I refused to watch Shallow Hal, and I'll double down on it now. I'm amazed nobody has done a review/deep dive on the BTS stuff never mind the movie. I don't like Gwyneth Paltrow but I feel sorry for her, and I thought this movie gave her an ED so I looked it up.
It didn't, apparently (I disagree, but bear with me). It did give her body double one, however.
I'm not shocked she had a body double on top of having a fat suit. The sick part is, the double still needed another suit to make her look saggier. So on top of them focusing on her flaws, they made her look fatter. They needed her to be saggy. People made her life hell afterwards, she was mailed diet pills and accused of glorifying obesity. So she of course ended up with a disorder on top of having failed gastric surgery that made it too hard to eat.
Neither woman would watch this again, but it's full of discriminatory bullshit. When Hollywood does fat/ugly people, it's always parody. It's all braces and thick-rimmed glasses, skin disorders, blemishes, everything Hollywood fears having. Nobody goes out of their way to look that ugly. There was a whole movement against villains with facial scars negatively impacting on people with facial scars. They've studied how that stuff affects their lives and it's real. So asking Hollywood to stop picking on these people is difficult. Disabled people also get stiffed.
A kid on Degrassi who was supposed to be chubby needed padding to look tubby so you could justify him having an ED. The kid grew up to be very tall and thin, it wasn't even really baby fat, it was just gross he wasn't chubby enough. So if you have to make a chubby person look comically fat, then at least acknowledge that the fat person you think you're portraying doesn't actually exist. I've had to put up with people commenting on my body most of my life. I only wish people would just not say anything about anyone, I was going to put this on my main blog but it's a media observation. Sincerely, so much of the noise we hear is people not learning when to keep their mouth shut about appearances. Movies that tried to sell us the same sentiment as Shallow Hal completely failed to, they're more offensive now than ever, you'd rather they admit they were mocking the premise than trying to give a sincere message about loving fat people for who they are. Nobody looks funny in a fat suit, I hate watching movies where people where ageing makeup or prosthetics to look ugly for comic reasons, or any reason, it's tasteless to me and people pretending to be an old is ageist within itself. But that was the 90s, we could laugh at these things and people weren't allowed to be offended.
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