached the
. hence, they casted so every character could keep their voice actors after that point .
which happened for all characters... except sasuke. before the time skip he was voiced by adolfo moreno, a 30 - something voice actor famous for voicing ash ketchum from pokémon, sora from kingdom hearts ii and scott pilgrim, among many others. however, after the time skip he was replaced by eduardo bosch, whose voice sounds way more mature... so much that some people believe they overdid it .
it' s probably worth noting that greg ayres (the actor of negi from negima mentioned above) has been cast three times in dubs for young characters voiced by akira ishida in the original: kaworu nagisa of neon genesis evangelion, chrono of chrono crusade and satoshi hiwatari of dn angel. in fact, greg himself tends to be a walking example—he was originally hired as a voice actor in the first place because his natural voice sounds so young
sixteen - year - old tsukiyono omi of weiss kreuz is played by yuuki hiro, actually the oldest of the four lead voice actors of the series; his youthful voice means that he is often cast as cute, young boys .
was played by his male actor, ryo horikawa in his young appearances. most dubs use a female actor for this role, but the funimation english dub, like the japanese version, used his adult actor ,
christopher sabat also voiced the child form of piccolo in dragon ball, while in most other versions including the original japanese version cast a woman for this part .
( with a few exceptions which were old enough to be played by a male in both versions) .
this trend was followed by most of the other dubs worldwide; in fact, the japanese version seems to be the only one in which shinji was voiced by a woman, which some fans perceive as lost in translation, as his effeminacy was a major point in his character development .
other male teen characters were also voiced by men in the original japanese: touji suzuhara, voiced by tomokazu seki; kensuke aida, voiced by tetsuya iwanaga; and, as mentioned above, kaworu nagisa, voiced by akira ishida .
the 2008 yatterman series marks the only time in the franchise' s entire history (the live - action movie aside, for obvious reasons) that gan / yatterman - 1 had a male actor (hiroyuki yoshino in this case); otherwise, he had a female actress .
the adventure of sinbad ova has 14 - year - old sinbad and drakon being voiced by the same actors who play their 30 - year - old selves in magi, which just sounds unnatural combined with the more cartoonish art style .
nate, a fifth grader from yokai watch is voiced by 40 year old johnny yong bosch .
princess principal: in - universe - dorothy is 20 years old, and undercover as a high schooler. ange lampshades it by saying her class must be very kind .
flip flappers: toto in the original japanese version was played by a woman to give him the pre - adolecence voice while the dub gave him a matured male voice .
although there' s generally no actual casting involved, many fanfics involve describing teenaged characters (both existing and new) in terms that don' t fit with their ages. sometimes there actually is casting, when the author creates banners or pictures for the cast, and generally uses
teen
models or actresses in their early - mid 20s .
in the author' s notes of my immortal, tara gilesbie suggested that gerard way (!) should play draco in the next harry potter film. gerard was almost 30 at the time .
butter up of the actingverse in my little pony: friendship is magic fanfiction plays fluttershy, and is a full adult, unlike the child stars who play the other characters .
one that didn' t happen: j. d. salinger once wrote that the only adaptation of the catcher in the rye he would permit would be with himself, then well into his 30s, playing the 16 - year - old lead .
john green, perhaps as a shout out to the above, tweeted that he would be playing augustus in the fault in our stars as an april fools prank .
alice cooper, born in 1948, has been singing
i' m eighteen
for over 30 years .
bryan adams had a hit with
18 till i die
in 1997, at the age of 37 .
pat benatar, born in 1953, built an entire discography around singing about how
we are young
back in the 1980s. the video for
love is a battlefield
( which has the
we are young
line in question), where she plays a teen runaway. she was 30 at the time she made the video .
marilyn manson, born in 1969, has been singing, in a first person narrative, of being a disgruntled youth, since 1994 when he was 25 .
