Why does Matt Damon look the same in 1940 and 1960?

CIA worked on a magic formula (later nicknamed 'The Fountain of Youth') that turned out to be life prolonging. It was tested on Ed Wilson.
On a side note Matt Damon was injected with this stuff (method acting) and if you study old pictures, you'll notice how he hardly aged during the shooting of The Good Shepherd

Director's idea. DeNiro didn't want to use old age make up. Just wanted to gray up his hair around the edges.

"What happens to a dream deferred?"

Its not like Matt Damon's character is a senior citizen by the end of the film. You can still look relatively young in your 40's. Then again, working in a high-stress environment like in the CIA, you'd probably show your age after a while.

I found that the most distracting thing in the film. The scenes with his grown son were awkward for that. Of course that's not his fault... that's make-up and casting. Angelina Jolie did look like she aged though and was more believable, IMHO.

well truth be told, they didn't do enough to make him look young in the early scenes (cause the man was 36 when the film was made and so his age in the film really caught up to the actors real age and only passed it by what 5 or 6 years. Heck, the actor now in his 40s, doesn't really look all that different today as he did in his 20s.

but his constant cloths also would reduce his visual variability and the fact that he always dresses the same, has the same hair, and wears a hat... he would look pretty similar across a mere 20 years.
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That's nothing. In Dogma his character was thousands of years old and still looked like he was 30. Even in real life, he doesn't really age.


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