Legoland writes: Hi, just writing to let you know about a slightly LOTR related article in this month’s Mensa magazine. The article is about a group of Mensans who go on long journeys together, similar in some ways to the Fellowship of the Ring. [More]
Day: February 23, 2002
From D:
I’ve never written before and I don’t know if what I have to say is useful, but I wanted to let you know that I just happened to turn on PBS here in
Chicagoland at 0100 and caught PJ on with Charlie Rose. He seems to be everything positive that everyone says about him; open, warm, intelligent,
exuberant and very disheveled. This being the first time I had ever seen him speak at length, I was extremely impressed with him. He spoke at length
and with great and intimate knowledge not only on The Lord of the Rings itself but especially about Tolkien himself, his history, his vision, his desire to create a mythology for Britain. He was very near enchanting; one can see why so many people, especially actors, spoke so highly of him. He seems every bit the fan he is made out to be.
As for specifics, one thing of interest I thought was his discussion of his re-cut of FOTR for the DVD. He steered away from calling it a “director’s cut” because he said the version in theater’s IS the director’s cut but that he really enjoyed having this format to put in all the character development moments that had to be excised from the theatrical release. He hedged on any specifics when pressed slightly by Charlie Rose; perhaps to keep Rose from saying “Aragon” any more than he already did.
Anyway, just wanted to give a quick review of PJ on CR. Hope it helps.
Laurellee writes: Just thought I’d let you know that FOTR is still at number 3 down here after 9 weeks. See for yourself. [More]
Érica writes: There’s a coverage of the LOTR press conference in Tokyo (02/20) on the official LOTR Japanese site. I know that not many people can read Japanese, but you’ll be able to see the pictures, at least don’t worry, they didn’t say anything very different from what they had already said and repeated a lot of times. Well, maybe this could be interesting… [More]
With the first installment of his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy a prime contender for Oscar honors, director Peter Jackson says he has reached deep into his bag of movie wizardry to deliver fresh characters and plot twists to part two due in theaters next December. [More]
From Érica:
There’s a coverage of the LOTR press conference in Tokyo (02/20) on the official LOTR Japanese site: http://lord-of-the-ring.com/join/news/pressconf.html
I know that not many people can read Japanese, but you’ll be able to see the pictures, at least… don’t worry, they didn’t say anything very different from what they had already said and repeated a lot of times. Well, maybe this could be interesting:
Question: If you could be another character in the film, which one would you like to be?
Dominic: Arwen! (Everybody laughs)
Elijah: He doesn’t appear much in this first movie, and he is tortured, bad things happen to him, but… Gollum! I’ve liked this character since I was a child.
Liv: Maybe the white horse I rode. Because it doesn’t suffer during the shooting, does it? (Laughs) We (actors) had a tough time. But, of course, it was a wonderful experience as well.
Orlando: Viggo. Not Aragorn, but Viggo himself. (Laughs)
Barry M. Osborne (producer): Peter Jackson. (Laughs) He is like a god. But, talking about characters, Saruman. I mean, Christopher Lee. If he were here, it would be even more fun. He has a great ability to learn languages. He can speak Japanese pretty well.
Dominic: McKellen (Gandalf). We actually became friends during the shooting period. I think his name is the one that first comes to my mind when I’m asked this question.