korn have made a career out of teenage angst and high school ostracizing; so far they' ve been at it since 1993, being at the time 22 years old plus .
madonna' s early musical career centered around insinuating that she' s a troubled youth, being a material
girl
who was
like a virgin
and juggling youthful crushes and youthful rebellion and wants to know
where' s the party
, contrasted with tougher issues such as whether or not her
daddy
would be angry that she' s pregnant, and running away from home because
daddy
is abusive. she was 25 years old when she released her self - titled debut. 3 years after that, she still considered herself young enough to kiss a 13 - year - old in the music video for
open your heart
, but her critics disagreed .
belinda carlisle had a youthful - sounding voice and used it to make references about being a
kid
in
school
finding love for the first time with her band the go - gos. in the late 1980s, she became a solo artist at the (relatively) mature age of 29, replete with air - brushed album covers to make her look like someone born after 1958 .
cyndi lauper, another 30 - something in the 1980s who got famous about singing about being a
girl
instead of a woman .
pete burns was 26 when he released his album
youthquake
and the other members of british new wave band called
dead or alive
were in their late 20s and early 30s .
the beach boys continued to sing love songs to teenage girls even after they became middle - aged, bearded, creepy men. not counting the unreleased track
lazy lizzy
, in which brian sings about stalking an underage girl, the most pedo - worthy track to appear on a beach boys disc was undoubtedly
hey little tomboy
— made even worse by a bootlegged outtake in which the boys seem bent on gang - raping the title character .
at the age of 26, katy perry played a 13 - year - old high school student in the music video of her song
last friday night (t. g. i. f. )
.
several of taylor swift' s videos, such as
fifteen
,
you belong with me
, and
the story of us
, in which she plays high schoolers. minor examples earlier, as she wasn' t that much older than her characters, but it' s started getting played more and more straight as she gets older (though to her credit, she doesn' t look it) .
van halen' s members were in their late twenties when they came out with the song
hot for teacher
, where david lee roth describes himself not as a college student, not as a high school student, but what sounds like an elementary school (an american school for pre - teens) student, lusting after his teacher. the video averts this by having scenes depicting the band as actual children, as well as being blatantly comedic in the first place .
20 - something ke $ ha has made an entire discography over referring to herself as a young girl who believes herself to be a rebel who is living on the wild side despite her vanilla bubblegum antics, especially her song
die young
( which has endless references to her youth) or the video for
tik tok
( which has her living with her parents and riding a bike because she' s too young to drive). her debut album, animal, was released in 2010 when she was 23 .
in the music video for
stupid girls
by p! nk, she rather convincingly portrays a 16 - year - old girl (purging in the bathroom during a school dance), as well as other characters covering a wide age range. she herself was 27 .
in the music video for
sixteen military wives
by the decemberists, the band members portray a high school model un. they all look at least ten years too old for the role. however, most of the actors in the video who aren' t band members look plausibly teenage, and one of them is clearly in fact too young .
the music video for fancy, featuring 24 - year - old iggy azalea, 22 - year - old charli xcx, and their equally adult friends portraying teen characters from the high school film clueless .
the song and video for gwen stefani' s
hollaback girl
, which depicts gwen as a high - schooler. she was 36 .
in her video for
mickey
, toni basil portrays a high school cheerleader. she was 39 at the time .
rob halford of judas priest mixed this with boomerang bigot on the group' s 1986 synth - metal album turbo, which included songs about how teenagers are
wild
,
hot
and crazy
and adults are uncool. most blatantly, there' s the line
we don' t need no, no, no, no parental guidance here !
halford was in his mid - thirties when he wrote and sang that line, making him more like a cool young uncle than a hip teen .
in the music video for
bad
, michael jackson, who was 29 at the time, plays a high school student .
hustle' s monster bono was only six years younger than his
father
, the great muta, and was seven years older than his mother, yinling the erotic terrorist .
