Cause no living female would pass on that gorgeous looking hunk of a man. I don't care how stupid he was, lol. Not saying Stephen was stupid but you would have to test the water at least once. Way too fine to pass on, lol.
shareI don't have a problem with him being handsome, Cassie notes others have mentioned he looks like a "Greek god" but she can't see it due to her seeing him as a pal/brother however it does seem incredible that the desperate for romance Rose wouldn't have been taken with him. Stephen isn't particular believable to me because he is way too gentle and well-mannered for his uneducated very lower-class roots. I can see him being super handsome but his personality should be a little earthier, unconsciously unrefined. Instead he's as well turned out as the wealthy Cotton boys and in a couple of scenes actually has a rather clothes for someone who has been working as a long unpaid handyman.
shareHaha....it's been a long time since I saw this film but it was my first glimpse of Henry Cavill and I was floored. The casting was perfect actually because it advanced my feeling reading the book that Stephen was a better man than Simon any day.
Watching the adaptation with my friends, we were practically tearing our hair out that she couldn't see the appeal in sweet, beautiful Stephen rather than weaselly Simon. Needed to check in here in advance of watching Man of Steel :)
Stephen was supposed to be physically desirable. him being kind of "ideal" as a young lover was the whole point--he was beautiful, grew up close with her and was in 'love' with her (debatable), was nonthreatening....i.e. of lower class, etc. however, any connection Cassandra could have made with him would have been completely shallow. as a person he was simple and lacking intellectual depth, incapable of the sort of passionate all consuming romance that Cassandra wanted. also, him being in 'love' with her was probably as shallow as his character was, more about him wanted to climb the social ladder than anything else---it was more him wanting something for himself rather than anything between them as people. he moved on to find a wealthy older woman to take care of him. I think most of the reason why there's so much talk about him from this movie is due to Henry Cavill, he was WAY too charismatic and weighty to play this part. Stephen was supposed to be beautiful, dull, and dumb, which is not how Cavill came across at all. not saying he did a bad job, if anything he was too good for this--I learned about who he was through this movie and he's the one thing that I remember from watching it lol.
shareI wonder why the author of the book and film made Stephen look like a "Greek god". In a more realistic scenario he would have been a simple farm boy, in love with a girl above his social rank. But apparently the authors found that this is a way too depressing and boring destiny for the boy. Being a farmer is depressing and boring, right? So they decided to give him outstanding looks and a promising acting career.
shareI think that was the point. She knew they all said he was handsome but she didn't feel anything for him. He was more like a brother to her.
It fits in the story. She didn't even want to fall in love but she did. With Simon.
I think the whole point ot this movie is that as I stated on another post. Love isn't that logical. It's easy to analyze a script or a story. But real love isn't that way. It's weird and messy and strange and funny and quite illogical sometimes.