CGI Bilbo? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 12-20-2007, 01:45 PM

I have to say that I wouldn't even have a CGI Gollum. The flesh and blood one in the musical was amazing. Maybe I saw too many "how it was done" documentaries but I think they overused the CGI.

So how about a low tech answer to casting Bilbo? Warwick Davis, he's the right age (37 is not far of 50 in hobbit years surely) , the right height and has taken a lead in a major fantasy film.

zxcvbn · 12-20-2007, 08:30 PM

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.

Mithalwen · 12-27-2007, 01:39 PM

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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

12-20-2007, 01:45 PM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	I have to say that I wouldn't even have a CGI Gollum. The flesh and blood one in the musical was amazing. Maybe I saw too many "how it was done" documentaries but I think they overused the CGI. So how about a low tech answer to casting Bilbo? Warwick Davis, he's the right age (37 is not far of 50 in hobbit years surely) , the right height and has taken a lead in a major fantasy film. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

12-20-2007, 08:30 PM	#2
zxcvbn Wight Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In front of my PC Posts: 164	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.