tna did a storyline where
father
james mitchell claimed to be the father of abyss... except taking into account their relative ages meant that mitchell was only 9 when abyss would have been born .
bull nakano produce empress featured a 50s & 40s & 30s & 20s & 10s five on five tag team match with a wrestler on each side for each age group, except for one of the 10s was dramatic dream team' s cherry, who had claimed to be 18 eight years ago and would logically would be 26 .
kelly kelly evoked this, even though her character was intentionally written to subvert it. when hired to appear as an
exhibitionist
on ecw on scifi in the late spring of 2006, barbara jean blank, born in 1986, was not yet 20 (her birthday is in december) and looked even younger than that. the commentators and other performers frequently called attention to the fact that kelly was
underage
, even though 20 is comfortably over the age of consent in the united states and most european countries; they were merely trying to emphasize that she was the youngest person on the entire roster. as if those innuendoes weren' t enough, kelly was also paired romantically with mike knox, a man so gargantuan that he looked more like her father than her boyfriend - and who acted like her father, too .
quite common with shows involving puppetry that have characters who represent children. the most notable example is sesame street, which has several characters who are supposed to be children, but sound like adults .
in pokemon live, the characters are pre - teens. the actors... aren' t. kind of inevitable, really .
, 26 - year - old edward rutledge was played by then - forties john cullum. there' s even a line in the play about how rutledge is the youngest man in congress. but who cares about that when you' ve got cullum' s beautiful soaring baritone ?
done for artistic reasons in the golden ticket, an opera based on charlie and the chocolate factory — to emphasize charlie' s innocence and kindness compared to the other kids in the story, he' s the only character played by a kid. the four brats and several jealous tots who are at hand for the factory opening are all played by adults .
in wicked the age range of the leads elphaba and glinda is about 18 - 23 years, and sometimes there are actresses those ages that play them; but more often than not the roles are given to women in their late - 20' s to mid - 30' s, and sometimes even older .
the 2015 broadway production of gigi has 26 - year - old vanessa hudgens playing 18 - year - old gigi. coincidentally, leslie caron was the same age when the original film was made. on the other hand, the role of gaston, who was played by 36 - year - old actor in the film, is being performed on broadway by corey cott, who' s only 24 !
in the novel of les misérables, fantine only reaches her mid 20s, while grown - up cosette and éponine are only about 16 or 17. in the musical, cosette and éponine tend to be played by actresses in their 20s, while fantine' s actresses tend to be in their 30s or older. this is even the case in the 2012 film version, with 30 - year - old anne hathaway as fantine, 27 - year - old amanda seyfried as cosette and 22 - year - old samantha barks as éponine .
due to the fact that hamilton covers such a long period of time—1776 to 1804 not including the prologue covering the first 19 years of alexander hamilton' s life—this was pretty much a necessity. however, by far the most blatant example occurs with alexander' s eldest son phillip. he' s the only one of the hamiltons' eight children with a role in the play (the other kids are mentioned but he' s the only one who appears), and the same adult actor plays him at both 9 years old and 19. it helps that his original actor, anthony ramos, has a smaller frame, boyish face, and higher vocal range, making it much less distracting than, say, having the hulking baritone okieriete onaodowan (hercules mulligan in the first act, james madison in the second) in that role .
hamlet is a tough call. according to the play, he just interrupted his studies at wittenberg, so he' s not even graduated college. but elsewhere, the play mentions him as being in his thirties. maybe shakespeare couldn' t do maths very well. plus, the role of
hamlet
has acquired a reputation as being sort of the
crown jewel
of an actor' s career, so you' ll find men cast as hamlet when they' re in their thirties or older, usually at the height of their fame. it may be an aversion, though, as plenty of older men went to study at university later in their lives and still do today .
it' s very rare that you' ll see a production of romeo and juliet where romeo is seventeen, much less one where juliet is barely fourteen. leaving aside the challenges of mastering shakespeare' s language and characters, the subject matter (including a rushed marriage, murder, and suicide) is dark and bracing enough as it is. sometimes the production will just age lift juliet by a few years, even if the actors are still out of their teens .
