CGI Bilbo?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by zxcvbn

Sorry, but there's a good reason why PJ used depth perception instead of midget actors in the LOTR trilogy. Midgets, don't have the shape of normal human beings, they're usually disproportionately shaped. Plus they're movements are not like that of normal humans. So no Warwick Davis. And as for Gollum, his strange body shape would have been difficult to replicate without CGI(I think Peter Woodthorpe's portrayal doesn't LOOK right). And if you've seen Beowulf, you'll find that kind of CGI is standard issue these days.

I saw an excerpt from Beowulf and it put me off wanting to see the film. It just looked like a computer game. The late Peter Woodthorpe would physically be unsuited to playing gollum in the flesh and was not (being dead) in the musical.

Midget used to be the technical term for a person of short but proportionate stature but it is now often regarded as an offensive term. And I am entitled ot my preference surely.... I have seen the musical and a flesh and blood Gollum and real short actors won for me over the computer generated film method ... but maybe the French and Saunders spoof stopped me ever taking that seriously again