The thing that makes Sam's slo-mo "Share the Load" line even cheezier is the horrified way Frodo is looking at him when he says it, and the close up on Sean Astin's obvious stubble (NOT a hobbit!), as if Frodo can't believe Sam is a) saying something so cheezy and b) that he has stubble . That was...TOO CLOSE!
Another big slice of cheese from Cirith Ungol is "It's sticky..what is it?" Real teenage horror movie dupe stuff...here is Frodo...obvious victim of the dark nameless horror. But this directorial Captain Obvious stunt is overwhelmed by the sheer hilarity of the "sticky" line. Gollum's child-demon horror movie singsong is yet another element of "let's make this whole Shelob's Lair sequence into a late 1970's horror movie! I also find the way Frodo is obviously staring hard when Sam is holding him after Frodo has become a spider eggroll to be strangely amusing as well. It makes me think that there was a particularly funny joke that Elijah has to keep trying hard to forget in order to keep a straight face.
Quote:
one of the scenes that I found cheesy was Gandalf and Pippin's discussion on the afterlife in Gondor. I didn't realise, until someone on here pointed it out, that those lines were actually genuine Tolkien.
But they were quoted out of context, and were not in keeping with Tolkien's ideology - Pippin, as a mortal, had a fate after death unknown to any other than Eru. The final "that's not so bad, is it?" was a bit wincey.
|
Indeed, I thought that Gandalf was being horribly cruel to the little hobbit, as Pippin would NEVER see this particular end, and Gandalf was just teasing! And what was with Gandalf saying "death is a road we all must take?" I'm sure he didn't want to go into the immortality of the Elves and all that, especially not with Pippin's endlessly inquisitive nature, but it would have been cute if Pippin just started quizzing him then and there...
Cheers!
Lyta
P.S. Must give Boromir a thumbs up for the Cave Troll line...so much conveyed in so few words!