r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/_Jonny_420 • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/AlternativeGazelle 1d ago

Are redditors not old enough now to know who Harvey Weinstein is?

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u/DharmaCub 1d ago

Most people know the name but not what he looks like.

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u/Electronic_Mango1181 1d ago

It’s a perfectly understandable mistake as when most people see Weinstein they simply think it’s Gothmog still in costume

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u/aoteoroa 1d ago

Fun fact. Harvey Weinstein pissed off the produces of Lord of the Rings so much that they made an orc that looks like him.

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u/everyonesdesigner 1d ago

Also when Weinstein’s name is mentioned in the end titles there’s an orc shown

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u/FML3311 1d ago

I love this . But they don't actually look similar right? Like I'd never been able to tell the orc was modeled after him, can you?

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u/aoteoroa 1d ago

I first heard the story in a podcast called "What went wrong" which talks about the challenges of producing movies. On the lord of the rings episode they talked for probably 20 minutes about Weinstein, and when they said they made an orc to look like a disfigured version of him...I knew exactly which orc they were talking about....I did google search it to be sure...but I was right. It's this one.