When I am the increasingly demented ruler of Earth

[james_davis_nicoll]

There will be terrible consequences for filmmakers who cannot justify their poorly lit films. Terrible consequences.

Once they are dealt with, all the gratuitous jerky-cam users can also expect a midnight visit from the James Got a Headache Trying to Watch Your Damn Film Police.

Something I realized watching Snow White and the Huntman: today, CGI means movies don't have to hire Little People any more, as regular actors can just be morphed through special effects. I wonder how long it will take for CGI to be used to eliminate other groups from casting calls?

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[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the fact that most of the shots where the supposedly-small characters were next to a normal-sized (or larger) person, they did use actual small people for the shots (see where Bilbo's getting on the ship at Gray Havens in the next-to-last epilog of RotK for an example).

I read somewhere where John Rhys-Davies's small double had more screen time than he did.

Not that the doubles actually got dialog or face shots or anything, but still.