My Dinner with Hervé (2018) - scene comparisons

Comparisons between scenes from the movie My Dinner with Hervé (2018) with the real events from the life of Hervé Villechaize.
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[@Ep0978]

Those establishing shots to match the Fantasy Island sequence are really incredible, wow.

[@etienneamien]

Austen Cho exactly, they looked exactly the same besides the stabilisation, colour, exposure and sharpness improvement, they just reproduced perfectly the last scene where the windows open

[@johanlaurasia]

Don't think so the newer versions were 16x9 wide screen which was never shot for television in the 70's or early 80's. They were remade.

[@catoblepag]

@@johanlaurasia Nah, they clearly found the original footage and remastered it (in the aerial shots, of course): they just achieved 16:9 by zooming in, if you pause and compare you can see the picture is cut above and below the frame.

[@purefoldnz3070]

looks like they just restored the original film and rescanned it.

[@qwesence1]

Actually Peter Dinklage is an executive producer of this film. He fought to get this film made. He did a great job. Lou Diamond Phillips looked nothing like Ritchie Valens in La Bamba but did a great job. Boils down if can they pull it off

[@utubesigninsaredumb]

that's true,, u don't have to look exactly alike to get the point across. you are right , Lou Diamond phillips looke NOTHING like Ritchie valens!!!!!

[@sadjj]

Another Example:Rebecca Hall portrays Christine Chubbuck in the movie “Christine”

[@justinunion7586]

No this is textbook whitewashing for no reason.

[@FD_and_B]

@@justinunion7586 herve was a white Frenchman dumbass

[@deanframe9095]

From What I saw the replacement for Ricardo , …………😮….. Well he didn’t make those intense eyes or facial expressions.

[@InformantNet]

Peter Dinklage is a really wonderful actor, but casting him to portray Hervé Villechaize is ridiculous. It's like casting Saoirse Ronan to play Lucile Ball because they both have red hair.

[@jstarr7506]

Wrong! They are both nuggets! Can you really tell the difference between two nuggets?!? For real?!?

[@ztown2390]

Saoirse Ronan is blonde right?

[@InformantNet]

@@ztown2390 I think it's technically strawberry blonde. But that makes my point even better.

[@jstarr7506]

@@ztown2390 A blonde nugget?!? HAHAHAHAHA

[@dr.denggerous8314]

Cause Peter is the only midget actor known nowadays 😂😂😂

[@feleshajones2982]

This movie was such a great love letter and thank you to Hervé - I loved it so much!

[@ParzivalTheThird]

He looks nothing like him. He’s just short and a great actor so they just thought ‘good enough.’

[@AlfredHawthornBennyHill]

That's how Hollyweird does it. They always get a big name actor to portray another big name actor and the person chosen looks and sounds nothing like the person they are playing and that's what they think, "Eh good enough." They don't want someone who actually looks or sounds like them because they're nobody. They want big names so they can sell the movie. They think, piling make up on them and making them do an accent is good enough. That's why I never watch biographical movies about someone because they look and sound nothing like the person and it irritates me so much. Then you got the idiots who think the actor did a good job.

[@akhilnair1137]

He does sound like him though .

[@Nubleborsky]

@@AlfredHawthornBennyHill You do know Dinklage had a hand in writing and producing the film. It not just some Exec choice because hes the most well know dwarf in the industry. Hell he probably grew up with admiration for him, as an aspiring dwarf actor to see Herve on screen must have meant so much personally. I have no qualms about an actor not looking exactly like their real life counterpart as long as they can capture the essence of that persons mannerisms and behaviour.

[@arcqui4461]

For yoyr info peter is the executive productor so he decided to putt himself in this rolz

[@housemouse28]

Think about Lou Diamond Phillips in La Bamba. He looked nothing like Ritchie Valens but it did well.

[@suma4m]

They should have hired Daniel Craig to play Roger Moore playing Bond.

