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
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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