I don't think I minded Arwen quite so much at the time, but in retrospect I think "THIS is who Jackson devoted 20 minutes of loving slow motion close-ups to when he couldn't be bothered to film the most kickass bit of dialogue in the whole trilogy?!?"
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 05, 2009 6:13:49 pm PDT #2896 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sean K - Jul 05, 2009 6:23:10 pm PDT #2897 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
t sits with Matt
Fay - Jul 05, 2009 8:09:15 pm PDT #2898 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Okay - which is the most kickass bit of dialogue in the whole trilogy?
t /sheepish
erikaj - Jul 05, 2009 8:12:51 pm PDT #2899 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know, either. I'm not much of a Tolkienist...
DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 8:19:42 pm PDT #2900 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's Eowyn's speech to the Witch King, I think.
DavidS - Jul 05, 2009 8:37:28 pm PDT #2901 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Incidentally, Emmett and I were playing the LoTR version of Stratego tonight. I was doing pretty well until I foolishly attacked a Stronghold (Bomb) with my Aragorn (a 9) without testing it with a Soldier of Gondor.
Sean K - Jul 05, 2009 9:50:05 pm PDT #2902 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's Eowyn's speech to the Witch King, I think.
It's a whole dialog exchange, really. And Jackson cuts it down to like two lines, that lack all the punch of Tolkien's original. If I wasn't so tired at the moment, I could probably quote the whole scene from memory.
Jessica - Jul 06, 2009 4:15:01 am PDT #2903 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If I wasn't so tired at the moment, I could probably quote the whole scene from memory.
I know you've done it before - I'll Nilly it as soon as the coffee starts working.
[eta: Hec quotes it here: DavidS "LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'"." Aug 16, 2004 9:57:02 am PDT
Quoting someone else, I think, but that post was on the first page of resultsfor "begone deathless"]
Connie Neil - Jul 06, 2009 6:37:42 am PDT #2904 of 30000
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Eowyn! Who does not cringe in front of the Witch King but is willing to die to defend Theoden and who makes the Witch King hesitate as she stares him down!
Stupid hobbit-footed directors.
I may be biased.
Sean K - Jul 06, 2009 8:10:13 am PDT #2905 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
In particular, there's a musicality to the exchange that is part of what gives the whole scene its power. (I have no idea what meter this is in, but I'm sure it's in something specific):
"Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! leave the dead in peace!"
"Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."
"Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may."
"Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me."
"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."