Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Do either of you know how to save images from video files being played in Windows Media Player? HOTD, I thought I remember talking to you about how to save frames as JPG images, but I can't figure out how to do it.
Where now the horse and rider? Where is the horn that was blowing....
Oh, my hands are starting to shake again! I'm going to have to go see it again, I guess!
Theoden was my favorite part.
I know! For some reason, it's branded into my brain! A very intense dramatic scene! I'm dying to see it again!
I think I need a new computer.... :( :( :(
Overtaxed: What's the web address for that website you showed us in chat the other day for motherboard bundles? I can't remember it, and I don't think I bookmarked it.
I can't wait! :)
My brother-in-law was here yesterday for Easter brunch. He is a LOTR afficionado; has read the trilogy, by his estimates, around 30 times, dating back to his late teen years.
He loves the books & has used them as his "escape" against the trials & tribulations of life.
He does not want to see the movie.
He is afraid that his perceptions of the story and the characters, carefully honed and perfected over his many readings, will be forever skewed if he gives in to, in his words "Hollywood hype".
WELL..............
I began by explaining that the movie was not filmed in Hollywood, but in New Zealand. That got his attention. Then I showed him my FOTR calendar, slowly, page by page, introducing him to each character; he was pleasantly surprised ("That's EXACTLY how I've always pictured Gimli!!", "Yeah, those Orcs are nasty!") and had only 2 negative comments: 1.) He's always pictured Galadriel as being middle-aged, and 2.) He's always pictured Aragorn as slender and BLONDE. He seemed particularly nervous about the film's interpretation of Aragorn; whether they would maintain his sense of nobility and decency, or whether he would come across as a macho, Schwartzeneggar type; I told him as best I could that the character remains intact throughout and that in spite of the fact that he is such a hottie, that one really admires him not just for his looks but also for his other sterling qualities.
Then I brought him in here, to this thread, and showed him some of the Aragorn pictures that hve been posted here; he admired the fact that the always looks like he just crawled out of the woods or out of a recent battle; no "pretty boy"-type affectations going on here.
Then I showed him one of the sites that has pictures from the 3 movies..he was fascinated.........kept saying "Yes! Yes! That's how I've always pictured it!"
Then I played the soundtrack for him. He happens to love Enya, so that helped.:)
He's still not convinced. My last argument was this: that the people I have talked with HERE have also read the books many, many more times than I have, and you all seem to have loved the movie; and that the movie-makers, and some of the actors, themselves love the trilogy and have an interested in preserving the integrity of the story.
Should I keep encouraging him to go? Or does he run the risk of losing his carefully preserved mental images forever?
You would not BELIEVE the amount of discussion this engendered yetserday.........
And I can't really give you a link, 'cause it's something I downloaded--it's only on my hard drive now.
So I can't save frames as images after all? ::sob::
I wonder....maybe the Divx player has that capability--but it won't run for me because my computer is so archaic.
Someone is stopping at the computer store on the way home today! :o
I can save frames from avi files using my pc camera software. Hehehe
One, recommend that he see the movie twice. Most people who are huge fans of the book need to get past the first viewing in order to really appreciate the way the movie handles things--you have to digest the changes, and then give it another go.
Two, perhaps it would help to tell him that each day of filming, each time they went out to film a scene, PJ would read the passage in the book that was being filmed immediately beforehand to put clearly in his mind what Tolkien's vision was of the scene being filmed.
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