[ SECRET POST #2741 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2741 ⌋

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Comments

Yeah, shocking that they cast attractive people for key roles.

[(Anonymous)]

Why would they do that? It's not like it works or anything.

The reality is that attractiveness sells - if an actor isn't pretty, they had better be talented as hell, charismatic as hell, or not pretty in a very interesting way.

Re: Yeah, shocking that they cast attractive people for key roles.

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't about the underlying attractiveness of the actors -- it's about how many prosthetics were glued onto their faces to make them look more dwarfy.

OP here

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. THANK you. Everyone here is like "well, duh, looks sell, people like attractive people" and is kind of missing the point? Maybe my secret wasn't worded the best way but I meant to say Jackson and team kept REMOVING Armitage's dwarf prosthetics and Kili's bloated forehead and real beard till they looked more like themselves than dwarves, but tried to make to make it sound like it was because dwarves had different looks (even Armitage said this in an interview), just like the race of Men, blah blah, when clearly everyone else BESIDES the Durins looks very dwarvish while the Durins look like short good-looking Men. PJ & crew don't want to admit making the three mains look like random unappealing dwarves would have hurt the box office. ;) And put a stop to a lot of fangirl attention.

So much for squeeing and fangirling over dwarves and their culture and lore and whatnot, when the fandom's fuelled the most by the three dwarves that don't look like dwarves anyway. I find that interesting.

Re: OP here

[(Anonymous)]

That happens, though, in many movies where they want to see the actor (because of the recognition, because of the attractiveness, etc.), it happens in monster movies (they rarely go for the grotesque vampire, werewolves don't spend much time fully transformed, etc.), in superhero movies (if they have a mask or helmet, they are rarely in it), hell it happens with things like beards sometimes (instead of using a beard as a disguise in The Fugitive, they have him with a beard to begin with so that he's clean shaven through most of the movie). But, yes, it's a little disingenuous for the production team to say that it's for character reasons.

Re: OP here

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

...yyyyyeah, if the moviemakers are claiming the prosthetic reduction was for any reason other than upping the attractiveness, they're lying. Blatantly. I'm not sure how they can say it with a straight face lying.