[@AnathexAdventurer]

But then, that would result in having two actors looking nothing like the people they are playing.

[@huntinglightning3507]

I think Peter Dinklage, the executive producer of this film, should've casted Sam Humphrey for the part of Hervé Villachaize. Just give him the wig and he'll look just like real Hervé.

[@princesspeachfan100]

I think Matthew Moy too, he looks similar as well. :)

[@shootybaking]

Andy Garcia is no Ricardo Montalban, but he tries his best. You can see it a little bit. This screams a labor of love that this even exists.

[@250rapid]

👍Andy Garcia was the perfect choice for this movie, he has an amazing resemblance to Ricardo Montalban, but Dinklage on the other hand, has a manly and completely different shape of face, compared to Hervé little boy's face.

[@Mr.cladmaniac]

Now Andy as Khan, what do you think?

[@ZukoHalliwell]

I must say, I look forward to seeing your _Bohemian Rhapsody_ scene comparisons, especially the Live Aid concert scene.

[@dimitreze]

I watched yesterday, there are many things to compare :) and I heard that they are going to release the full 20 minutes recreation of Live Aid

[@ReservoirPunk]

They couldn't have picked a worse actor for this role. Looks absolutely nothing like him.

[@casanova419]

Looks more like a little Moe Howard.

[@noticias6111]

2:52-3:05 is still difficult for me to swallow.

[@mrmusickhimself]

It is downright CRIMINAL for them NOT to have included Herve's role in Forbidden Zone and his romance with Susan Tyrell. He literally played the best short king EVER in that film, and was said to have been having an absolute blast in his only starring role -- yet they never acknowledged it here.

[@f4cphantom2]

Dinklage looks like the Emo version of Herve...

[@robrick9361]

Top : Mini Anthony Kiedis Bottom : Tiny Manny Pacquiao

[@dfelixrx7]

The new tattoo looks like the singer from RHCP. Just in a short version

[@soldierski1669]

Feel that getting this move done fits with the guys real struggle in life. I'm ok with it. BTW, forgot all about that D&D ad.

[@marycrossan9322]

Peter Dinklage was excellent in this movie ,I am old enough to remember Fantasy Island.Well done Mr Dinklage 🌼

[@jonkeiser6092]

I didn't know Tattoo was in a James Bond movie!

[@ryublueblanka]

I hate when these movies don't even try to get it exact.

[@ryublueblanka]

@Michael Ardenté the original would be the television show fantasy island...this is about his life and yeah I'd like to see them match it all the way and come as close as possible to the original that's what makes it fun. I mean that's what they are doing isn't it? Someone had to watch and replicate so why do it half assed? Or why not take full artistic license and just color the sky purple when it was blue and make Tatu 7 feet tall because his heart was that big and then have him saying "d boat d boat" instead of d plane I mean where do we draw the line

[@ryublueblanka]

@Michael Ardenté hahaha 👍

[@lovebassets868]

Movie was fantastic

[@erikavare3475]

Él avión jefe, él avión!! 👴👨 ✈ ⛅☁🌴🌅🌊🌋🍹

[@joegaragozzo1640]

Great movie . Sad story life.

[@evagabor5]

Excellent movie. And I fell in love with Jamie Dornan.

[@bourdie1979]

Peter dinklage is almost a foot taller and looks nothing like him.... still a fucking fantastic performance. Great movie

[@alexanderuiimair1904]

@@bennysum8252 bruh it was his idea

[@pablonunezmunoz9320]

Good film,i like the final theme Simphony sweet bitter.

[@Kilroyiii4644]

I'm sure Verne Troyer has a lot to talk about with Herve now.

[@arfansthename]

How poorly Roger Moore was portrayed.

[@locksand45]

Selena Gomez looks more like Herve than Dinklage but he gave à fantastic performance nonetheless

[@JustChadC]

Great fuckin’ movie

[@kevinnachtnuit5045]

What an incredible life....

