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[–]Gorillion0 points
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Dinklage is the actor not the character.
He has stood out from the usual dwarf actor crowd though. Likely because he was hardcore about the roles he chose. First saw him in a movie called Living in Oblivion, about a cheap indy film being made (based on Johnny Suede IIRC, it takes some potshots at it's Brad Pitt stand-in character). The film features a dream sequence, and Dinklage plays the stereotypical "Surreal Dwarf" and has an explosion about the trope and who in the hell ever had a dream about a dwarf doing something weird anyway.
Then later he turns up in Elf as the super-angry children's book author. Each time he stands out and dominates the scene. And in the not-great SciFI TV show "Surface"(?) he just plays a character who isn't written as a dwarf at all. The snarky science genius guy. Which is pretty interesting, because they kept in the also tropish scene where the boy scout military dude bitches him out and the extreme size difference between them completely blows the dynamics of the scene. It's like watching some serious bullying going down. But he was the stand-out actor in that show nonetheless. I remember thinking that if he was regular size he'd be an A-list movie star.
So I'd give him props on his career trajectory and choices. He focused on being a strong actor and cultivating charisma/presence rather than trading on his obvious novelty value, like most Hollywood creatures do (they play to their "type" for quick results). So when he does play the "subverted expectations" roles, they don't feel un-earned or cheap, but legitimately entertaining. Whereas some awful "Grrl Power" cunt like the Captain Marvel actress just repulses on an atomic level because of how fake and forced she is.
Obviously now I've said this, his next role will be the most obnoxious "gay trans BLM dwarf rights" style Netflix shit you can imagine.
I saw him in another indie film before GOT. Something about trains. Terrible movie, but he is a very good and charismatic actor. I don't think acting is anything special, far from it, but he is good at it.
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[–] TopTierCIAShill ago
they had apartments in Brooklyn in GoT?
[–] Gorillion 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Dinklage is the actor not the character.
He has stood out from the usual dwarf actor crowd though. Likely because he was hardcore about the roles he chose. First saw him in a movie called Living in Oblivion, about a cheap indy film being made (based on Johnny Suede IIRC, it takes some potshots at it's Brad Pitt stand-in character). The film features a dream sequence, and Dinklage plays the stereotypical "Surreal Dwarf" and has an explosion about the trope and who in the hell ever had a dream about a dwarf doing something weird anyway.
Then later he turns up in Elf as the super-angry children's book author. Each time he stands out and dominates the scene. And in the not-great SciFI TV show "Surface"(?) he just plays a character who isn't written as a dwarf at all. The snarky science genius guy. Which is pretty interesting, because they kept in the also tropish scene where the boy scout military dude bitches him out and the extreme size difference between them completely blows the dynamics of the scene. It's like watching some serious bullying going down. But he was the stand-out actor in that show nonetheless. I remember thinking that if he was regular size he'd be an A-list movie star.
So I'd give him props on his career trajectory and choices. He focused on being a strong actor and cultivating charisma/presence rather than trading on his obvious novelty value, like most Hollywood creatures do (they play to their "type" for quick results). So when he does play the "subverted expectations" roles, they don't feel un-earned or cheap, but legitimately entertaining. Whereas some awful "Grrl Power" cunt like the Captain Marvel actress just repulses on an atomic level because of how fake and forced she is.
Obviously now I've said this, his next role will be the most obnoxious "gay trans BLM dwarf rights" style Netflix shit you can imagine.
[–] Ken_bingo2 ago
I saw him in another indie film before GOT. Something about trains. Terrible movie, but he is a very good and charismatic actor. I don't think acting is anything special, far from it, but he is good at it.