Tom, I would pay CASH MONEY to see this version of the movie. Belly-dancing, funny hand-motions, sung-flirting and all.
But we need to have Thora Birch and Scarlett Johanssen dancing in their sleepover wear while watching it on TV.
Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me? Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.
'The Killer In Me'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".
A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 20, 2004 6:20:02 pm PST #1466 of 3902
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nutty - Jan 21, 2004 6:00:41 am PST #1467 of 3902
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
For me, it was hope taking wing.
Word. Even though it was a sequence that spanned day and night (but didn't need to) and had a lot more beacons than the book. It seemed like it was Bangladesh signalling Iraq to come to the rescue, not two kingdoms that are kissing up against each other's borders. I guess I can forgive that illogic, since it is just as cool to see the beacons glowing alone in the night as it is suddenly to pick them out of the brightness of day.
Volans - Jan 21, 2004 3:49:35 pm PST #1468 of 3902
move out and draw fire
During my first viewing, all I could think during that scene was "That must be the crappiest job in the world." Luckily I found that I could appreciate it more on the second viewing.
Ouise is me exactly!
and had a lot more beacons than the book.
Actually I looked this up (initally because of the apparent time-zone change, or maybe crossing the terminator of Middle-Earth) and Tolkein mapped out quite a few beacons down the spine of the mountains. I haven't been back to count the number of beacons shown, but I bet it's close.
sumi - Jan 22, 2004 9:25:27 am PST #1469 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
Weren't there beacons to the south as well as to the north (in the book)?
Beverly - Jan 22, 2004 2:28:39 pm PST #1470 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
When Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Eomer and the standard bearer ride up to the Black Gate, for just a second you can clearly see Pippin's scale double's face. I guess they figured since she was wearing a helmet no one would notice.
Aims - Jan 22, 2004 2:36:34 pm PST #1471 of 3902
Shit's all sorts of different now.
In watching various FYC ads on tv, something occured to me.
When Aragorn is making his "...come together in freedom..." speech, he looks really constipated.
Volans - Jan 22, 2004 3:29:48 pm PST #1472 of 3902
move out and draw fire
Looking for a Gollum photo to use on a website mockup...found this instead.
Micole - Jan 22, 2004 7:46:23 pm PST #1473 of 3902
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
At one point, when Frodo is confronting Faramir in the cave in The Two Towers, they tried out having Frodo partway-transformed-to-Gollum makeup. It's not in the extended edition movie body, but it is in one of the commentaries.
Connie Neil - Jan 22, 2004 7:51:24 pm PST #1474 of 3902
brillig
I'm so glad they skipped the makeup on that scene. I hated the Morphing!Bilbo in Rivendell. Not everything has to physically expressed. If you've got good actors, they can show enough mental/spiritual deterioration to get the point across. I would trust Sir Ian Holm to look nearly demonically possessed.
Jeff Mejia - Jan 23, 2004 4:15:49 am PST #1475 of 3902
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
I'm so glad they skipped the makeup on that scene. I hated the Morphing!Bilbo in Rivendell. Not everything has to physically expressed. If you've got good actors, they can show enough mental/spiritual deterioration to get the point across. I would trust Sir Ian Holm to look nearly demonically possessed.
The thing of it is, in the book, they did have Bilbo appear (to Frodo) to change. I thought the makeup in the scene was an effective echo of what Frodo was experiencing.
(They had a similar scene in Return where Frodo hallucinated Sam morphing into an orc, in the tower of Cirith Ungol, when Sam was holding the ring and offering to hold it for Frodo for a little while. This time, in the movie, they just went into the slo-mo, auditory hallucination mode.)