[@JuanRodriguez-xl6mp]

this movie was surprisingly a little jem

[@valthenvega2434]

Andy Garcia can in fact look like Ricardo Montalban, but man… either he’s a little dry on his Rourke performance, or Ricardo had such a flexible demeanor. It’s like if he could speak with this face and his body just in that comparison alone

[@muddyboots4267]

I'm sure they could have got someone who looks more like him. Other little people must be thinking, why does he get all the parts?

[@sonicranger8481]

1:21 De plane! De plane!

[@baldemarherrera6600]

Lamentable todo lo sucedido, D.E.P.

[@LS-zq3td]

Peter is one of my favorite actors period. A man's man.

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

I am a woman

[@Android-16-js6dn3ml2z]

Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize he was in terrible pain around 49 years old because he had a genetic disease which made the internal organs lung, liver and kidneys grow out of normal and he with dwarf body could not stand such large organs pressing the ribcage bones then had tremendous difficulties (the medicines failed to cut the pain and shortness of breath) in breathing at night with it became desperate and shot and committed suicide at 50 years old but if he waited another 5 years a new titanium-pinned chest bone clearance surgery technique would come in that would lessen his breathing distress by 90% avoiding the terrible chest pain and shortness of breath and preventing him commit suicide because of breathlessness and terrible chest pain. Special surgery would improve lung breathing at night by allowing him to sleep at night without breath without feeling agonized by breathlessness. If he waited and had someone to defend him by preventing the con artists from stealing his money (preventing him from getting poor) from him, he would have money in the future to do the surgery that cost millions that health insurance didn't cover at the time. In fact who killed him was the thieves and con artists who exploited his naivete. They stole all his money and left him in misery without medical and hospital and surgical assistance. Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize ele sentia dores terríveis 🤕🤕🤕próximo dos 49 anos de idade porque tinha uma doença genética o que fazia os órgãos internos pulmão ,fígado e rins crescerem fora do normal e ele com corpo de anão não aguentava órgãos tão grandes pressionando os ossos da caixa torácica tendo então dificuldades enormes ( os medicamentos não conseguiram cortar a dor e a falta de ar ) em respirar a noite com isso ficou desesperado e deu um tiro e se⚔⚔🔫🔫⚰⚰ suicidou com 50 anos de idade mas se ele esperasse mais 5 anos chegaria uma nova técnica de cirurgia de afastamento de ossos do tórax com pinos de titânio que ia diminuir 90% o sofrimento dele na parte de respiração evitando a dor terrível na caixa torácica e a falta de ar e evitando que ele se suicidasse por causa da falta de ar e da dor terrível no tórax . A cirurgia especial melhoraria a respiração no pulmão durante a noite permitindo ele dormir a noite sem falta de ar sem sensação de agonia por falta de ar. Se ele esperasse e tivesse alguém que defendesse ele evitando que os vigaristas roubassem o dinheiro ( evitando que ele ficasse pobre ) dele assim ele teria dinheiro no futuro para fazer a cirurgia que custava milhões que os planos de saúde não cobriam na época. Na realidade quem matou ele foi os ladrões e vigaristas que exploravam a ingenuidade dele . Roubaram todo o dinheiro dele e deixaram ele na miséria sem auxílio médico e hospitalar e cirúrgico.

[@ejf0255]

The movie was amazing. I watch it Everytime I see it. LoL.

[@qwesence1]

It was

[@MrFrostien]

Its funny to say that Peter Dinklage is taller than Herve.

[@zoesdada8923]

Peter Dinklage has not only overcome his handicap he has made it a non issue.

[@tessdurberville711]

Dwarfism is not a handicap.

[@sharknado623]

@@tessdurberville711 it is

[@GCBlues45]

​@@sharknado623,to be technical. Its not,yes they have challenges & such. Its not a disability

[@josephschauster3689]

The Fantacy Island scene from the TV show to the movie about Verve looks similar!

