Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
...and have you seen the trailer yet? It finishes with your favorite character!
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Absolutely, totally cool. Can't understand it, though. LOL That news crew needed to subtitle it in Elvish.
Gotta agree with you on this. I specifically noted Aragorn. Although I think PJ cheated a little on this. In the book Aragorn is not nearly as self-doubting and retiring in the beginning as he is in the movie. After all, he is like 80 and has held high military office under both Rohan and Gondor, and probably other countries, too.
This initial diffidence allows PJ to maximize the change in his character as the movie progresses.
My thought as I watched the preview was that Aragorn was going from being Rambo to being Patton!
I read that what you can do to copy and paste from WMP is you can freeze the frame you want, hit your "print screen" key and then go to your photo-editing software and paste it into a page. What that does is copy your entire monitor screen, then you can crop out all the extraneous stuff to get just the picture inside the player.
Now, I tried this, and it only worked once, the rest of the time it just copied and pasted a black screen. But....my computer is a dinosaur, all of a sudden, so it probably just can't handle the video demands. It's probably worth a shot, if either of you want to try it. I managed to only get one picture because now my Windows MP won't play the darned file at all--it just sits on the very first frame and doesn't move while the sound continues on without it. LOL, what a nightmare.
I was so bummed because I tried to see the trailer here in town but the movie had left town the night before I had planned to go. Now I'm doubting that the trailer was even in the theaters around me.
I also like the idea of Pippin and Merry climbing Treebeard and finding out they aren't in a tree at all, but in an Ent. I think that is a great way to introduce this character. It adds humor and keeps that pace thing going. (I am constantly telling my students... pace, pace...)
To me, he doesn't get it together until the night he spent wrestling with Sauron in the palantir. When he comes out from doing that... he is changed. And everything he does and says is decisive and kingly.
In the movie though, you don't get any of the indecision. (Except a little bit in Rivendell) He takes control of the group right after Gandalf falls.
I don't mind the movie Aragorn at all. In fact, it wasn't until I saw the movie that I began to have appreciation for the character.
Anyway, let me know what you think.
The book-Aragorn, I think, spent basically his whole life preparing to be king. Why else did he spend times fighting for the kings of Gondor and Rohan - his future kingdom and future allies? Being a Ranger was his job - but it got him acquainted with the people and places of Arnor, and probably the lands between. He can speak Common, probably both forms of Elvish, and the language of the Rohirrim. He is friendly with most of the free peoples of Middle Earth.
The movie-Aragorn... well, if they're playing it that he never really wanted to be King, why can he do all these things? Is he just Middle-Earth's version of a renaissance man? However his character is sort of brought to more light and made easier to understand in the movie... I know people who consider book-Aragorn "a bit of a stick". Doubt you could say that about the movie version!
I tried the other one but it stops too soon.
Well, now I have to see it for sure. This Saturday...
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