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34 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About "The Lord Of The Rings" Trilogy
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Posted on 08/31/2014 6:48:45 AM PDT by Perdogg
1. Nicolas Cage passed up the role of Aragorn because of family obligations.
2. Daniel Day-Lewis also turned down the role multiple times.
3. The same fight choreographer and fencer who worked on Lord of the Rings also worked on The Parent Trap and Star Wars.
4. And he said that Viggo Mortensen was the best swordsman [he] ever trained.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; TV/Movies; The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: lordoftherings; lotr
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posted on
08/31/2014 6:48:45 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: Perdogg
Nicolas Cage passed up the role of Aragorn because of family obligations. Tolkien's heavenly intercession, perhaps.
Daniel Day-Lewis might have been okay.
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posted on
08/31/2014 6:49:38 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
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posted on
08/31/2014 6:49:53 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush)
To: Tax-chick
Hard to imagine anyone other than Mortenson. He's generally a "mumbler," but I think he was perfectly cast.
BTW, watched a special feature on Samuel Bronstein, who produced "King of Kings," "El Cid," "Fall of the Roman Empire," and the special effects/costume people ALWAYS used real iron swords because Bronstein wanted a realistic effect.
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posted on
08/31/2014 6:54:57 AM PDT
by
LS
('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
To: Perdogg
The same fight choreographer and fencer who worked on Lord of the Rings also worked on The Parent Trap and Star Wars. Must be the NEW "Parent Trap." The original one was in 1961. :o)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
08/31/2014 6:58:16 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush)
To: Perdogg
Would have been so easy to quickly end the story. Just give Sauron of Mordor a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. He’ll then shoot his eye out.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:00:15 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: LS
Hard to imagine anyone other than Mortenson.Now it is, but before he was cast, it was more up in the air. Daniel Day-Lewis has the jaw for it.
I think Sean Bean would have been a fine Aragon.
Interesting about the sword-fighting in the old costume dramas. Bob Anderson, the sword trainer and choreographer, did absolutely everything from Captain Blood to Star Wars. He was practically the one-and-only in that business.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:00:57 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
To: Perdogg
"6. Sean Connery was originally offered the role of Gandalf, but had never read the books and didnt understand the script. But he was fine with "Highlander"?
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:01:40 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: cloudmountain
His first work was in 1952 on The Master of Ballentrae, a swashbuckling adventure movie starring Erroll Flynn.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:03:11 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
To: Perdogg
Viggo Mortenson is also an excellent horseman. He actually kept the animal he rode and trained in the movie and gave away the White horse (Florian) to the gal that trained him and did the stunt riding as Arwen, facing down the Nazgul, etc. What an extraordinary gesture on his part.
Reading the article, I am so relieved that JRR Tolkien shot down the Beatles request to make the film. Kubrick would have been a disaster on this project.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:04:34 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: cloudmountain
Actually Bob Anderson was a Hollywood legend in regards to fencing. He started choreographing in the 40’s.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:10:59 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Perdogg
27. The Nazguls screeches were made by sound technicians scraping Target plastic cups together. And here I thought it was recordings of PIAPS played at 78
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:12:47 AM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: Tax-chick
Nicholas Cage would have been horrible! Can’t act, looks like a metrosexual, the thin, whiny voice. Why was he even in contention?
Agreed. Day-Lewis would have worked.
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08/31/2014 7:15:18 AM PDT
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:20:19 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Perdogg
Nicolas Cage passed up the role of Aragorn because of family obligations.
MORDOR?!?
*Whew*....lol!
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:24:07 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: LS
I thought he was the poorest casting choice. I wanted Hugh Jackson.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:32:54 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: LS
I have to disagree with the Mortensen pick. This was the latest in a Iong line of kings, but there was nothing regal about Mortensen’s Aragorn. He could have greased a chariot’s wheels with the oil in his hair. He spoke with no real authority or presence. And the continual whining about Arwen was more the behavior of a love-lorn schoolboy than an heir to Isildur.
Badly miscast, in my opinion.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:33:41 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Perdogg
Just read these out loud to my husband...great info!
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:37:19 AM PDT
by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Turmoil in the Middle East? Quick Obama, show them your Peace Prize!)
To: LS
“El Cid,”
My favorite movie!
If you watch the joust scene where they end up using Claymore swords you can tell those are real swords.
EL CID ON dvd is available at Walmart.
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posted on
08/31/2014 7:38:43 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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