[@ryandlion6961]

People were better actors back then

[@TherealBrendanHayesFilmMaker]

Ironically, he says the words "De plane de plane" far better in the reenactment of the advert rather than the reenactment of the opening to fantasy island.

[@jonkeiser1537]

Awesome.

[@TheAskTrixieChannel]

I guarantee no one cheered like that at the premiere of "Man With The Golden Gun". XD

[@dimitreze]

for sure also, he appeared throughout the whole movie why anyone would cheer at the very end? hahaha

[@drdrew3]

@@dimitreze that’s what people do at movie premieres. They cheer are the end because they are guests of the movie producers and actors. Some are investors in the film hoping a wild audience reaction will get the attention of press who were also invited. Hollywood premieres are different than Tuesday nights are the local cinema

[@joechill772]

"My dinner with herve" is great! I just watched it, i dont know much about the fantasy island but i knew ricardo montalbán, just enough to get interested in this movie and i can tell you that it was a great surprise! You get moved by herve, lets you see things a different way, 100% recomended movie!

[@tessdurberville711]

Is his suicide on film or referred to?

[@nourmourad4158]

I didn't watch the movie, but I have a question for anyone who did : Did they show Ricardo Montalbán as a villain ?! I hope not. Because I love him :)

[@dimitreze]

nope, he tried to help Herve when he was misbehaving on set

[@nourmourad4158]

That's great ! Thanks for that, and for the outstanding video as well :)

[@dimitreze]

you welcome :)

[@jblanch3]

@@dimitreze I'm not sure I'd agree with that. While I don't know the real-life circumstances of what happened, I thought Montalban was depicted as a manuipulative, passive-aggressive jerk. You can practically see the wheels in his head turn as he's trying to push Herve's buttons. The worst was their final scene together, when Herve arrives late to the set. Montalban's trying to talk him into getting to work, and says something like "how about it, Tattoo?" Rather than use his actual name. Just that one last jab to send Herve over the edge. I'm not defending Herve, he was a real ass who got a golden opportunity and threw it away. Great performances by both Dinklage and Garcia, BTW

[@brianpratts]

@@jblanch3 Doesn't every celebrity throws their life away bcs of depression and look at Elton John back then

[@tonyjimenez4768]

Monsieur le président espagnol Felipe Gonzalez 😂

[@kevindavis8320]

Loved the movie though

[@travisodermatt2472]

You gotta plug your nose when you do his voice.

[@anthonyrando6447]

My great aunt owned a ranch next door to herve s

[@siamfd202]

Better Fantasy Island Remake than Fantasy Isaland!

[@nicolasdarien2351]

Adoro los enanos musculosos y venosos

[@princesspeachfan100]

Yeah, of course these newer actors wil never be like the originals, but at least they somewhat look a bit similar and the shots were close, I do agree though they could of done a bit better with making Peter resemble Herve as Tatoo a bit better or get someone who resembles Herve a bit better (for this part at least), I think Mathew Moy would of been perfect as him, I think he resembles him a bit more and he does a voice really close to Herve’s Tatoo voice in 2 Broke girls as Han. :) (The character I think in a way from that is similar to Tatoo as well, missed opportunity, but Peter did great for this too. :) But yeah, biopics lately I do admit are pretty lazy with getting the right actors that actually look and sound like the person, (this, Judy 2019, (The actress somewhat looked the part, (I think they made her look a bit too old for Judy), but didn’t sound anything like Judy singing, (The actress playing young Judy was a bit off too and really didn’t resemble her as good either, Me And My Shadows 2001 one was alot better with the actresses resembling Judy), The new Elvis Biopic, Austin Butler really looks nothing like Elvis, but he dances and does his voice really well, etc. I think in the future though because of Deepfake, who knows, they might use it in ways for stuff like this for it to resemble the original actor with their faces and everything… (It would probably be better too…)

[@dreamlandnightmare]

They don't even have the same body type.

