Buffy ,'Potential'
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Thirding what ita said.
I think wit is a subset of humor. Humor includes wit, but wit does not include all of humor.
But this, too. Maybe because of phrases like "keeping your wits about you," I usually associate wit with smart humor -- definitely a Gilmore Girls type of thing. Whereas broader humor includes things like Benny Hill and pretty much anything starring Tom Green. Not witty at all, but funny (in a completely subjective way).
So, Joe and I rewatched Fellowship and Two Towers over the weekend.
I still have an issue with the way OB gets on the horse behind Gimli. I has to be a CGI fuck up.
IIRC from some DVD extra or another, that scene is a victim of injury. They had tried the scene, but it didn't look right, so they were going to come back and do it, but then he broke his back and they didn't get to come back to it. So they had to CGI it instead.
BROKE HIS BACK?!?
He broke his back before the movie. It must have been another injury.
I thought that was the phrase they used, but now I feel this need to pull out the DVDs... sigh...
He's only broken his back once, and it was definitely before the movies filmed.
Aha. Found this:
The Warg scene that includes the infamous shot of Legolas leaping onto the horse, was filmed on the same day that Orlando fell off his horse and cracked his rib. He landed on a rock and Gimli's scale double (Brett) fell on top of him. So they couldn't film Orlando actually jumping onto his saddle, because of the injury. Later in post production, about six months before the release of TTT, Orlando had grown a beard, for the filming of Ned Kelly. He wasn't permitted to shave, which meant he couldn't do the pickups for this scene in TTT, so they created a CG Legolas to do the actual springing onto the horse.
That's right, I remember now. I was conflating the two injuries in my head.
Clearly this means I need to revisit the trilogy.... the things I do in the name of history...
Ok. So why then did they CGI it in so awkwardly?