Rather than using regular size actors for the hobbits and dwarf and having to go through the hassle of making them look small, why didn't Jackson just use small people for the entire roles?
Rather than using regular size actors for the hobbits and dwarf and having to go through the hassle of making them look...
Christian Cox
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Hunter Morgan
Small people are deformed.
Nicholas Garcia
Because actual midgets are pretty unpleasant to look at and look silly from a distance. The shots with actual midget doubles are really jarring.
Luis Lee
>The shots with actual midget doubles are really jarring.
Which shots?
Joshua Davis
How do midgets get away with it? Imagine having such a recognizable deformity and still living a happy life where you dont care what others think
Dominic Baker
>low quality bait
Daniel Ross
because dwarfs and midgets are incredibly angry, violent people
Joseph Davis
'Hobbit' is a meanie slang to midgets. besides, they look freakish and good luck finding one who could act as well as Elijah
Ayden Stewart
Will there be practical effects this good ever again? Seems like studios have realized they can half ass the cgi and normies will still eat it up
Jonathan Rogers
You ever see a midget climb a mountain? It's hilarious, all of the Frodo/Sam scenes where they climb around would have 0 emotional tension.
Andrew Richardson
do midgets have knees?
Oliver Kelly
>It's hilarious, all of the Frodo/Sam scenes where they climb around would have 0 emotional tension.
What are you talking about?
Cameron Ramirez
No one wants to see midgets acting.
Joseph Baker
The audience would see the actors flail as the try to climb over a rock and they'd laugh, rather than take in the gravity of the scene.
Colton Foster
>The dwarf is the tallest one
the fuck
Tyler Watson
So the actors representing the men, the elf, and the Maiar are standing on a bench right? Is that how this scene was constructed?
Easton Butler
actual dwarfs are really uncoordinated
William Lewis
chads every one of 'em
Angel King
They filmed it in two sequences
Carter Allen
>thinking elijah wood's head is a fourth the size of sean bean's
user...
Grayson Lopez
Green screen. Sometimes camera tricks and funky angles just aren't enough.
Nathan Howard
Because they have a peculiar way of walking that would be extremely noticeable and disrupting.
The Hobbits aren't supposed to be disproportionate humans, they're a different race.
John Torres
There are a bunch of shots where the Hobbits and Gimli are replaced by body doubles and they're usually really obvious. There are a few of Pippin running around Minas Tirith where he's clearly a midget in armour.
Jaxson Foster
Hobbits and midgets don't share the same porportions.
Brayden Wilson
Yeah, they didn't use midgets as body doubles, they used children.
Eli Bailey
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>Yeah, they didn't use midgets as body doubles
They did use midgets as doubles though. This is the double for Frodo and there were three others:
Jeremiah James
This is kinda awkward because the hobbits kinda seem to grow and shrink over the franchise. Like in LOTR, Jackson really played up how small they were compared to the men. By the end of the series he seems to get tired of it. Seeing Merry and Pippin so much in TTT and ROTK they just started to seem almost regular height compared to the men and orcs they were around.
Elijah Reyes
*Like in FOTR
Tyler Sanders
they used a bunch of badass stunt double midgets that could probably kick your ass.
Austin Gutierrez
to be fair those two grew a few inches to became the tallest Hobbits in history after getting a dose of Fangorn's mountain HGH
Caleb Torres
shut the fuck up, no they didn't.
why do people try and school other people on things they don't know about
Jack Morgan
>to be fair those two grew a few inches to became the tallest Hobbits in history after getting a dose of Fangorn's mountain HGH
Not canon
Angel Lopez
their stature was used to show their heroic arc
it's pottery
Carson Powell
Canon as fuck. They went from 3’half average joes to 4’something giga chads.
Jaxson Moore
when the Indian guy told vigo he couldn't swim....
Matthew Carter
That's in the book
Jonathan Jackson
>Vigo, save yourself, I can't swim! I'm even afraid to take a bath!
Based behind the scenes bantz
Kevin Myers
Nope
Mason Fisher
It's been done!
Jason Bennett
Juan Butler
Pippin had a midget asian girl for a double
John Cruz
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Hudson White
Here she is with Viggo
kinda qt
Nolan Rodriguez
That's cheating because Cleese is like 6ft5.
Adam Diaz
this one for example
Joseph Green
it's in the fucking book. They became ultra chads in Hobbit terms. They btfo everyone when they returned to the sacking of the Shire.
Anthony Allen
Midgets aren't human
Chase Anderson
Nicholas Scott
Tolkien is a hack and only dicklet virgins think otherwise
Lincoln Cook
The books aren't canon
Eli Hughes
I hope it's good.