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mark12_30 · 06-14-2002, 09:43 PM

Nar:

Frodo Counsellor guiding Frodolijah: Brilliant.

PJ's reusing the slide-into-corner-retreat: Perhaps you are right. But the impression that I get (unfortunately, it was suggested by a critic and it has stuck) is that PJ is a monster-expert., and can make the most believeable BadThing (troll, balrog, black riders, Eye, traitorous wizard, teeming hordes of orcs...) and just not that good at doing, well, goodness.

Virtue is just not his thing. He's better at portraying vice. Isn't that why Galadriel comes across as oooo-spooky and scary, rather than shining and trustworthy? Why is Lorien spooky? And even Elrond has more of a temper than I ever pictured him having. Gandalf has the deepest patience of any character in the movie, and I attribute that to MacKellan's study of Tolkien and his hounding of PJ to let him use canonical lines (Bravo!).

Ranting. Sorry. You could send FrodoCounselor to calm me down... heh.

06-14-2002, 09:43 PM	#39
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	Nar: Frodo Counsellor guiding Frodolijah: Brilliant. PJ's reusing the slide-into-corner-retreat: Perhaps you are right. But the impression that I get (unfortunately, it was suggested by a critic and it has stuck) is that PJ is a monster-expert., and can make the most believeable BadThing (troll, balrog, black riders, Eye, traitorous wizard, teeming hordes of orcs...) and just not that good at doing, well, goodness. Virtue is just not his thing. He's better at portraying vice. Isn't that why Galadriel comes across as oooo-spooky and scary, rather than shining and trustworthy? Why is Lorien spooky? And even Elrond has more of a temper than I ever pictured him having. Gandalf has the deepest patience of any character in the movie, and I attribute that to MacKellan's study of Tolkien and his hounding of PJ to let him use canonical lines (Bravo!). Ranting. Sorry. You could send FrodoCounselor to calm me down... heh. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.