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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
You do realize that in order to do this Bloom spent the better part of a day or two hanging from ropes on walls and doing some very strenuous and athletic things so the filmmakers could get what they wanted? I do not imagine that a emaciated 85 pound actor could perform the various strenuous and athletic antics necessary to capture the movements of Gollum.
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I've seen an actor who is also an accomplished gymnast do a fascinating Gollem on stage--no it wasn't that dreadful musical but a play based on The Hobbit some years prior to the movies coming out. He was taller than I would have imagined Gollem, but his movements were fascinating, credible, utterly convincing. I can also think of several dancers, also trained actors, who could do it.
It would have been more respectful of Tolkien's mythology, I think, to have a human actor portray Gollem and not have this tortured soul depicted like a cartoon character. Not that I'm against cartoons by any means, but it lessened the ethical issue by distancing the character from Frodo and the others.