Clueless in Middle Earth (WAS LOTR movie)

[lupinesque]

Cindy wrote:

> 3.  Uh, how come some of these people were not cast in HP?  Ian 
> McClellan is just way better than Richard Harris.  

I think the problem with Richard Harris is that he doesn't know that 
Dumbledore is whimsical and funny.  How would he?  He hasn't read the 
books and the screenplay left out most of his humor.  (Unless it was 
in there and got cut after shooting.)

>The guy with the 
> braids and metal headband who chaired the meeting (Elrond?) is 
Sirius 
> Black;
>the other fellowship guy with the beard (Aragorn?) was Lupin. 

The one who got killed?  That's Boromir.  OK, I can see it.  No way 
can Viggo (the guy who played Aragorn, who is the same person as 
Strider BTW) be Lupin though.  Nope, can't see that one.


> I also think the HP filmmakers should start looking for non-Brit 
> actors, because Wood really had me believing he is British when he 
is 
> actually from California (according to Leno).  I guess good actors 
> can do good accents.

Or Americans can't spot bad English accents.  Weaving isn't British 
either; he's Australian (and does a flawless American accent, BTW, 
judging from The Matrix--I'd never have known he wasn't American).  
Brits, how'd they do?
 
> 7.  On balance, I think the director of LotR gets hired for future 
> LotR films,

Already done--they have filmed them all and are doing the 
postproduction on the final two over the next two years.

>  Is there any way we can get the LotR director for HP 3 
> and 4?

Good idea!

> 9.  I am reconsidering my adamant opposition to splitting GoF into 
> two movies.  Because I haven't read the trilogy, I actually expected 
> our team in LotR to take the ring to that nasty mountain volcano 
> thing, chuck it in, and declare victory.  I was stunned when the 
> movie just  . . . ended.  But it worked.  

I know someone who suggested that they film LoTR as *6* movies, since 
JRRT wrote it as six books (two per volume of the trilogy).  But GF 
was not written as two books, so it would be a lot harder to make that 
work.

Amy