LOTR movies

[Joanne Collins]

Rebecca wrote:

>Frodo's not that young -- about the human equivalent of thirty -- but
>Hobbits look younger than they are (people often mistake them for children)
>so it's not an issue.

Sounds about right to me, then.

>No, Legolas is played by Orlando Bloom.  

Ah, a friend of mine mentioned him the other day, said he was cute *g*.

>Viggo Mortensen plays Aragorn (a
>man, not an elf), 

I can't wait to see him in this movie. I have only recently discovered him
as an actor, and I really think he's very good.

>Sean Bean plays Boromir (also a man), 

Sounds interesting.

>and Hugo Weaving
>plays Elrond, who is half-elf, half-human.

Ah, a mixed breed, as they say.

>I think they almost made the elves *too* macho, myself.  I imagined them
>being thinner, with finer (though certainly not feminine or "cute")
>features... ah, well.  I'll wait and see.

Well, if Hugo were an elf, I'd wonder...my favourite movie of his is
Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert.

>> There's a Harry in LOTR?
>
>*chuckle*  No.  That should have been Frodo.

I see *g*.

>Not quite true.  Arwen is mentioned more than once in the trilogy and even
>appears briefly "on screen" as it were, but her role is quite tiny.  

Ah, I see.

The
>appendix to which Liv is referring is the story of Aragorn and Arwen, which
>apparently is being worked into the main plot to give Arwen more screen
>time.

That's what the interview I just read with her said.

>I have no idea whether Liv Tyler can act, not having seen her in >anything,

I think she can, and very well, but I'm prejudiced because I like her
anyway. If you're looking for something that she has been in, I really like
her in Inventing The Abbotts. I like her in Armageddon too, but a lot of
people aren't into the action thing, though I think there's more to it.

>but she is very lovely and perhaps the most truly elf-like actress in the
>film.  

Yes, I would agree with that, she is rather elfin. That is a good thing.

>The pictures I've seen of Cate Blanchet as Galadriel don't quite work
>for me -- she reminds me too much of Buttercup in THE PRINCESS BRIDE.

Cate doesn't quite strike me as the elfin type, but the two movies I've
seen her in didn't really give one an idea (The Talented Mr Ripley, in
which she doesn't have a large role, and The Gift).

>However, it's hard to get a good picture of a character just from still
>photographs, and she might be just fine on film.

That's true.

Amy Z wrote:
>
>Frodo is 33 (hmm, never picked up on the Jesus connection before).  

Intriguing...

>Hobbits don't live much longer than humans--Bilbo is unusual in 
>reaching "eleventy-one," 111--so even if they look childlike, Elijah 
>Wood seems pretty young.

Hmmmm, perhaps.

>Now, I think Alan Rickman is perfect, but I mean PERFECT, for Snape, 
>and he's 20+ years too old, so I am far from consistent on this issue. 

I think we can all be inconsistent on these things. There are a couple of
my favourite actors making movies based on books I've read, and in both
cases I'm not sure I see it.

> If the kid can act, and I haven't seen him in anything since he was 
>about 10 so I don't know, then great and I won't complain.  Heck, I'm 
>bordering on ecstatic about Daniel Radcliffe and he doesn't look a 
>thing like Harry.

I've never seen him in anything that I remember, but I've heard good things
about him.

>very happy about Ian Holm, who definitely isn't 111

When I first read this, I thought the 111 was ill.

Joanne.

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