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.
Buffy: Where are the burgers? Riley: Yeah man, I'm starving. Cow me. Xander: I'd love to make with the moo but the fire's not cooperating.
'Lessons'
LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".
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.
Beverly - Aug 17, 2004 10:26:56 am PDT #2944 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Liese S. - Aug 17, 2004 10:36:31 am PDT #2945 of 3902
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2004 10:49:51 am PDT #2946 of 3902
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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?
Jeff Mejia - Aug 17, 2004 11:00:29 am PDT #2947 of 3902
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
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.
sumi - Aug 17, 2004 11:02:48 am PDT #2948 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Katie M - Aug 17, 2004 11:10:46 am PDT #2949 of 3902
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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."
Beverly - Aug 17, 2004 11:26:35 am PDT #2950 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Try the Price of Milk
On the queue. Thanks!
sumi - Aug 17, 2004 11:33:04 am PDT #2951 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!
It's an odd little film -- and you may recognize some other actors from LotR in it -- besides Karl.
Scrappy - Aug 17, 2004 11:50:38 am PDT #2952 of 3902
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I wish it would make clearer how hard it is for Frodo to live in the world he helped save
We went with a non-book reader, who didn't really like the first movie, wouldn't see the second in the theater and was won over by watching it on video. I was curious and asked what she to hought happened to Frodo and she looked ta me like I was kidding and said "He had seen too much to stay happy with the Hobbits so he went off to some heaven-like place." So she got it... and I didn't think she would.
Beverly - Aug 17, 2004 11:59:29 am PDT #2953 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm extremely aware of set decor in movies--I'll rewatch a movie just because I like the interior of the house or apartment--so perhaps my reaction wasn't "average". But I thought Jackson was marvelously subtle but also vividly illustrative in making Bag End so warm and cozy, cluttered and welcoming in the yellow glow of candle and firelight in FoTR, and then showing the same interior stripped, cold, blue with the lack of warmth and light at the end of RotK. I find it difficult to comprehend that anyone who'd seen both FotR and RotK could not be struck by the difference, and understand from that how deeply Frodo had been damaged, and why he couldn't adapt to life in the Shire.