[@tammymartinez7488]

I see Dinklage I only see Tyrion!

[@Vometbomb]

Tammy Martinez I only see Michael Finch “feeling strong? Call me elf one more time!!!”

[@parati1309]

Peter would have been good for Charlie & Choccy Factory. The Indian midget in that would be a better tattoo.

[@RIP19851]

Rip

[@kittenlalisa]

lmao did they make a movie about this guy?

[@princesspeachfan100]

I guess Peter Dinkleburg on the plus side resembles Herve in certain scenes, BUT the problem is the voice is off, he’s a bit on the tall side, and they ESPECIALLY messed up on this Fantasy Island scene, he looked a lot like him until that scene, like someone completely different but not Herve, his hair and everything was all wrong… It’s weird because it’s like they changed directors or something as he resembled him until that scene.. Was it because they couldn’t get the rights to resemble him as Tatoo’s character or something? It odd to as the Mr. Rouke actor resembled the original really close… I refuse to watch this movie other than this scene because it feels to serious and everything and honestly I think half that stuff they predict and said Herve did off set and off screen is probably not even true, yeah, he shouldn’t of done what he did in the end, but other than that, from what I seen in interviews and footage and stuff he seemed sweet and funny, I ESPECIALLY loved that one song he did in 1980, it’s “Love The World”, and he seemed to be really enjoying himself in that video (it’s on here), but yeah, this side of him on TV and everything it could just of been acting, it could be not, we’ll never know the true story how he really was, but it’s kinda hard to see him from what those other negative sources say and this movie predicts and shows when there’s the actual good stuff of him from stuff like that, when there’s no actual proof of him actually being a different way and we don’t even know if it’s actually true or not, mostly these documentaries are fictional anyways portraying actors and are never really approved by the families of them because of how inaccurate, but it’s sad people will probably never see his sweet side from FI and other stuff besides that he was in and when he was on TV In footages because of those rumors and everything on the internet and stuff like this… As I said though we don’t really know… All of it could be true, all of it could not, but as I said 90% of the negative stuff of celebrities like this off screen are usually just made up for views to what Hollywood seen them as and not from the people that knew them… Blonde (that Marilyn Monroe movie was very inaccurate), the Freddy Mercury movie in places, and others, most of these documentaries make them out to be different anyways because it’s a movie…

[@parati1309]

How come he's the only dwarf that gets hired? Surely there's tons of them? They should have hired a midget for tatoo. He was more of a gnome than a dwarf.

[@dimitreze]

he tried to make the movie for years he produced the movie, I think he has the right to star in the movie although he doesn't look like Herve

[@Chayaen]

He fits not a bit.

[@jack2breeze]

Is this a TV movie?

[@PoissonVisageStudios]

Yeah. I watched it this morning. It was pretty good.

[@jasona9]

An HBO Movie. I saw it with HBO on Demand. It was a good movie.

[@josephschauster3689]

I watched it recently on HBO. He had a tough life. Film was alright.

[@TOM15555555]

Who Played Roger Moore Bond again a younger actor and Britt Ekland Mary Spy 🕵️‍♀️ Agent Goodnight 😴😘

[@robertoconnor9189]

What about Nick Nack Herve’ and the Man Who with The Golden Gun or he wasn’t in this movie HBO film 🎥 🎞️ 😮😂

[@ryanthomas1545]

Not chance of this remake even coming close to the magic of the original.. aside from the ridiculous distinct similarities of the actors ..this is the reason they don’t remake or sequel real tv other then comic books.. it just does not work.. Can you I imagine Hawaii Five-0 without Steve McGarrett or Gilligan‘s Island without the original cast .. or Columbo without Peter Falk…

[@neilisalive4892]

This feels like a parody lol

[@MenorZoiao]

Pessoal fala como se fosse facil arrumar um bom ator anão para colocar no filme... Pow me ajuda ai... People talk as if it`s easy to get a good dwarf actor.

