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Username: Patty
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| | Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 10:53 pm: |     |
Came back from taking my young hobbit to Lincoln Center for a series of Lord of the Rings presentations. Besides an all-day Saturday showing of the trilogy (was only able to see yesterday's 10am extended Fellowship, beautiful as always and great on a big screen), today offered an appearance by Peter Jackson (cancelled as an in-person presentation and replaced with a live-by-satellite interview from New Zealand)  .
Anyway, as a peace offering, the Film Society had Elijah Wood and Sean Astin introduce the first movie yesterday and join the Jackson discussion today, accompanied by Bernard Hill (King Theoden) and Andy Serkus (Gollum/Smeagol).
Humorous moments included Jackson's recounting how he encouraged Hugo Weaving to gild his tent scene, where he meets Aragorn to give him that re-forged sword, by dramatically flipping his cloak hood down to reveal his Matrix sunglasses.
Bernard Hill said he liked realizing that there were Theoden dolls for sale ("hey, there's me on a throne") and revealed that during the scene where the feared-dead Aragorn returns to Rohan "like a rock star" to tell King Theoden of the advancing armies (and both Hill and Wood, sitting on stage, bowed their heads and threw their arms out the way Aragorn opens the hall doors--very funny to see), they were filming just Hill's camera shot takes for "How many are there?" and Viggo kept trying to crack him up, saying, "Thousands ....... All on a shelf ...... They will cast your head in plastic.........!!! "
Also Hill talked about "well, you know that scene where the enemy is using enormous battering rams to crash into the doors and "I'm saying 'Bring more wood! Bring more wood!' -- yeah right!" he also got the cast and crew to start yelling " GO AWAY !!! -- IT'S THE [unidentified religious door-to-door pamphleteering group]!"
That had to be a good one for the out-take DVD which, actually, Jackson promised to make someday.
Sadly, it turned out that Andy Serkus was the only one to miss a turn to talk. Perhaps he'll get to make up for it during his Best Supporting Actor Oscar speech (shared with Tim Robbins, of course).  |
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