Do Midgets Make Everything Better?

[Soul_Angel]

Whenever I channel surf I turn to something with midgets on it. Just last night I was channel surfing and there were a bunch of wrestling midgets. I just kept watching that. I always do watch something with midgets included in it. Do midgets actually make everything better or funnier?

[Toma-kun]

I don't like the way they take advantage of midgets, but it's interesting to see what kind of things they can do.

[Soul_Angel]

I just find midgets hilarious. Especially Wee-Man...that midget is the best!!!

[Silver]

In my case, no.

[UPRC]

*ahem*

Little people.

[Soul_Angel]

I don't know why, but you just saying "Little People" is funny to me.

[Lucca]

I don't like the way they take advantage of midgets, but it's interesting to see what kind of things they can do.It bothers me, too... especially when you realize a lot of older movies use midgets to opperate small costumes (such as E.T. and R2D2). Not only were these cramped and uncomforable inside but often quite dangerous, too. At least this is becoming rarer now that better technology (and not to mention CG) are available.

[Soul_Angel]

I just think midgets are funny that's all. I don't try to insult them in any way.

[Lucca]

that's alright, I didn't say it was wrong to have midgets in entertainment, I just hate it when they're exploited, some of the stuff I've seen makes stunt people look like they have it easy.

[Soul_Angel]

Sometimes they choose to be exploited. Take Wee-Man for example. He chooses to do the stuff he did on Jackass and Wild Boyz.

[Lucca]

If it's their choice than its not an issue. I was referring to the movies of the seventies and eighties where migets and dwarves who wanted to have an acting career had limited choice on the roles they played. Actually, George Lucas wanted Luke Skywalker to be played by a dwarf or midget but the idea was scrapped because the end result would probably have resembled a "LOTR space opera".

[Toma-kun]

As opposed to "rip off of famous Westerns and Samurai flicks"?

I could not imagine Luke being a midget. :D

[Soul_Angel]

If Luke would be a midget then I don't think people would consider the movie as an action movie, but more of a comedy.

[Lucca]

It probably would make it unintentionally comedic. I'm sure what George Lucas was originally aiming for was a "halfling"-like character, like frodo. Although according to Tolkien's books halflings (unlike real-life midgets and dwarfs) are normally porportioned (with the exception of their feet); they're just small. So having a midget cast as a hobbit would be sorta inaccurate (that's likely why Jackson used regular-porportioned actors and camera tricks in LOTR).
On a similar note, it's just speculation, but I bet Lucas made the movie "Willow" after his original Star Wars ideas feel flat. It has many parallels to LOTR and stars Warwick Davis...

[Silver]

Luke a midget? That would be kinda weird =/

[Soul_Angel]

That's what I said, I'd still want to see Star Wars, but I'd go see it to laugh. This kind of reminds me of a cartoon comedy rip off of a cross between Star Wars and Star Trek called Star Warped. It had characters from other movies too though. It was a really funny movie, but it was only like an hour long if even that.

[ViralArtist]

I dno, Hmm

I once heard of a very nast site inwhich had nothing to do with Midgets except for the name...

...I will refrain from stating it

[Soul_Angel]

That's probably one of the exceptions about midgets making everything better.