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.
Book stuff doesn't need to be whitefonted, though, right? Just film stuff? Visuals, changes, and the like?
I can never remember what's whitefonted and what's not. I know I personally started whitefonting book stuff out of a desire to not spoil Aimee on the best parts. That issue will be over soon and I (who is probably the last book-whitefonty holdout) will stop. I promise. I know we mostly have no sympathy for non-booky people for obvious reasons.
Anyhoo -- Sean -- I'm not sure -- are you saying the bruise would or wouldn't look like a scar?
Well, it shouldn't look like a scar. Mine didn't. Could have just been inaccurate makeup job.
I should see the movie again to make a more informed thought on what that scar is supposed to be. Are we sure it's not just a wonky shadow?
That beaning of Pippin by the apple (and Pippin's look skyward) is nicely echoed at the end of the TTTEE, when he first discovers the apple floating in the water at Isengard, and looks skyward again.
ETA: hee! X-post with ita.
I have such hard time with the end of TTT EE and the start of RotK, as one can tell.
Hey -- didn't Pippin [whitefont]
Yes, he did. You weren't imagining it. (Although I thought that was in the TTT EE, for the Flotsam and Jetsam sequence, or am I now putting it in the wrong place?)
Ah! So ita's not just conjuring that. I missed it, myself.
Sean, your memory's just as likely to be any good as mine. Surely by now you know I pull stuff out of my hindparts as often as not.
I'm still whitefonting for the greater glee and screaming. I guess, at least, through the weekend, because it's hard to get around to seeing a movie till you've had a weekend.
Nutty, how were you defining sword master above? In the cinema industry, or within a particular martial art?
In the cinema industry, it's more or less true. Bob freakin' Anderson does everything.
Nutty, how were you defining sword master above? In the cinema industry, or within a particular martial art?
I was basically pulling a definition out of my butt, with exaggeration on top. I'm sure there actually are other swordmasters, but he's the only one I've ever heard of in the movies, and whenever a DVD talks about swords, sooner or later he comes up in the conversation. Usually sooner.
The joke is, he is like 80 years old. And while I'm sure he can still kill me dead, it amuses me to think of an 80 year old guy teaching whippersnappers how to strike with deadly accuracy and speed.
What's the technical definition of sword master?
edit: Ah, never mind.
it amuses me to think of an 80 year old guy teaching whippersnappers how to strike with deadly accuracy and speed
What? You didn't see
The Karate Kid?
Actually in Hollywood I bet it's like prop master -- the dude in charge of the swords and their handling. I know the gun guy is usually called the firearms master, or something like.
