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Post by willywonka666 on Jun 6, 2012 9:33:15 GMT -5
(TMZ) Little people across Hollywood are rising up against the producers of "Snow White and the Huntsman" -- for casting tall people in the role of Snow White's dwarfs -- and now, a prominent "midget" theater group plans to stage an over-sized protest. The wee man leading the charge is a guy named Matt McCarthy -- a 4'1" self-described "midget" who works for Beacher's Madhouse at the Roosevelt Hotel, a theater troupe that features more than 20 little people. Like Little People of America, McCarthy's pissed "midgets" weren't cast as Snow White's dwarfs in the new movie -- producers cast normal-sized actors instead, digitally resizing their limbs or transplanting their faces onto little people's bodies. But McCarthy's not fuming in silence -- he just fired off a letter to Universal Chairman Adam Fogelson, informing him, "In response to and in protest of this incredible injustice and prejudice, the Beacher's Madhouse midgets and I are coordinating a 100-midget march to Universal's offices." McCarthy adds, casting average-sized actors as Snow White's dwarfs "is the equivalent of Universal casting a white actor to play a role written for an African-American person and digitally changing the color of their skin." So far, a date for the march hasn't been set. That is really messed up. Has anyone here seen the film and noticed? Here's a pic from the movie and some of the "dwarves"  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 9:34:36 GMT -5
No intention to see the movie, but this doesn't surprise me at all.
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Post by VenomFang on Jun 6, 2012 9:39:53 GMT -5
producers cast normal-sized actors instead, digitally resizing their limbs or transplanting their faces onto little people's bodies. I dont know if thats stupid or messed up or both. |
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Post by Krimzon on Jun 6, 2012 9:41:54 GMT -5
Come the f*** on...Nobody had a problem with the hobbits in LotR not being actual midgets, so why now? Does it really matter? It's a f***ing movie! They can use whoever they want however they want.
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Post by Legion on Jun 6, 2012 9:44:04 GMT -5
CGI, robbing honest acting dwarves of their go to role!
Lolz, who cares?
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Post by VenomFang on Jun 6, 2012 9:46:00 GMT -5
They always choose CGI over practical even though practical is more practical. Doesnt make sense but thats their logic. Once CGI became commonplace, they fell in love with it and kept using it over practial effects even though it looked pretty fake. Lucky for them its gotten more realistic looking over time. They love wasting money on these big CGI crapfests like Green Lantern and Battleship which look like one giant video game than a movie.
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Post by Bobeddy on Jun 6, 2012 9:51:49 GMT -5
Wait, Ian McShane, Rany Winstone and Bob Hoskins AREN'T actual dwarves???
How is this news? Like Krimzon said, this wasn't an issue for LOTR, I doubt it's gonna be an issue for The Hobbit. Why is it an issue here?
Let's be honest, imagine all the people in the world who want to be actors. Now imagine how many of them are actually any bit good or lucky enough to make it to movies. Now consider all the people who want to be actors AND are dwarves. So how many of them can there be that are actually good enough to stick in a movie?
Off the top of my head I can think of Peter Dinklage, maybe Warwick Davis.
I've obviously never heard of the guys making the complaints but maybe the reason they didn't pick these guys is cos they're in a theater group and aren't actually that great.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Jun 6, 2012 10:40:43 GMT -5
Come the f*** on...Nobody had a problem with the hobbits in LotR not being actual midgets, so why now? Does it really matter? It's a f***ing movie! They can use whoever they want however they want. Actually, they did use a lot of midgets, just not in the shots of the main five that were from the front, and didn't have to be cutaways, or using forced perspective. Basically, anytime you saw one of their faces in frame with one of the taller actors, it was them, but anytime it was from the rear, it was a midget. |
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Post by Mattification on Jun 6, 2012 10:46:11 GMT -5
TBH, fantasy dwarves and actual dwarves aren't really the same thing so I don't think the role of a fantasy dwarf has to go to a 'little person'.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jun 6, 2012 13:49:11 GMT -5
they should totally make this a plotline if they do a second series for Life's Too Short. because this is just the kind of absurdity that Warwick would get behind.
seriously if they didn't complain when LOTR did it, why start bitching now?
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Post by Cyno on Jun 6, 2012 13:54:28 GMT -5
TBH, fantasy dwarves and actual dwarves aren't really the same thing so I don't think the role of a fantasy dwarf has to go to a 'little person'. Pretty much this, though there's also the guys from Pit Boss, and Ronald and Sebastian from that show were in that other Snow White movie from earlier this year with Julia Roberts. But yeah, the Dwarves in the fairy tale are the fantasy Dwarf race, not people suffering from dwarfism. Now, Tyrion Lannister from ASOIAF IS someone that suffers from dwarfism, so Peter Dinklage was great casting for him. But no one had a problem with casting who they did for the Hobbits and John Rhys-Davies for Gimli in LOTR, so why the complaining now? |
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Post by Randy Barber 4-Life on Jun 6, 2012 14:13:03 GMT -5
seriously if they didn't complain when LOTR did it, why start bitching now? Honestly they probably did and it was just such a blip that no one remembers it now. |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jun 6, 2012 14:13:09 GMT -5
"is the equivalent of Universal casting a white actor to play a role written for an African-American person and digitally changing the color of their skin."
No it isn't. The dwarves in Snow White have always been fantasy characters. They were never dwarves in the sense of just being little people.
Stupid lawsuit.
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Post by Todd's crazy , Man. on Jun 6, 2012 14:16:57 GMT -5
Wait. Bob Hoskins isn't a little person? Has anyone seen the long good Friday? He's like 4'3.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jun 6, 2012 14:20:23 GMT -5
But no one had a problem with casting who they did for the Hobbits and John Rhys-Davies for Gimli in LOTR, so why the complaining now? Because you don't mess around with Tolkien. |
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Post by erisi236 on Jun 6, 2012 14:23:24 GMT -5
And Chris Evans wasn't actually a 90lb weakling in Captain America.
Welcome to movies.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Jun 6, 2012 17:58:43 GMT -5
Eh. You use your size to get a job pal. Maybe if you were a good actor they would have used you instead?
I think it's dumb not to use small guys, because honestly it seems easier, but hey. Their choice.
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Post by Jiren on Jun 6, 2012 18:04:53 GMT -5
It seems to me that this.....  ....will be a short protest |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 18:08:47 GMT -5
It seems to me that this..... ....will be a short protest This, I don't see why they're making such a big deal out of such a small thing. |
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jun 6, 2012 18:10:56 GMT -5
It seems to me that this..... ....will be a short protest |
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