Or a little dude to make a normal dude look big like in LotR.

See: Hagrid's behind-the-scenes.

VFX artists react look at these things all the time:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wf8NgICk3ng

Some really cool 90s tricks with forced perspective.

This is one of the reasons why I love love love cinema history. The lengths that the crew and creative team went to in order to make an illusion work is just mind-boggling. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was watch the DVD extras about Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Labyrinth, all that.

One of my favorite forced perspective tricks ever was Darby O'Gill and the Little People. That old Irishman playing a fiddle above a cavern full of leprechauns, galloping around a pile of ancient treasure on tiny horses, and then rushing off to hunt foxes through a magical crack in the wall?

Literally, one of the most incredible feats of practical film illusion ever concocted, right up there with the velociraptors of Jurassic Park and the chest-burster from Alien.

I sort of think everyone should have a chance to play with an Ames Room at least once in their life.

Yep, lots of clever camera tricks to accomplish making the hobbits in LoTR look much smaller than their fellow actors.

https://youtu.be/MACsFQRQufc?t=14

One time, Arnold and Andre went out for lunch.

When the check came, both men reached for it. Andre decided the issue by picking Arnold up and carrying him away.

Holy shit that’s Wilt Chamberlain??

Andre had a lot of joint problems related to his gigantism, as well as physical injuries from his wrestling career. He self-medicated with alcohol, and became addicted to it.

It was really sad.

Or the time he let out a fart for, like, 3 minutes straight and someone asked "Andre, are you okay?" to which he replied "I am now, boss."

And covered him up with a piano blanket!

Iirc it takes like 50+ cans of beer to get him drunk

How does his parents knew he was going to be giant as a baby? Or it was just luck that he was named Andre the Giant, and grew up to be giant?

Mandy (Inigo) is 6 foot (1.83m), Wallace (Vizzini) is 5 foot 2 inches (1.57m)

He was billed at 7'4, but was really around 7'0-7'1. Same height as Shaq.

They did it by hand. Frame by frame.

I remember watching Snow White as a kid and wtf'ing at those ripples.

I'm pretty sure I also wondered "holy crap is that guy really that big?" When I watched it

I hope he gets treated well and is respected.

I can’t imagine it feels good to only ever be called on to play monsters.

He's built different... like, incorrectly.

they found some very small old people.

He's 7ft tall. Even being 6'3, my reaction to a 7ft tall person is, "Holy shit, that's one tall dude."

Forced perspective is how they made the hobbits look so small in LOTR.

Yeah and also like, they're your kids. If you want them to watch older media, then show them older media. How is it their fault they have never seen something they don't know about?

Lmao these idiot children don't understand the intricacies of filmmaking. Bet they don't know shit about 3-point lighting and ADR either. Stupid kids need to spend less time on the tick tocks and more time studying cinema!

But this particular example is far from a cooked brain situation. I had the same questions when I was a kid about how they make cartoons and movies. There are many practical and in camera effects that were used to make people bigger or smaller and are very interesting to learn about. Nothing cooked about it.

Arnold is 6'2" and was ~250 pounds in his peak body building days. Andre was 7'4" and ~500 pounds. There were lots of huge dudes at the time but Andre really was kind of in a league of his own.

Shorter lifespans from poor blood flow and other problems that arise from it.