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mark12_30 · 12-19-2002, 09:42 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> How did you like Frodo's role and Elijah Wood's acting in the second movie? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Frodo's role, ie. the screenplay-- See Rimbaud's post, with which I despairingly agree. PJ needs to study the concept of Nobility. It is entirely missing in these films except by experienced actors' instinct alone; I wonder how many actors' instinctively noble moments ended up on the cutting floor?<P>Elijah Wood's portrayal: I think he did a magnificent job-- considering the dismal, wholly inaccurate, entirely non-canonical assignment he was given. (See Birdland's "The Indecisive Nazgul" thread.) Alas! If only Elijah Wood had read, and absorbed, the trilogy beforehand, as McKellen had, and stood up to the writers and directors just as McKellan did... but Wood was just a boy. Alas, alas...<P>I'll eventually get used to it, and eventually accept (again) that there are two distinct Frodos; the Real one from the books, and PJ's Alternate Universe Fanfic version.

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mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> How did you like Frodo's role and Elijah Wood's acting in the second movie? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Frodo's role, ie. the screenplay-- See Rimbaud's post, with which I despairingly agree. PJ needs to study the concept of Nobility. It is entirely missing in these films except by experienced actors' instinct alone; I wonder how many actors' instinctively noble moments ended up on the cutting floor?<P>Elijah Wood's portrayal: I think he did a magnificent job-- considering the dismal, wholly inaccurate, entirely non-canonical assignment he was given. (See Birdland's "The Indecisive Nazgul" thread.) Alas! If only Elijah Wood had read, and absorbed, the trilogy beforehand, as McKellen had, and stood up to the writers and directors just as McKellan did... but Wood was just a boy. Alas, alas...<P>I'll eventually get used to it, and eventually accept (again) that there are two distinct Frodos; the Real one from the books, and PJ's Alternate Universe Fanfic version. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.