likewise, cio - cio san in madame butterfly is supposed to be fifteen in act i and eighteen in the later acts. but considering the difficulty of her role, she requires a master performer with a fully developed voice, so she (and many other opera ingenues) are dawson casted .
puny humans has emma, a pre - teen, played by a mid - 20s actress, albeit a short one older than they look .
spring awakening is about early high - school - aged students (fourteen or fifteen years old) having sex. the script calls for simulated masturbation, a light bdsm scene, and a sex scene in which the original broadway choreography calls for the female and male lead to briefly appear topless and bare - butted, respectively. even if individual productions choose to omit the nudity (as colleges often will if appearing in plays is a requirement to graduate from certain majors), the subject matter and language still make dawson casting a safe bet .
most productions of the king and i, including the film, apply this trope to anna leonowens and playing gertrude to the king, presumably to make their battle of wills feel more evenly matched and to enhance their unresolved sexual tension. the real anna was in her late 20s or early 30s (though she most likely claimed to be younger than she was) when she came to siam, while king mongkut was nearly 60, but they' re usually both played by performers in their mid to late 30s or 40s .
the teenagers in final fantasy viii look to be in their early to mid - 20s. since the game is supposed to be like an american - style high school drama and was made at the height of squaresoft' s period of trying to be' cinematic', it comes across as an intentional stab at creating the look of a dawson - cast movie. this is especially apparent with squall, who was modelled after a musician who had been in his 30s at the time of development .
angela from silent hill 2 is intended to be a teenager, but was played by an actress in her 40' s. this was done on purpose to emphasize how damaged she was after her dark and troubled past .
the last of us 14 - year old ellie is voiced by 30 - year old ashley johnson. additionally, 16 - year old riley is voiced by 32 - year old yaani king (and they both sound it, especially the latter) .
be up to a year, making tedd eighteen. she then goes on to say that it doesn' t matter anyways since none of them are likely to look any different before they turn 30 .
though the revelation that he may be under the drinking age causes tedd to excuse himself so that he can dispose of a keg in the fridge before his dad finds it .
this was the initial reason that some viewers suspected lonelygirl15 to be a hoax. the real life implications of this are apparent in an episode of maxterbexter, in which former lonelygirl15 actors becki gregoski and maxwell glick complain about needing to show id before they would be served alcohol, even though maxwell glick was 29 at the time .
on the website hosting the whateley universe, the stories centering on chau lee (bladedancer) are often illustrated with pictures of zhang ziyi. the character is fifteen, the actress at least twelve years older ...
mocked in a very potter musical with clearly college aged darren criss stating
i' m just a 12 - year - old kid
.
lucas cruikshank was 14 when he started playing six - year - old fred figglehorn. justified in that he created the character to be performed by himself .
20 - something bhargav playing ma - ti, who is somewhere around 14. he said he was fourteen when he woke up to see marz gurl and the nostalgia chick in bed with him .
lindsay and doug both play teenage versions of their characters in videos, respectively 27 and 30 as of writing .
because she' s short and they have clothes that will hide her bust, tamara often plays kids in critic skits .
behind the veil is an interesting case of this, with the
actors
being limited to celebrity representations of what the character' s appearance would be. however several characters ages are either older or younger than the celebrities portraying them, for example the 32 - year - old jack raven being represented by the 45 - year - old jeffrey dean morgan .
star wars uncut: in this fan film remake of star wars: a new hope during the scene on the death star bridge leia (circa 20 years old) is played by a woman who has got to be pushing 80 .
