this National Lights holiday The series is one of the most popular family series of all time, but it suffers from a serious continuity error regarding the cast, ages, and looks of the Griswolds. The holiday series follows Clark and Ellen’s Griswold family and their two children, Rusty and Audrey. In a series of four original films, The Vacation Movie lists Griswold’s missteps around vacations and vacations, as Clarke desperately tries to make the most of each experience.
The first film, Vacation (1983), follows the strange experiences of the Griswolds as Clark tries to get his family on their station wagon to Walley World ( holiday Disneyland’s cosmic version). The first film’s success was followed by European Vacation in 1985, Christmas Vacation in 1989, and Holiday in Las Vegas in 1997. The films featured some repeated jokes, for example. such as Wally’s World, The Girl in the Red Ferrari, Eddie’s Odd Family’s Cousin, and The Kaleidoscope Griswold Children.
While each film stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo as Clark and Ellen Griswold, Rusty and Audrey are played by different actors in each adaptation. The original Holiday film starred Anthony Michael Hall as Rusty and Dana Barron as Audrey. Dana Barron revealed in an interview that when the sequel was announced after the success of the first, Anthony Michael Hall refused to return as Rusty, so he could be the Strange Science of John Hughes. Instead of finding new actors for Rusty, Amy Heckering decided to cast actors for two children. After “Vacation,” Rusty is played by Jason Lively, Johnny Galecki, and Ethan Embry, while Audrey is played by Dana Hill, Juliette Lewis, and Marisol Nichols.
Not only do the Griswolds change actors, but their ages and looks also fluctuate between films. The kids grow up in a floating timeline, though they’re always in their teens, and the film appears to take place the year it was released. During Vacation, Rusty and Audrey are in their teens or middle ages, with no obvious signs of which sibling is older. Rusty started out with blonde hair, tall and thin, while Audrey was short with long brown hair and tan skin. On a European vacation two years later, the kids are clearly in their teens, and Rusty makes it clear that he’s 15. Audrey doesn’t look much older or different, but Rusty’s hair is light brown now and has no freckles.
Four years later, at Christmas, Audrey is considerably older than Rusty; she looks 17 years old, while he looks younger than before, about 14. This time their looks are completely different: Audrey is tall, with blonde curls and a new look, while Rusty is shorter, with hair dark brown and tanned skin. Eight years later, the kids are still in their teens and they have very different actors. Audrey is now clearly Hispanic, although Clark and Ellen are not Hispanic, and Rusty looks like an older version of Lively.
The ages and looks of the Griswolds were even made fun of during a vacation in Vegas, when Clarke told them he “barely recognized them” before freezing cold in their faces. . holiday The franchise’s ongoing problems, Griswold’s children really have nothing to do with the story: it’s really about Clarke’s struggles as both a family man and a person. teenage father. Chase told TIME that the retelling of the Griswolds was a joke because Clark was a family man but didn’t really understand his children, so he went on to create elaborate campaigns to connect. back with them. National Lights holiday The series focuses on Clark before anyone else, so it’s no surprise that changing the kids is a way to poke fun at his father’s shortcomings.