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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Poor little prawn....swimming in the ocean...trying to avoid being caught and et.
Who has the list of this year's requirements?
So far all I have is Hair appearing as "Helena Handbasket."
Do we make all new item requirements? I assume the Hair cameo is still a default one.
Mmmm... prawns. Too bad we're having chicken...
On my way home now.
They interviewed the two armorers, who spent six years making nothing but chain mail. Real steel "hero" mail, aluminum mail, and for the extras waaay in the background, plastic ring mail.
They said the demands for mail kept growing by a factor of ten every time they thought they were caught up. The movie kept getting bigger, and more of everything was needed. The costumers had to keep track of 14,000 costumes in three different scales.
They developed a machine to automatically take vinyl tubing, slit it, and cut it into rings. But after that, even the plastic ring mail was assembled by hand, one ring at a time. And the "hero" armor was done in a very dense, complicated pattern using smaller rings. Again, I suspect the real steel armor was used to acclimate the actors, and then given to them as gifts after the movie was done. 99.99% of the shooting was done using aluminum ring armor.
All of that got me to thinking about the effort that went into this movie. Some people worked on it for six solid years, hundreds more for something less than that, and thousands for many months, at least. My guess is that at least a thousand man-years went into the movies, and quite easily much more than that.
That level of dedication and enthusiasm shows up in the final result. Someone in the commentary said that there was nobody just reading lines and "acting" to get a pay check. Everyone believed in the book, and PJ's movie version. I think that's a tribute to both Tolkien and PJ to get that kind of commitment from people. It also makes me wonder if PJ can draw that out of himself and everyone else if he makes The Hobbit, which was never as grand and sweeping of a concept.
It'd be realllly hard to stretch that to 50k words, though.
Prawn stream of consciousness...
Just wouldn't work.
Perhaps it's a very wiley and clever prawn....the first of an advanced prawn species...
...and evolved to go very well with cocktail sauce.
Hrm... going on travel tomorrow. Last minute deal. Gonna do nano-prep on da plane.
Threadkill
The thread does tend to hit the hay early these days, doesn't it?
A number of years back we went to the local ren-fest and I watched a couple of the SCA's show how they made their chain mail. They had pliers that had been modified to crimp the circles into place. I looked at one remarked that it looked like the old seat cushion staple crimper that my dad had kept in his tool box. They laughed and said it would probably work but they used a thinner guage wire, those staples were heavier. Very labor intensive and a real test of how much the SCA'er wanted to wear mail.
Here's hoping that PJ does the Hobbit and does it soon.
I'm not thrilled about not having any chance to check in during the day. And the evenings get hectic. We mowed the lawn this evening and that and dinner and a movie ate the whole evening.
What did you watch?
Speaking of watching...Lost starts tomorrow. Woo-hoo!
Did I hear you come for your cat already? 'Cause he's on my steps now...
I got him, thanks :~)
Been trying to get the cats to understand how to push the pet door to the new kitty outhouse, but progress happens slow when you have a brain the size of a walnut. :~)
I betcha it really freaks Tweak out, too. ;-) She brings scaredy-cat to a whole new level.
9/30/2006
Gandalf actor Ian McKellen is waiting for The Hobbit, too: "I'd very much like Peter Jackson to consider it. I've put it to him a number of times. I think understandably his ambitions might lie elsewhere."
Complete interview at AfterElton.com
9/26/2006
In another interview Peter Jackson again talks about The Hobbit and says, the sets of Hobbiton and Rivendell do still exist and could be used in The Hobbit again.
Article at Entertainment Weekly
9/18/2006
Peter Jackson talks in an interview in detail about The Hobbit:
He still waits to be asked by MGM and New Line to produce The Hobbit. Meanwhile his calendar gets stuffed more and more with other projects. So maybe someone else will make the movie.
Jackson would like to continue with the actors from Lord of the Rings and even include these roles which don't appear in The Hobbit or are only mentioned marginally, like Legolas and Saruman. With a movie in two parts he would show Saurons defeat against the White Council and his return to Mordor.
Article at aintitcool.com
We watched Godzilla, the American version. Yay for mindless violenece.
Yawn. It's morning already? Sheesh.
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