epic rap battles of history —
romeo & juliet vs. bonnie & clyde
: in the original play by shakespeare, juliet is only 13 years old, while romeo is probably not much older. this was lampshaded by their opponents, where bonnie called juliet a
prebuscent vixen
, and clyde referred to romeo as a
boy
. in real life, grace helbig (juliet' s actress) is a year older than bonnie' s actress, hannah heart (they' re 30 and 29, respectively). while nicepeter, who portrayed romeo, is 36 .
south park couldn' t help but use this trope when they did the live action reenactment in
i should have never gone ziplining
by casting guys in their mid 20s to play the ten year old boys. cue the narrator emphasizing
these four 4th graders
throughout .
parodied in an episode of family guy, in which the
older kid
on dawson' s creek is an old lady who behaves in a stereotypically grandmotherly way (fixing dylan' s sock for him, and reminiscing about how things used to be) .
the ember island players play it straight. all of the adolescent characters are played by very obviously adult actors .
lampshaded in - universe in a third season episode of kim possible called ,
and the mole rat will be cgi ,
where a famous action movie director about kim, ron and rufus, and the director decides to cast an actress named heather to play kim and an actor named quinn to play ron—ron points out that heather and quinn are in their late 20s, and are thus way too old to be playing high school - aged teenagers .
lampshaded in the tiny toon adventures episode
thirteensomething
, where babs disguises herself to get a role on the titular show (which has a humans - only cast). her paper - thin disguise features a much curvier figure than you' d expect for a human girl of babs' approximate age .
the virgin mary is usually played by an actress over the age of 20, but historians say she was about 14 when she became pregnant with jesus. (obviously there' s no evidence for mary' s actual age, but she clearly has the status of a girl who will be married soon, but not yet, and the ancient jews had pretty strict cultural norms about at what age you went through important milestones in life. )
it' s a common lesson, in art class, that the more lines you add while drawing a face, the more aged your subject will look. also, the more angular the subject in the picture is, the older they will look. therefore, most young characters should be drawn with no lines and a rounded face. some artists don' t apply these rules .
in
how to draw comics the marvel way ,
drawing comics in the style of detective comics comics ,
aping shit the valiant way ,
and every other drawing tutorial i' ve been a part of, it clearly says that every line you draw on a person' s face adds to their age. when you' re drawing children or sexy young women you give them clean surfaces to suggest youth and a tightness of veins, and when you draw clint eastwood in an eyepatch hanging out with gen 13 you draw all over his face to let people know he' s old. depending on who you talk to, every line can equal a year added onto the life of your character. shaft, the young leader of rogue operative team
youngblood ,
is 900 years old .
in a rather squicky and creepy example, a 29 - year - old named neil rodreick iii was found posing as the 7th grader (12 years old) casey price, fooling even the two people he was living with .
a woman from texas, treva throneberry (mentioned in the live - action tv section), pretended to be a teenager throughout her 20s and early 30s and moved from foster home to foster home. she got a tuition to go to college and was finally arrested for fraud. interestingly, she didn' t look especially youthful .
31 - year - old patricia dye posed as a teenage boy so that she could have sex with a teen girl.
tengers is a 2007 south african animated film written , directed and produced by michael j. rix . it is the first full-length animation produced in south africa and uses the claymation technique . the film is a satirical black comedy about life in post-apartheid south africa . rix has said his intention was to make a film that was : " entertaining but not frivolous . political but not preachy . sophisticated but not alienating . " 
tengers is a 2007 south african animated film written, directed and produced by michael j. rix. it is the first full-length animation produced in south africa and uses the claymation technique. the film is a satirical black comedy about life in post-apartheid south africa. rix has said his intention was to make a film that was: " entertaining but not frivolous. political but not preachy. sophisticated but not alienating. "
tengers is a 2007 south african animated film written, directed and produced by michael j. rix. it is the first full-length animation produced in south africa and uses the claymation technique. the film is a satirical black comedy about life in post-apartheid south africa. rix has said his intention was to make a film that was: " entertaining but not frivolous. political but not preachy. sophisticated but not alienating. "