Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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 mean, cave, troll-like John Matuzak, lots of hollering and rushing about, right?
My Goonies moment in RotK didn't have Sean Astin in it, oddly. I just though the main orc leader (with the mushed up face) on the Pelennor Fields looked just like Matuzak's Sloth.
Billy has a cherubic face, but his hair doesn't support it, and he can act right past it.
And sing. If that's something he can pull out on stage (as opposed to being a more studied, choir-type singer), he should look to Hugh Jackman as an example of how to keep from ever getting type-cast.
With luck, that means there's more to be put in there in the extendo-return. If the extendo edition is really going to be 4:15, I worry -- I can think of a lot of footage, probably more than 45 minutes, that needs to be shoehorned in!
Scenes I want to see included, off the top of my head:
Saruman's death
The Mouth of Sauron
Gandalf vs. the Witchking
The moment where we see Sam decide to take the Ring
Aragorn looks into the Palantir
We see how the Palantir affected Denethor
Merry swearing fealty to Theoden
The Houses of Healing
Eomer finding Theoden and Eowyn on the Pelennor
More time with sick Frodo in the Shire
I only know of a few scenes that will be in the EE. I'm probably most excited about the Mouth of Sauron . And I really hope we get to see that moment from the trailer with Eomer cradling someone's body (Theoden's?) on the battlefield . Gives me shivers.
Crazy, the lot of you. Frodo & Sam walking is the good stuff.
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I love your list, Kate, but I don't think #4 is going to show up, since they decided to go a completely different route for the theatrical release, keeping everything Frodo-centric, as usual. What I'd love to see is Frodo and Sam being shanghaied by Orcs--this could be intercut nicely with the Houses of Healing stuff, since it would fit with the chronology.
Hey, Dom's got his skillz in order. I saw him in "Hostile Waters" (TV movie about the Russian sub what sunk off the East coast in the late 80's), and thought he did a decent job of it. Not a huge role, but substantial enough. And this was pre-LotR.
I saw him in "Hostile Waters" (TV movie about the Russian sub what sunk off the East coast in the late 80's),
I own this. I think it may have been viewed at the F2F, on mute, FF'd.
Kate, two on your list were actually used in the recent Bio channel special (shown first on A&E's Breakfast with the Arts).
Merry swearing fealty to Theoden and Eomer cradling someone on the Pelennor.
I slo-mo-ed that clip, and from the fact the hair of the cradled person was very blonde and wavy, I'm guessing Eowyn. Theoden's was straighter, darker., shorter. 'Course you realize that's just a wish and a wank, right?
I find #4 on your list least important on mine. And I really, really don't want the last item on your list. I think the way it was done was visceral and bleak and quite affecting enough. More would blunt it, I think.
But I could be wrong.
Whoo hoo 11 Nominations for RotK!
Best picture, best director, best score, best song, best adapted screenplay, visual effects -- must find the rest.
RotK Oscar noms:
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The rest are: art direction, costumes, editing, sound and makeup.