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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
This will probably mean nothing to 99.9% of people, but I've been watching a lot of Fritz Lang lately, so here's The Lord of the Rings as a Weimar-era German silent epic:
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Heh, and I thought my John Ford cast was obscure! It's been years since I watched any Fritz Lang, I should check Netflix Watch Instantly, I bet they have a few of those old classics on there.
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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
I was going to do one as a Kurosawa samurai epic too, but realized I don't know enough Japanese actors. But how about Toshiro Mifune as Aragorn and maybe Takashi Shimura as Boromir?
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Nobody could do Théoden's transformation like Shimura, though it's probably inevitable that he'd play Gandalf:
Shimura would make a great Frodo too, come to that; he's probably one of the most versatile actors in cinema history.
Anyway, I was thinking of Tatsuya Nakadai (the gunslinger from
Yojimbo) as Boromir:
Maybe Kamatari Fujiwara for Gollum:
