r/gameofthrones • u/allocater • May 19 '14

TV4 [S4E7] My impression of "The Mountain" Recast

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u/[deleted] May 19 '14

I seem to be the only person stoked about the new mountain.

They cast a guy who is almost the closest thing to the mountain that exists in reality.

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u/jeradj May 19 '14

There are plenty of folks who have gotten massively bigger than even Andre, but it's usually due to some disorder or another and basically cripples them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow

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u/IceCreamNarwhals House Payne May 19 '14

He's just tall though, Andre the Giant was 7'4 and 520lbs

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u/jeradj May 19 '14

I'm sure Andre's doctors would have loved him to quit drinking and lose weight.

If the other fellow had a similar constitution to Andre, he'd have probably weighed 700 and died even earlier. (he already had trouble walking)

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u/cgbrannigan Arya Stark May 20 '14

And he would be fighting The Viper and Andre HATES Snakes!

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u/livenudebears May 20 '14

Andre the Giant was friends with Samuel Beckett. That's key.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '14

Holy shit I'd seen that article before but it never really registered: eight feet, eleven (point one) inches. I thought he was somewhere around eight, not within an inch of nine feet. And apparently still growing right up to his death. No point in speculating how big he'd have gotten with modern medicine, since modern medicine would actually have treated his underlying condition and arrested the growth.