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View Poll Results: Who is your pick to direct "The Hobbit"
Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) 1 5.00%
Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) 4 20.00%
Peter Weir (Master and Commander) 3 15.00%
Andrew Adamson (Chronicles of Narnia) 0 0%
Get Peter Jackson anyway, by hook or crook! 5 25.00%
Tim Burton 5 25.00%
Someone else 2 10.00%
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Old 04-09-2008, 10:43 AM   #36
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The fascination of Chigurh I think lies in the dual nature of the character. He, as most of the film, is depicted with a specifically, intensely realised realism. But the character isn't just a hitman, a brutal human being. He is more, approaching the status almost of a Bergman-like Death personified--and this is not just in Chigurh's mind. How the character achieves both states is a fascinating part of the movie. And Tolkien talked about this kind of allegory in one of his letters, as I recall.
Yes, he was rather like the chess-playing reaper in The Seventh Seal. Strange movie, and without Chigurh (and Badem's portrayal), just a run-of-the-mill drug-deal-gone-bad chase movie. Not a very eucatastrophic ending either, eh Beth?
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