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.
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.
The rest are: art direction, costumes, editing, sound and makeup.
I was so hoping that Sean Astin would get nominated. . . oh well. (It was a longshot.)
Complete list of all nominations is here.
Also, from the Science & Engineering Awards section:
To Stephen Regelous for the design and development of "Massive," the autonomous agent animation system used for the battle sequences in THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy.
Massive takes a new approach in simulating behaviors of large numbers of computer generated extras (a.k.a.) "agents." Each "agent" contains a primitive software "brain" used to develop behavioral rules simulating a wide range of behaviors. In THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy,over 200,000 agents were controlled in several scenes.
Go Massive! I have the hugest crush on it.
I'm really delighted Johnny Depp got a nom for PotC, but come on! No acting for RotK?
I know! Sean or Billy -- at least!
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.
#4 is important to me because
it's such a huge moment for Sam. I suppose he gets enough big moments in the movie as it is, but in a way, that moment is the biggest, IMHO. "The Choices of Master Samwise." It's such a struggle for him to decide the right thing to do. And it would show more clearly that Sam is a ringbearer too, which otherwise I don't think you really get from the movie.
As for the last item on the list,
the reason I want more time spent on it is that I've talked to enough people now who, not having read the book, were totally confused as to why Frodo had to leave Middle-Earth. I wouldn't want much more than is already there--when I first saw it, I thought it was just about perfect--but I would like to see a little more clearly that Frodo really cannot live in the Shire any longer.
What scenes would you all like to see in the EE?
(And I'm sad about no Best Actor nom for Sean Astin, but woohoo! for the rest!)
