Even knowing now that he's hurting like hell from broken toes, this scene still is incredible!
Aragorn via Viggo is expressing such passion and frustration here. To run 45 leagues (that's like 135 miles!) only to find his quest and his hope destroyed!
This might not have been canon per se, but dayamn! PJ and Viggo certainly engaged our imaginations with this and, with but one frustrated (and pained) scream, delivered a punch on the emotional level.
Aragorn via Viggo is expressing such passion and frustration here. To run 45 leagues (that's like 135 miles!) only to find his quest and his hope destroyed!
This might not have been canon per se, but dayamn! PJ and Viggo certainly engaged our imaginations with this and, with but one frustrated (and pained) scream, delivered a punch on the emotional level.
All those thoughts mirror my own. This scene does a lovely job of showing us, at a searing glance, the depth of Aragorn's emotions, which the book implies but also tends to skimp as to detail in favor of telling the larger narrative. And in the book Aragorn was still hopeful of finding the two hobbits, where it was Gimli that was down and depressed and hopeless. Aragorn, ever full of hope, encourages him with words, but in the movie, Viggo (and PJ) do the same without words when Aragorn immediately starts tracking the hobbits with ever growing excitement. It's a marvelous condensation of time compared with the book version that still manages to convey the same sort of idea.
I may be biased, but seems that those who sniff at the movies as horrible compared with the books just aren't seeing these little details and how they convey ideas, even though some details change.
Aaand... I'll stop now. I could go on for days on this subject. LOL
I personally feel, regardless of other's interpretation of book media vs film media (usually spoken in ignorance) that we, the LoTR and Tolkien fans have not ONE book called The Lord of the Rings, but in fact TWO! PJ did such a good job in capturing, to my mind anyway, the essense and spirit of what Tolkien was saying and condensing it for a general audience and those of us who know and care and LOVE LoTR gain immensely from his efforts! :)
I'm glad I didn't know ahead of time that the broken toes were the real reason for the anguish... and even knowing that now, I still simply love the scene for the sheer depth of the emotion. Brilliant job of using what's in the moment to perfect your art!
The magic in all this is that it is REAL for us. REAL..
But then horrid commonsense says there's cameras and lights, and makeup and ... but those things might as well be rocks and trees for all the awareness 'Aragorn' has at that time.
It must have been such an exhausting shattering film to make - even in short bursts and not actually running 135 miles (tho they ran one helluva lot! so gracefully too.) One simply marvels.
It really does come as a shock when I see "behind the scenes" photographs that show those cameras and people all around, sometimes *really* close. And yes, just the physical drain all that running and fighting must have taken...
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Date: 2014-02-28 02:17 pm (UTC)Find our hobbits and hold them tight"
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Date: 2014-02-28 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-28 03:57 pm (UTC)Aragorn via Viggo is expressing such passion and frustration here. To run 45 leagues (that's like 135 miles!) only to find his quest and his hope destroyed!
This might not have been canon per se, but dayamn! PJ and Viggo certainly engaged our imaginations with this and, with but one frustrated (and pained) scream, delivered a punch on the emotional level.
Gotta love that!
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Date: 2014-02-28 05:43 pm (UTC)All those thoughts mirror my own. This scene does a lovely job of showing us, at a searing glance, the depth of Aragorn's emotions, which the book implies but also tends to skimp as to detail in favor of telling the larger narrative. And in the book Aragorn was still hopeful of finding the two hobbits, where it was Gimli that was down and depressed and hopeless. Aragorn, ever full of hope, encourages him with words, but in the movie, Viggo (and PJ) do the same without words when Aragorn immediately starts tracking the hobbits with ever growing excitement. It's a marvelous condensation of time compared with the book version that still manages to convey the same sort of idea.
I may be biased, but seems that those who sniff at the movies as horrible compared with the books just aren't seeing these little details and how they convey ideas, even though some details change.
Aaand... I'll stop now. I could go on for days on this subject. LOL
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Date: 2014-02-28 06:06 pm (UTC)heeee!
I personally feel, regardless of other's interpretation of book media vs film media (usually spoken in ignorance) that we, the LoTR and Tolkien fans have not ONE book called The Lord of the Rings, but in fact TWO! PJ did such a good job in capturing, to my mind anyway, the essense and spirit of what Tolkien was saying and condensing it for a general audience and those of us who know and care and LOVE LoTR gain immensely from his efforts! :)
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Date: 2014-02-28 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-02-28 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-01 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-02 12:44 pm (UTC)But then horrid commonsense says there's cameras and lights, and makeup and ... but those things might as well be rocks and trees for all the awareness 'Aragorn' has at that time.
It must have been such an exhausting shattering film to make - even in short bursts and not actually running 135 miles (tho they ran one helluva lot! so gracefully too.) One simply marvels.
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Date: 2014-03-02 02:57 pm (UTC)Marvelous indeed!