Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
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.
Try the Price of Milk -- I'm trying to remember whether he smiles in particular but it is a light movie and he doesn't play the heavy.
they even had a long song that Aragorn and Legolas sang as they sent him down the Anduin in the eleven boat.
Hee. Yes, the extemporaneous singing. And then Gimli's all "um, dude, no. Sorry."