With the unspeakable events of Sept. 11, America was shaken from its long, happy slumber of isolated oblivion to a hard global reality. Maybe even the movies will change. We’ve already witnessed Hollywood’s first hammer-to-kneecap reaction, putting next week’s release of the Arnold Schwarzenegger political thriller Collateral Damage on indefinite hold, and pulling out the digital erasers to scrub the World Trade Centre towers from the theatrical trailers for the coming Spider-Man movie. [More]
Month: September 2001
From: James
On the front page of ‘The Daily Telegraph’ newspapers ‘Arts and Books’ supplement there is an article about the FOTR movie, especially the merchandising. The article focuses on the comparision between LOTR:FOTR and Harry Potter.
Anyone who has the paper and a scanner, send it along!
Ringer Spy anonymous sends along this interesting bit of info regarding the use of arrows in LOTR. Want to know how they make Legolas and other Elves move faster than seems possible? !Spoilers! [More]
Ringer Spy anonymous sends along this interesting bit of info regarding the use of arrows in LOTR:
anonymous quotes Calisuri from our frame-by-frame look at the latest TV tralier:
“Legolas turns to face the attackers as the remaining Fellowship escapes from Moria.
We believe there are some special effects used here to make Legolas’s actions swifter, as is his nature. Notice how fast he draws the arrow and fires.”
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anonymous: The arrow is CG. Use the arrow keys to slow down the footage and you’ll note he doesn’t even pull the arrow from his quiver, but rather from behind his other shoulder. Arrows are often CG on LOTR, because obviously no-one can string a bow that fast and speeding up a shot often looks stupid.
According to Ringer Spy llynn1 the November/December issue of ‘My Generation’ Magazine has a few pages dedicated to LOTR. Anyone with the magazine and a scanner should send some scans along!
From: Jason J
“Frodo Baggins can shred. While shooting the Lord of the Rings trilogy back-to-back-to-back, the men who play Tolkien’s diminutive woodland creatures (from left, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, and Billy Boyd) bought surfboards and took advantage of New Zealands’ raddest natural resource. Studio Execs undoubtedly cringed while the stars of their $270 million project braved thundering waves and coral reefs; Viggo Mortenson suffered a black eye his first time out. But the actors swear their offscreen bonding made their onscreen chemistry work. “Surfing is when the Hobbits really became the Hobbits- its all about the camaraderie and bonding. It was massively keen.” Wood says. “We called ourselves ‘the Black Riders.’ It kind of became official when we made up some t-shirts that said Lord of the Rings Surfing Club.”