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Matt Damon = Henry Fonda

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I can kind of see that, but Henry Fonda always seems old to me, and Damon isn't up to that age yet. Even young Henry Fonda was old. But other than that, that one might work.

Edit: I wonder if this lineage works: Henry Fonda = Mel Gibson = Matt Damon. If you think back to Gibson's early work, I think it's pretty like Fonda, and Damon is easier to imagine as Gibson rather than as Fonda directly. At least for me.

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Fonda was always more severe, drawn, thoughtful. And, as you noted, when young, too. Damon is kind of apple-cheeked, robustly healthy and vigorous. Fonda may have been strong, but vigorous, I didn't feel. He's the kind of guy who would always play the leader in a film like Mr. Roberts, not one of the clowns around him, or one of the clowns in Oceans 11.

I could, however, see Fonda saying, "How do ya like them apples?"