swordwhale
Tol Eressea
Feb 24 2013, 7:41pm
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random thots....
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Thanks to Linuxelf for the video! (Too bad I'm on the other coast). ???: Has anyone else seen any of the other films? I am, of course, a rabid Tolkien Geek, so I'm all over The Hobbit. I also feel it might not get any real awards until all three films are out (much like LoTR). I did see Life of Pi, beautiful, probably had some production challenges, but I heartily dislike "dream frames" or "magical realism" or anything which goes, "oh, wait, that maybe wasn't real". The film did have something to say about how and why we tell stories, but... arrrrrgggggghhhh! My friend saw Lincoln, and said it was awesome. We live near the famous Gettysburg (as in Civil War, Battle of...) my favorite dog-running trail begins at Hanover junction, where Lincoln once stopped. We are steeped in that bit of history with random battle reinactments all the time, and Civ-War reinactors all over the place (they are quite good and very dedicated to portraying history accurately, down to the stitching in their uniforms). I did not see LeMis (wanted to, might catch it on DVD) and still think this way about costuming and makeup regarding all these films: Historical drama: look at some period paintings/photos, dress your actors. Horses in period gear. Add mud liberally. Guy stuck on lifeboat: some sunburn, some tattered pirate gear. Some dead fish. A CG tiger. Modern drama: dress your actors. Middle Earth: turn a 6'2" guy who looks like an Elf into a stout stolid 5' Dwarf. Make him sexy. Then do it with scale doubles, stunt doubles, riding doubles, some other doubles (none of whom look like him at all). Now do it with 12 other guys. Now do it with a few Wizards, a Hobbit, and all the orcs that aren't CG. Throw in a few Elves. Find horses that make the Elves look Elvish. Find other Horses that look like Ponies; create entire "hairy pony suits", and don't let your horses (or Dwarves) collapse of heat stroke... I fear we have nothing here in the US that even approaches the Awesomeness That Is WETA.
Go outside and play...
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