[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]Paste42 wrote:
Dude the whole movie was a stereotypical joke. X asked for an example of someone huge not portrayed as a muscle head. You’re looking too much into it.[/quote]
I think you missed X’s point entirely. The whole joke in Harold and Kumar revolved around that guys size. So no, it’s actually not an example of a big guy who’s size has nothing to do with the role.[/quote]
Any role that is filled with a huge guy will have to be[/quote] Why? Those of us who aren’t bouncers didn’t get our jobs because of our size and we don’t have to act tough all day long or something. I don’t get it, does every movie character who doesn’t look like a stickman be some kind of stereotype? [quote] based on the guy’s size. It’s like if bodybuilders were walking around in every film and no one ever mentions it, how retarded would that be? You know people look at huge guys and think “Holy shit, that guy is huge!”[/quote] I disagree… Before I knew about training and had some idea of what big people look like and what the different muscles were, I hardly noticed that someone was huge compared to the others… No joke. It just didn’t register, or at least not fully. Regular people notice leanness more than anything else… A hint of abs/bis/chest = “buff”.
Those who do realize that somebody is huge or just larger than average apparently run off to their computers, log into youtube and then make “STEROIDZZZZ!!!” comments. [/quote]
I get comments on my size every day. Usually multiple times a day. The first thing EVERYONE comments on when they meet me is my size. It happened pretty frequently when I was tall and lanky, now it happens twice as much. IMO, size rarely ever goes unnoticed.
[quote]I just think it would be nice if people got used to seeing larger guys every now and again (and gals, why not… Not talking about Miss. BB Olympia or anything, but you rarely get actresses with well-trained bodies… Many of those who do train to some degree rarely look like our Vixens here, often just get so lean that they look like fucking aliens… Look at some shots of Madonna, though I guess they may have been altered. There’s one where her arms show more veins than those of MacGrath, and you can tell she’s mostly dead-skinny with a hint of muscle).
Making the larger look “socially acceptable” (i.e. people consider it normal that there are a bunch of others around who train seriously and are otherwise like everyone else) is only possible through the media… And imo key to doing away with a lot of stereotypes and prejudice… Maybe even eventually making health insurance companies consider us as a sub-group so we don’t fall under the “fat rules” and have to pay extra… Co-workers and bosses may become more accepting when it comes to food at the job or whatever.
All because it would no longer be considered “strange” to be/want to be larger.[/quote]
The problem is there are not very many big guys. If big guys were a part of everyone’s everyday life I’m sure they’d get less comments and get more movie roles, because it would be more “normal”
[quote]Hey, not just bodybuilders, just bigger guys in general… And why should attention be drawn to their size all the time? They can wear regular baggy clothes and whatnot and just… Be there and play regular people, why the hell not?
If it’s some character in a show who shows up repeatedly or even a main char, then of course you could have a scene of him training or maybe him talking to somebody else about training a little, maybe eat more often/more than the other characters and sort of hint at that, but why should he automatically get some macho-role?
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Blame the writers? If the characters aren’t training in the script they’re not training in the movie.
Vin Diesel played a stockbroker in Boiler Room with no mention of his size - is that the kind of roles you want more of?
