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J has come through with a great cell and a photograph from ’78 Bashki ‘movie’. A little Blast from the Past for you folks
Month: October 1999
My Contact has slipped me yet another bit ‘o script from the Arwen auditions!
You hardcore Tolkien fans are certainly going to like this. The sequence follows the first meeting of Arwen and Aragorn. Aragorn mistakes her for Luthien, an immortal lady who chooses to become mortal for the love of a man.
The interesting bit is, this isn’t really mentioned in the Trilogy, but in Appendix A part V, someone has done their homework!
The rest of the scene is a rather nice meeting of these two characters.
The meeting takes place in Rivendell, and Aragorn is surprised to learn she is a child of the Eldar.
I’ve already lived in this world so long that to me, you’re but a yearling shoot next to a tree of many summers.
ARAGORN
(sighs)
I know it. I am mortal, and you are Elf kind.
Liv Tyler, better known as Arwen. Was on ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ last night, October 7th. Liv and Jay spoke of her latest film, Plunkett & McLaine as well as her next film.
The only LOTR mention was at the very end when Jay asked her where she was off to, he then answered the question himself, New Zealand.
Sigh, I just WISH he would have asked her something about LOTR, oh well.
I know we’ve covered this before, it’s somewhere in the archives, but a VERY reliable source sent me this tonight:
By the way, there’s been all this talk wondering about whether the Ents will be played by performers on stilts, and while I’m not sure what they are intended for (possibly just to provide a mobile reference point when shooting set-ups involving mixed-scale characters, such as the Hobbits alongside humans, etc.), the Ents will be realised primarily as fully digital characters, with partial full-scale props being utilized.
Verrry interesting
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Another sort of obscure thing that you might want to feature as a sort of “blast from the past” item. It’s a so-called “photo-roto”, a photographic blow-up from motion picture film, showing the live-actors used as animation reference in Ralph Bakshi’s adaptation. This example comes from a heated exchange during the coucil of Elrond. I don’t know who the performer playing Gandalf is (although note the stylized make-up used to facilitate interpreting the facial features in drawing form), but Bilbo is being played by none other than classic small person actor Billy Barty (“Legend”, “Willow”, “Under the Rainbow”). An unusual look at the “movie under the paint” as it were, from the much-maligned animated film.
With a little digging, I managed to get a few sound bites of Andy Serkis’ voice.
These are from the film ‘Career Girls’ where Serkis played Mr. Evans, a female obsessed pig who’s trying to sell his house.
Serkis will obviously ‘play up’ his voice to play the troubled Hobbit, but it’s at least a treat to hear his voice!
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Enjoy