Post by Cole Geass on Mar 16, 2017 21:39:10 GMT
Hello, first time poster, glad to be here. As you may or may not have heard, Logan marks Hugh Jackman's final movie as Wolverine, a character he's been playing in movies since 2000. It goes without saying that in 17 years, we have progressed as a culture by coming to acknowledge the erroneous ways we have misrepresented characters in media. Despite the fact that some fictional characters are still being hilariously misrepresented, Hollywood seems to have most definitely become more sensitive to respecting individuals who aren't the majority. Women have more leading roles, blacks are more represented, even LGBT are more recognized in film than ever before. I feel like as a culture we've moved away from the idea that our idles need to be a certain race, or a certain gender, but as many of us know, short-statured people are still highly discriminated against in almost every field.
Short people are in movies and television, but more likely than not they are represented as a freak, or misfit. Supergirl's "Winn" is a short-statured man who is highly disrespected by his peers despite being much smarter than his peers, enduring slanders from his boss such as being called an "elf" or "little man." While this isn't universal among all media, for example It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has Danny Devito play a person of management and authority despite his little height, it may still pose a problem in cinema if Fox miscasts Wolverine now that Hugh Jackman has left.
There is no doubt that Wolverine is the most popular X-Men character, and that many movie fans want to see him as a figure they can idolize. Someone bigger, stronger, tougher than themselves that they can aspire to be like. In the world of comics, we know Wolverine is a mere 5'3'', after all that's why he's WOLVERINE and not "Wolf." Despite his short height in the comics though, he's one of the most popular X-Men, but when it came to cast the short statured antihero on the big screen, Fox casts 6'1'' Hugh Jackman for the role. I'm not saying that this was exclusively because they wanted Wolverine to be tall, but I do believe it was an oversight, that they just figured "Hey Wolverine is important, so let's cast a guy who looks important" and thus the Tall Wolverine character was born.
I liked Hugh Jackman and don't blame or resent anything he or Fox did, but I do believe that now with the opportunities ahead, they should take the height of their actor into more consideration for the next Wolverine. Putting a more accurately statured Wolverine on the screen and showing what a badass or powerful man he is may help ease people into the progressive ideas of seeing short statured people as just as capable as tall ones. I'm not saying it will be revolutionary just to cast a short man as a main character, but that it would help if Fox became more sensitive to the fact that short people ARE misrepresented in hollywood media.
This is just a thought that passed through my head one day, and I wanted to write it down SOMEWHERE. Tell me what you guys think.
Short people are in movies and television, but more likely than not they are represented as a freak, or misfit. Supergirl's "Winn" is a short-statured man who is highly disrespected by his peers despite being much smarter than his peers, enduring slanders from his boss such as being called an "elf" or "little man." While this isn't universal among all media, for example It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has Danny Devito play a person of management and authority despite his little height, it may still pose a problem in cinema if Fox miscasts Wolverine now that Hugh Jackman has left.
There is no doubt that Wolverine is the most popular X-Men character, and that many movie fans want to see him as a figure they can idolize. Someone bigger, stronger, tougher than themselves that they can aspire to be like. In the world of comics, we know Wolverine is a mere 5'3'', after all that's why he's WOLVERINE and not "Wolf." Despite his short height in the comics though, he's one of the most popular X-Men, but when it came to cast the short statured antihero on the big screen, Fox casts 6'1'' Hugh Jackman for the role. I'm not saying that this was exclusively because they wanted Wolverine to be tall, but I do believe it was an oversight, that they just figured "Hey Wolverine is important, so let's cast a guy who looks important" and thus the Tall Wolverine character was born.
I liked Hugh Jackman and don't blame or resent anything he or Fox did, but I do believe that now with the opportunities ahead, they should take the height of their actor into more consideration for the next Wolverine. Putting a more accurately statured Wolverine on the screen and showing what a badass or powerful man he is may help ease people into the progressive ideas of seeing short statured people as just as capable as tall ones. I'm not saying it will be revolutionary just to cast a short man as a main character, but that it would help if Fox became more sensitive to the fact that short people ARE misrepresented in hollywood media.
This is just a thought that passed through my head one day, and I wanted to write it down SOMEWHERE. Tell me what you guys think.