[@exploradordelofantastico181]

Bad idea, Peter ... very bad.

[@stevenolivares9254]

The real hervé villechaize look like maui from moana 😂😂😂😂

[@actionstudios9502]

Does the film mostly fiction

[@JACKTHEDRAGONOKEEFFE]

Its too bad the Twin Towers didnt have a midget on the top shouting "THE PLANE! THE PLANE!

[@colderbeer]

What a train wreck.....

[@itsRabbitSeasonYo]

What in the blue fuck am i watching?

[@fernandorodriguesdeandrade8670]

Kkkkk😂😂😂😂

[@kaelanthefox6036]

The original guy looks weird

[@renehernandez2003]

I heard the tickets we're half off, the movie was kind of short

[@scottandrews62]

He doesnt look like him

[@PoissonVisageStudios]

No he doesn't, but there aren't many dwarf actors to chose from who can actually act and Peter Dinklage can act so well he's won about 3 Emmy's for it.

[@Lumibear.]

Neither does the other bloke, or sound like them.

[@pcmcguire18504]

True, but he nails the voice. And who else could they have possibly got to play the part? 😂

[@pothatuu]

@@pcmcguire18504 Gary Oldman with shoes on his knees...

[@jstarr7506]

+Scott Andrews It doesn't matter what nuggets look like! They're just nuggets after all!

[@Tony-to7cf]

Tric-Trac>Tyrion Lannister

[@alemdaimaginacao4666]

it was horrible this film only what it did was to denigrate the image of Hérve villechaise I didn’t like it Hérve was always a great person outside the set only knows who really knew

[@dimitreze]

e de onde tu conhecia ele fora do set?

[@pothatuu]

Peter Dinklage doesn't look or sound like Herve at all...

[@Superstardark]

Boy wtf

[@Sonofgrievous]

This movie looks a little stupid

[@tessdurberville711]

While I certainly agree that Mr.Dinklage does not resemble Monsieur Villechaize in any way, they do not even share the same form of dwarfism, Hollywood has a history of using the popular actor of the day to portray famous persons even when they are entirely unsuitable. I could make a list, but we would be here indefinitely. Thirty years ago this role would have been offered to David Rappaport who would have also been the wrong, and sadly ironic, choice. I am an admirer of Mr.Dinklage, but I will not see this film. I do not enjoy biopics.

[@emmastrange5557]

Peter Dinklage was the producer of the film, he wanted to play the part and without him the film wouldn't have been made at all. But let's say they were to get someone else for the part, what actor would you have picked?

[@TheFranc77]

I hope they pay a shit ton of money to Peter. Otherwise this makes no sense at all. Worst casting choice ever.

[@dimitreze]

he produced the movie, he cast himself

[@jstarr7506]

OMG I can't tell the difference between the two little nuggets!

[@itsRabbitSeasonYo]

You're saying that because they are black

[@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344]

Nuggets are another word for poop

[@youredefeeted8136]

Nope,no match at all,I want a remake.

[@Meg_Lovegood]

Too tall and White....

[@AussieRoberts]

outside of Game of Thrones Peter Dinklage is not a good actor

[@drevenypribor6144]

Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian

[@bigfrank1010]

Midgets scare me

[@mr.peanutbutter6969]

Peter Dinklage is a bad actor.

[@mr.peanutbutter6969]

Does Peter give you guys money every time you defend him?

[@Lumibear.]

I’m no fan but he’s done ok anytime I’ve seen him in anything

[@mr.peanutbutter6969]

I personally think he acts the same in every movie. He reminds me of Plank from Ed, Edd & Eddy.

[@BW-dg4gn]

Mr. Peanutbutter have you watched game of thrones

[@mr.peanutbutter6969]

@@BW-dg4gn no

[@kakameng2612]

This is awful Peter coulda used prosthetics and a tan terrible

[@trevdmoostoos]

Great show I think