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.
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.)
I saw this morning on CNN that RotK won the Chicago Critics film of the year award. I also saw that there are 45 members of the Chicago Film Critics Assoc. Aren't there only two major papers in Chicago?? Seems like a lot of critics.
they tried out having Frodo partway-transformed-to-Gollum makeup.
And he looked like he
really
enjoyed those teeth. I mean, no less so than the airbrush they used to make him veiny and gross, but he was showing off the teeth with great elan.
Agreed that it wouldn't really work in the movie. There is such a thing as too much explicitness, and I'm glad Jackson can sometimes pull back on the reins.
What is Elijah wearing?
I think he did that print himself. . . .at least it's not that pattern on pattern thing he had on in the pictures from Japan.
(Also, ear-wormed with "Into the West" . . . luckily it doesn't make me cry.)
I should say that pattern on pattern thing he was wearing in other pictures from the Japanese RotK premiere I've seen.
Aren't there only two major papers in Chicago?? Seems like a lot of critics.
Two major dailies. Lots of weeklies in both the city and suburbs, as well as critics for most of the local TV and radio stations, a few magazines, and don't forget that there are still quite a few national magazines that are headquartered here.
Looking for a Gollum photo to use on a website mockup...found this instead.
My first thought upon seeing that was "Damn! Fiona Apple's skin is reeeally bad up close."
Apparently, they has a ceremony at the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo where they reinacted the scene at Mount Doom.
And this is the crazy pattern on pattern he was wearing before.
But he still has all his fingers.
