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Nov. 20th, 2002 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikDoing better today... and Shoko worked with us all on stance and posture last night, which was timely. And then she even showed us some silk reeling exercises that loosen up the hip muscles I've been struggling with. (This is why I study with Shoko as well as with Master Hong. That, and I love Master Feng's form...)
Finished watching the cast commentary to Fellowship of the Ring last night. I suspect we will watch the other commentaries, eventually anyway.
Regarding the easter egg: SMG kicks Liv Tyler as Arwen. This doesn't mean I exactly think SMG should be cast as Arwen ;-) But I'd really enjoy watching her kick Liv Tyler's ass. (Gods but she annoys me. Usually, when I hear actors talk about how they've chosen to portray their characters, I become more sympathetic... in this case, she just annoyed me more.)
Some of the new scenes almost present Elrond as halfway believable. (It's not the bitterness I object to, it's the type A personality -- anyone that hypertensive wouldn't have lasted 3000 years.) Oh -- for the department of whacky alternative casting, Craig and I were trying to come up with an idea of who would make a better Elrond -- not so much in looks, but someone who could convey the right sort of dignity and perspective, the right mixture of serenity and intensity, not to mention the whole half elven bit. The only suggestion we both liked was Chow Yun Fat. Now don't that break your brain?
I'm so far surprised at the lack of discussion (at least in the cast commentaries) about the dynamic between Aragorn and Boromir... The politics that underlay that relationship were fascinating -- in the book at least, Aragorn speaks up for the Rangers against the peopel of Gondor, saying the rangers have fought at least as long and as hard, and yet with far less support or recognition. Likewise, Boromir isn't exactly falling all over himself to pledge allegiance to Aragorn. (And yet, how much is that because he is convinced that the white city will fall, and that the man whose duty it should have been to protect it seems to care nothing for this concern. And he's a proud man.) Lots of discussion about Boromir pledging himself to Aragorn with his dying breath... but the reciprocal binding struck me if anything more strongly. After he had known Boromir, and the passionate, if tragic man he was, how could Aragorn not pledge himself to Gondor? Whether or not he'd accepted that his fate lay there intellectually (and I'm talking here mostly about the movie) I don't think his heart was pledged to Gondor until Boromir's death...
In the cast commentaries, attention is called to Aragorn strapping on Boromir's vambraces, saying something like "isn't that a nice touch, he's keeping something to remember him by". That'd been one of my favorite small scenes in the movie... but I think it's a bit more significant. The vambraces bear the white tree of Ithilien, and at that moment he was taking up that part of his duty.
At some point, I also want to write about the paralells between Boromir and Eowyn (and dammit, they'd better not mess her up!) They're both in fairly similar situations, each of them having come to despair for the future, and yet each fighting on and doing their best to carry themselves with honor.
Finished watching the cast commentary to Fellowship of the Ring last night. I suspect we will watch the other commentaries, eventually anyway.
Regarding the easter egg: SMG kicks Liv Tyler as Arwen. This doesn't mean I exactly think SMG should be cast as Arwen ;-) But I'd really enjoy watching her kick Liv Tyler's ass. (Gods but she annoys me. Usually, when I hear actors talk about how they've chosen to portray their characters, I become more sympathetic... in this case, she just annoyed me more.)
Some of the new scenes almost present Elrond as halfway believable. (It's not the bitterness I object to, it's the type A personality -- anyone that hypertensive wouldn't have lasted 3000 years.) Oh -- for the department of whacky alternative casting, Craig and I were trying to come up with an idea of who would make a better Elrond -- not so much in looks, but someone who could convey the right sort of dignity and perspective, the right mixture of serenity and intensity, not to mention the whole half elven bit. The only suggestion we both liked was Chow Yun Fat. Now don't that break your brain?
I'm so far surprised at the lack of discussion (at least in the cast commentaries) about the dynamic between Aragorn and Boromir... The politics that underlay that relationship were fascinating -- in the book at least, Aragorn speaks up for the Rangers against the peopel of Gondor, saying the rangers have fought at least as long and as hard, and yet with far less support or recognition. Likewise, Boromir isn't exactly falling all over himself to pledge allegiance to Aragorn. (And yet, how much is that because he is convinced that the white city will fall, and that the man whose duty it should have been to protect it seems to care nothing for this concern. And he's a proud man.) Lots of discussion about Boromir pledging himself to Aragorn with his dying breath... but the reciprocal binding struck me if anything more strongly. After he had known Boromir, and the passionate, if tragic man he was, how could Aragorn not pledge himself to Gondor? Whether or not he'd accepted that his fate lay there intellectually (and I'm talking here mostly about the movie) I don't think his heart was pledged to Gondor until Boromir's death...
In the cast commentaries, attention is called to Aragorn strapping on Boromir's vambraces, saying something like "isn't that a nice touch, he's keeping something to remember him by". That'd been one of my favorite small scenes in the movie... but I think it's a bit more significant. The vambraces bear the white tree of Ithilien, and at that moment he was taking up that part of his duty.
At some point, I also want to write about the paralells between Boromir and Eowyn (and dammit, they'd better not mess her up!) They're both in fairly similar situations, each of them having come to despair for the future, and yet each fighting on and doing their best to carry themselves with honor.
