Heredity, ain’t it wonderful?
I present to you Exhibit A, actor Jake Hoffman (aka Dustin Hoffman’s son):
A little more handsome than his dad, though, don’t you think?
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I present to you Exhibit A, actor Jake Hoffman (aka Dustin Hoffman’s son):
A little more handsome than his dad, though, don’t you think?
Yes, but Dustin wasn’t too bad looking either, when he was the same age, wouldn’t you say?
I suspect we think of him as he is now rather than as he was then. And I’ve noticed that holds true for a lot of actors.
And probably taller.
Geoffrey Britain:
The first time I ever saw Dustin Hoffman was in “The Graduate,” and I thought him un-goodlooking at the time. So I don’t think it’s that for me. I also thought the character in “The Graduate” was strange and whiney and childish. But I did like the movie.
See this.
neo,
I didn’t mean to imply that Hoffman was ever good looking, just not too bad looking. His features were symmetrical enough, it was his honking big snooze that couldn’t be overlooked.
Hoffman’s character in the Graduate is lost and adrift without the faintest idea, now that he’s graduated, with what he will do with his life. He’s literally dragged into the affair and IMO, it’s symbolic of the young’s blaming of the older generation for the state of the world. Young love of course resolves all issues and provides the needed ‘hope’ for positive ‘change’.
Bancroft was paradoxically, both a recognized treasure and somewhat forgotten, I suspect largely unappreciated because Hollywood has so few roles with gravitas for ‘mature’ women.
Okay, so a guy named Hoffman was in “The Graduate”? Jeeez, all I remember was the drop-dead gorgeous Katherine Ross. And that irritating guy at the pool saying,”Plastics…”
Katherine Ross was gorgeous but focusing strictly upon her would result in missing a lot.
Besides Bancroft and Hoffman’s acting and the movie’s questionable subtext, it turns out that, any investor who, after seeing the movie, went out and invested in the plastics industry, would have done very well indeed. In the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s the plastics industry skyrocketed.
}}} A little more handsome than his dad, though, don’t you think?
It’s the schnozz. He has a much more “average” nose.
The question really is — does he have any acting talent…? Because I’ll take the talent with the schnozz any day.
“strange and whiney and childish”
Not just in the graduate – Dustin Hoffman always seemed that way to me – good-looking or not; whiney and childish is not endearing.
Geoffrey Britain:
Bancroft was 36 years old when she made “The Graduate.”
Hoffman was 30.
Hey – that doesn’t look like the kid from Kramer vs Kramer 😉
What’s with the bed hair? It’s one thing if the guy just got out of bed. But dressed up….
Fake. Artificial. If there’s any implied anything, it’s destroyed by the…fake, artificial, look-at-me, which looks like other guys trying to be…something or other.
Sheesh. Pay your Actors Equity, wait tables, remember your lines, don’t trip over the furniture. Show up on time.
In between, don’t bother the rest of us.
Never thought he was particularly attractive but my favorite Hoffman performance was Tootsie. Hilarious, screwball-type comedy.
I wonder if that film would even get made these days, now that “gender-bending” has become such a charged issue.
Jake looks a little like Rob Morrow from Northern Exposure.
What’s it with his eye alignment? Just an effect of that particular image?
But he certainly does bear a resemblance to his father alright.
Hey that reminds me, I loaned out a DVD copy of Straw Dogs and never got it back …
Dustin Hoffman never appealed to me and I did not like The Graduate, although I always thought Anne Bancroft was one classy, beautiful lady.
I thought Tootsie was stupid.
Separated at birth – Dustin Hoffman and Paul Anka?
Susanamantha:
I didn’t particularly like “Tootsie” either. For one thing, I didn’t think Hoffman was believable as a woman for a single second, so the whole premise didn’t work for me. As comedy it left a lot to be desired, too.
But my least favorite Hoffman offering was probably his turn as Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman.” I like the play, but detested that movie. The only thing more absurd in it than Hoffman as Loman was John Malkovich as Biff. Completely miscast.
Geoffrey: Kidding, for Gawdsake!! (*Though Katherine was gorgeous.*)
By sheer alignment of the planets I saw an incredible production of Arthur Miller’s, “A View From the Bridge” at the Circle on the Square in The Village in June, ’65, just after my sophomore year in college. Loved it. Years later I came across the ‘paper’ from that night: Lordy, no wonder it was impressive. John Voight & Robert Duval in the cast and Dustin was Assistant Director!! ALL unknowns at the time except by stage insiders in NYC.