Old No. 587: The Great Train Robbery (2000) and Child Actors
Good child actors can be hard to find. This is something that I’ve heard people say, or seen people write many times. People say that child actors tend to be bad. They say that it can be hard to watch a child actor perform because they are just being children and not the characters. It’s something that comes up again and again with the release of new movies that star children as the main characters. For the most part I can see that side of the argument. A movie that can help that side of the argument is Old No. 587: The Great Train Robbery . This is a movie for children that is about children and the antics that the children get up to. It exemplifies what people are talking about when they say that child actors are usually not the best. That is far from the only problem that the movie has, but it is the problem that I am going to focus on for the majority of the writing. Let me first discuss reasons that good child actors seem hard to find. The main rea