CMackintosh
Rivendell
Aug 10, 10:56am
Views: 8471
|
The Search For Spock and Frodo and Gollum inside Mount Doom
|
|
|
I should've guessed it. Here's another allusion - in Star Trek 3 The Search For Spock, Admiral James T. Kirk is stuck on the planet Genesis with his enemy the unnamed captain of the Klingon vessel - after he's made that famous speech "You Klingon bastard, you killed my son!" - with the unconscious body of the rebodied Spock. And the two, the Federation admiral and the Klingon captain, get into a fight. They tumble onto a small ledge, above a ravine which is full of fires breaking out from inside the doomed planet, the ledge crumbles, and the Klingon captain is left hanging by his hands from what's left of the ledge they were fighting on. Admiral Kirk offers his hand to the Klingon captain, who tries to drag him in with him, and Admiral Kirk kicks him off and down into the fiery ravine. After which Admiral Kirk commandeers the Klingon veseel and they escape while the planet Genesis explodes into flames and spouts of fiery lava. Now looking at the sequence of events inside the cavern of Mount Doom, we see that both Frodo and Gollum fight on a narrow ledge above a fiery hollow. Gollum takes a tumble and falls into the fiery hollow. Frodo nearly follows him, but Sam pulls him out. They make it out while Mount Doom explodes into gouts and rivers of fiery lava. And are rescued by a flying friend or three. I get the distinct impression that scene from Star Trek 3 The Search For Spock made a big impact on Peter Jackson when it came out in 1979.
|