From my understanding, Peter blasted Hollywood for wanting to use little people to cast as dwarves. The little people actors in Hollywood were pissed at Peter because that’s like the only roles they ever get. Now instead of using real people they use CGI, so Peter basically stole seven roles from real actors in Hollywood.
The Cliffs Notes version is that Walt thought actors were too unreliable and inconsistent. With perfected animatronics, who needed actors? Obviously it’s more nuanced than that but that’s the gist.
From my understanding, Peter blasted Hollywood for wanting to use little people to cast as dwarves. The little people actors in Hollywood were pissed at Peter because that’s like the only roles they ever get. Now instead of using real people they use CGI, so Peter basically stole seven roles from real actors in Hollywood.
So instead, they just… CGI’d dwarves? How is that any better?
I remember seeing promo or set photos of actual people that still didn’t seem much better.
Edit: Ah, this was the image.
WTF? There’s one actual dwarf there.
Also, this looks like cosplays from a ren faire.
When they went CGI they also took 6 roles from any actors because they are having one person do all the motion capture.
This is entirely Disney’s fault for missing the point about steretypes and making it about casting so they could hire fewer actors.
See Defunctland’s recent video addressing why Disney was so obsessed with animatronics…
I would, but Defunctland has a habit of making videos twice as long as they should be.
The Cliffs Notes version is that Walt thought actors were too unreliable and inconsistent. With perfected animatronics, who needed actors? Obviously it’s more nuanced than that but that’s the gist.
Even if they insist on using CG for the dwarves, maybe don’t make them horrific nightmares?
Yikes, thanks for clearing that up.