posted on January 11, 2001 12:27:45 PM new
Eighteen months of filming concluded in December----Tomorrow the OFFICIAL Lord of the Rings Movie website opens with PICTURES!!!-----the Trailers will be shown in the theatres.
I am so looking forward to these 3 movies---I don't think I can wait for post production to complete.
posted on January 11, 2001 12:46:55 PM new
Hello Zazzie,
Clicked on that link and have decided NOT to see this movie after looking at pictures of the cast.
Hobbitts are not people and to employ actors to fill those parts makes me think that immense liberties will be taken in putting Tolkien's work on celluloid.
posted on January 11, 2001 01:11:22 PM new
I'll disagree on that one---J.R.R. Tolkien I don't think would like to see the Hobbitts being only a some pixels on a computer screen. Gollum is going to be computer animated---but the I really think all of the main characters will be inhanced with a real body behind them. Liv Tyler is Arwen !!
Sean Astin--(son of Patty Duke) Sam Gamgee--he's had some great parts
Elijah Wood--Frodo
Ian Holm--Bilbo (remember him in Alien)--but he has done many other awesome parts
Dominic Monaghan--Merry (anyone watch Mystery "Hettie Wainthrope Investigates)--he played Geoffrey
Billy Boyd--Pippin--I don't know much about him
And for one of the ultimate bad guys---the ultimate BAD guy actor---Christopher Lee as Saraman.
Anyways---you'll have 3 years to decide to go to any of the movies...Next Christmas will be 'The Fellowship of the Ring'--followed by 'The Two Towers' Christmas 2002, and 'The Return of the King' Christmas 2003
posted on January 11, 2001 01:36:21 PM new
I dunno. When I see special effects robots, e.g., Yoda, in movies, I tend to watch the machine and not focus on the dialogue. With human actors, maybe I can just focus on the story line. Then again, those humans DON'T look like proper Hobbits.
And another thing, Zazzie, settle down. Relax. It's gonna be a long wait.
posted on January 11, 2001 02:45:04 PM new
I can remember going to see another movie version of Lord of The Rings some 17 or 18 years ago here in Melbourne. It was much vaunted at the time.
The movie was a full length animation and I had really been looking forward to seeing it. About the only thing that I can remember about it now, is how dissapointed I was with it.
Reflecting on it, although the animation was good, I realised that the reason for my dissapointment was due to the fact that in my imagination I had my ideas of how Tolkiens' characters presented themselves. I knew how the landscapes looked. I knew how the earth felt, I knew the voices and the idioms. These were not represented by what I saw in this movie.
My mental images of how they acted, how they physically would look, their nuances of personality were often totally different from how I had perceived the characters. I was looking at strangers.
This is the magic of Tolkien. He paints the framework and lets a reader fill in the detail. In this way the reader comes to be almost a living part of the story, a bit like a bystander with a cloak of invisibility.
Because someone else's interpretation are suddenly thrust at you, the feeling can be unsettling, in as much that because of ones own deep involvement with the characters and narrative, the portrayal you are watching seems to be wrong and inaccurate.
I don't think that I will bother with seeing any movie version of The Rings again. I have my own special version locked away in my mind and for me that is the one I want to keep.
I'm not sure that I've explained this very well, but then again I'm not Tolkien!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
posted on January 11, 2001 02:48:02 PM new
that cartoon had the worse animation ever put on screen--see opinions differ in all things
I guess everyone will have a different way of seeing this. I love The Lord of the Rings--since I read them when I was 14---II've re-read them many times and have enjoyed them again---but I know I will also enjoy seeing it on screen--some characters may not be my vision--but that can't be accomplished by any movie maker--but the caliber of the people invloved inthis production is awesome and I don't think we are going to get without the grandeur and magic and Tolkien.
[ edited by Zazzie on Jan 11, 2001 02:51 PM ]
posted on January 11, 2001 07:52:42 PM new
I can't wait. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit are some of my favorite books of all time. It is always a shock though to see how others present the story visually when you've had it all worked out in your mind. I went through the same "shock" when I saw Dune. The miniseries of Dune was much more well done than the first movie though.
Tolkien was a master storyteller and any movie version will be interesting to me.
posted on January 12, 2001 07:13:02 AM new
Hello Bob,
Well said.
I have a book of poetry edited by Robert Bly titled "The Sea and the Honeycomb". It consists of poems of only a few lines each.
The beauty of these poems is that they serve, as Bly points out in his introductory essay (Dropping the Reader), as doorways into the infinite landscape of the reader's imagination.
