Womack ,'The Message'
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.
I might be making this up, but I think they brushed up the Legolas mounting the horse scene for the TTT EE version. I *hated* it when I saw it the theater (and it gave me "oh god this is going to look fake" fear that lasted through the end of RotK) but it looks better to me somehow on the EE. (It's not small screen vs. big screen, I don't think because my theater-release DVDs look bad too.)
Then again, though, maybe not.
Dude, I *loved* Legolas mounting the horse!
I choose to believe it was real, just like vampires with a soul.
Dude, I *loved* Legolas mounting the horse!
As did I. In my case, it helps that I've been around horses maybe three times in my life (about as often as I've been around elephants, actually), and therefore didn't know if it was against the laws of physics or just really, really nifty.
In RotK, I had time to think "fake...blue screen...blue screen...fake...fake," and in TTT, I really didn't. By the second (third, fourth, fifth) time I saw it, I knew it was CG, but was so used to the way it looked that it didn't bug me.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they tidied it up for the EE DVD release.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if they tidied it up for the EE DVD release.
It's the same as the theatrical. We went back and ran it right away. It might be a screen size thing, or a getting acclimatised thing, I suppose.
Funny, the horse mounting scene throws me off way more than the Oliphaunt scene, because he goes up the horse on the wrong side and his wrist is all catty-whoumpus! The Oliphaunt scene, like Jess said, is fake fake fake, but still really exciting. The horse scene they TOTALLY could have done for real with a crane and stuff.
Ohhh - help!
Non-Tolkein friend just asked me who the guys on the elephants were (like their actual name - not just - "bad guys" which is what I said at first) and I can't remember...anybody?
The horse scene they TOTALLY could have done for real with a crane and stuff.
As I recall, Orlando was injured on that day and couldn't mount the horse properly so they did a little CGI pickup and made it more spectacular.
The horse scene they TOTALLY could have done for real with a crane and stuff.
And a double -- Orlando had a broken rib.
It's the same as the theatrical.
In that case, it's probably a resolution thing. Or they cleaned it up on both DVD releases.
Image quality aside, I still can't figure out how he grabs the reins with the back of his hand. Elves must be massively double-jointed.