My co-worker returned my DVD of RotK just now, and had some questions.
"Why did that little guy with the curly hair and blue eyes have to get on the boat?"
"Wasn't that dark-haired girl supposed to be dead?"
"Now, that creepy little jerk, he fell into the volcano with the ring and died, right?"
She really got none of the names, even after seeing all three films, but she did love the scenery, the battles, "the animals" (I'm guessing she meant the Mumakil here), and "that creepy little jerk" (Gollum). As a complete newbie and non-fantasy-geek, she's probably the epitome of the filmgoer that the studio was afraid "wouldn't get it," but she loved the series nonetheless, and wants to spend a weekend doing a marathon viewing of all three in a row when she has some time to herself.
"Why did that little guy with the curly hair and blue eyes have to get on the boat?"
Oh deer loward. I'm actually thinking about using this as a tagline. Somebody stop me.
That was what book-Denethor had, above all: dignity.
Yes. Still didn't much like Denethor in the book, but HATED him in the movie. But, loved his eldest son so much more in the movie, that perhaps it evens out.
So, I may be really behind on this, but I just saw
The Bourne Supremacy
this weekend. Did anyone else notice Eomer (Karl Urban) doing a wonderful job as
the bad guy
?
Of course I noticed! I noticed the lack of funny hair and armoured shoulders! And the lack of an expression other than pissy. Sigh. I bet he has a nice smile, but I wouldn't know. I've never seen it.
Beverly, you need DVD extras. There are interviews. You even get to see people without their funny wigs on.
"Why did that little guy with the curly hair and blue eyes have to get on the boat?"
To be fair, the movie didn't do all that good a job with explaining why Frodo went. He sort of had some PTSD, and some arthritis, but mostly it was "Gandalf said so". I wish it would make clearer how hard it is for Frodo to live in the world he helped save; for one thing, it would make that Galadriel line in TTT ("The quest will take his life") actually true.
If you are reluctant to buy the EEs -- you can certainly netflix the two extra discs.
I have the EEs, and I've seen Urban smile, and he is definitely yummy. I just haven't seen him play a character with any lightness in him, and I'd like to.
It's because we're missing the Scouring! I tell ya'.
I loved book!Denethor, so I was deeply and fundamentally annoyed by movie!Denethor. Didn't stop me from making him my wallpaper, though.
It didn't help that the actor was made up and behaved to suggest the stereotypical movie villain, a la Viggo from Ghostbusters 2. If you'd stood him next to Lee's Saruman, would anyone new to the story have picked Denethor as the good guy?
I completely did not remember that his death isn't even in the book Fellowship. It's dispensed with in about two lines at the beginning of TTT.
I think it was a bit more than two lines. I'll have to dig out the text when I get home, but I do know there was the description of him when Aragorn came upon him, the conversation between Aragorn and Boromir, and heck, they even had a long song that Aragorn and Legolas sang as they sent him down the Anduin in the eleven boat.
Plus, there was some flashback material when we got Merry's perspective of what happened in a later chapter.
