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.
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Aims - Sep 19, 2006 1:34:50 pm PDT #4414 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ailleann - Sep 19, 2006 2:30:04 pm PDT #4415 of 10001
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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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 19, 2006 2:34:03 pm PDT #4416 of 10001
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BROKE HIS BACK?!?
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2006 2:34:30 pm PDT #4417 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He broke his back before the movie. It must have been another injury.
Ailleann - Sep 19, 2006 2:45:11 pm PDT #4418 of 10001
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I thought that was the phrase they used, but now I feel this need to pull out the DVDs... sigh...
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2006 2:46:26 pm PDT #4419 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's only broken his back once, and it was definitely before the movies filmed.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2006 2:52:34 pm PDT #4420 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Ailleann - Sep 19, 2006 2:55:01 pm PDT #4421 of 10001
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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...
Aims - Sep 19, 2006 3:05:53 pm PDT #4422 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok. So why then did they CGI it in so awkwardly?
Ailleann - Sep 19, 2006 3:07:52 pm PDT #4423 of 10001
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I always thought it's cause pixel!Legolas is mounting the horse with the wrong hand. A real person doing that would probably break something in his arm.