Nifty acting things
Dec. 29th, 2002 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elabyI just watched this thing they had on the WB about the filming of The
Two Towers... was really cool. It makes me sorry I gave up acting, and
wonder what it would be like to actually film something as opposed to
being on stage... I always thought that I wouldn't be able to do it,
wouldn't be able to concentrate with a bunch of cameras and big fuzzy
microphones hanging over my head. But then I realized that I'd be in costume,
most likely on a beautiful set in the middle of an actual outside
place, with other people in costume. Instead of having to imagine that
I'm in the middle of the snow-filled forest and dressed in white silks
and furs, and that the kid I've got my hands all over is wearing a
British schoolboy outfit and that I actually have turkish delights in
my hand instead of an imaginary tin (and imaginary turkish delights
even on opening night), all I'd have to imagine would be that the
cameras and microphones weren't there.
Damn, that'd be great.
And
the big plus side to acting in a real movie instead of a high-school
theatre production would be that I wouldn't have to deal with juvenile
idiots making it miserable for the rest of us... although maybe I
would. Even adults can be juvenile idiots occasionally. But I can
dream, right? ;)
Lord of the Rings has gotten me in a
throttlehold, and I fear my fangirlness will not go away until I do
something rash, like write fanfic... Heaven help us all ;) Started Two
Towers over today and successfully got everyone back in my head the way
they're "supposed" to look, which somehow for the trilogy never
congealed in my mind. Still hasn't. But I've gotten away from them all
looking like the movie actors, at least... not that there's anything
wrong with the movie actors. They're all quite wonderful. My mind leans
most toward the old Rankin-Bass cartoon, in which Frodo and Sam still
stick (somehow I can't shake the all-hobbits-are-chubby image) and as
much as I adore how cuddlable Sam is in the movie, I just never in a
million years saw him as anything approaching blond. It's totally okay,
though. I think because I never got a completely perfect movie-picture
in my head of the way Lord of the Rings was supposed to look, I'm not
shocked when stuff in the actual film doesn't correspond with what I
thought I wanted it to look like. I went through about a million
stages. For a while Legolas looked the way the Wood Elves do in the
animated Hobbit - very Brian Froudian, which while utterly cool is not
pretty at all.
*there is a brief pause as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elaby's cats,
obviously bent on her destruction, pop open the magnet-held glass door
to the TV stand that houses the DVD player and position it at a
90-degree angle, in the dark, just soelaby can walk into it and rend
gashes in both her knee and foot*
*limps back after bandaid distribution*
As I was saying... Then Legolas looked a little like he did in the scary
version of Fellowship and Two Towers, which I barely remember except
that Legolas appeared instead of Glorfindel (or Arwen, movie-style) and
said, and I quote... "Van do, de nava do Dunadan! Maegovannan!" That's
probably horrific spelling, as I am doing it from memory. That and the
fact that Aragorn had no pants. And I think Boromir wore a viking
helmet. Very amusing. But Legolas was blond and even though he wore
blueish instead of brown and green, the color of his clothing being one
of the only things actually described about him in the book, he looked
bishounen-elfy enough. Or so I remember it. I could be wrong. Anyway...
I thought of him looking like that for short enough time before I went
back to an mix between lithe Froud-style wireyness and... well, anime.
And then everyone went vaguely anime for a while, and then they all
kept shifting phase so they were realistic-ish... you see what I mean.
No constant image. Which I guess makes it so I can enjoy the movies
without worry ^_^
My train of thought has seriously wandered, faltered, and otherwise lost all creativity... hehehe... I'm through now.
Two Towers... was really cool. It makes me sorry I gave up acting, and
wonder what it would be like to actually film something as opposed to
being on stage... I always thought that I wouldn't be able to do it,
wouldn't be able to concentrate with a bunch of cameras and big fuzzy
microphones hanging over my head. But then I realized that I'd be in costume,
most likely on a beautiful set in the middle of an actual outside
place, with other people in costume. Instead of having to imagine that
I'm in the middle of the snow-filled forest and dressed in white silks
and furs, and that the kid I've got my hands all over is wearing a
British schoolboy outfit and that I actually have turkish delights in
my hand instead of an imaginary tin (and imaginary turkish delights
even on opening night), all I'd have to imagine would be that the
cameras and microphones weren't there.
Damn, that'd be great.
And
the big plus side to acting in a real movie instead of a high-school
theatre production would be that I wouldn't have to deal with juvenile
idiots making it miserable for the rest of us... although maybe I
would. Even adults can be juvenile idiots occasionally. But I can
dream, right? ;)
Lord of the Rings has gotten me in a
throttlehold, and I fear my fangirlness will not go away until I do
something rash, like write fanfic... Heaven help us all ;) Started Two
Towers over today and successfully got everyone back in my head the way
they're "supposed" to look, which somehow for the trilogy never
congealed in my mind. Still hasn't. But I've gotten away from them all
looking like the movie actors, at least... not that there's anything
wrong with the movie actors. They're all quite wonderful. My mind leans
most toward the old Rankin-Bass cartoon, in which Frodo and Sam still
stick (somehow I can't shake the all-hobbits-are-chubby image) and as
much as I adore how cuddlable Sam is in the movie, I just never in a
million years saw him as anything approaching blond. It's totally okay,
though. I think because I never got a completely perfect movie-picture
in my head of the way Lord of the Rings was supposed to look, I'm not
shocked when stuff in the actual film doesn't correspond with what I
thought I wanted it to look like. I went through about a million
stages. For a while Legolas looked the way the Wood Elves do in the
animated Hobbit - very Brian Froudian, which while utterly cool is not
pretty at all.
*there is a brief pause as
elaby's cats,obviously bent on her destruction, pop open the magnet-held glass door
to the TV stand that houses the DVD player and position it at a
90-degree angle, in the dark, just so
elaby can walk into it and rendgashes in both her knee and foot*
*limps back after bandaid distribution*
As I was saying... Then Legolas looked a little like he did in the scary
version of Fellowship and Two Towers, which I barely remember except
that Legolas appeared instead of Glorfindel (or Arwen, movie-style) and
said, and I quote... "Van do, de nava do Dunadan! Maegovannan!" That's
probably horrific spelling, as I am doing it from memory. That and the
fact that Aragorn had no pants. And I think Boromir wore a viking
helmet. Very amusing. But Legolas was blond and even though he wore
blueish instead of brown and green, the color of his clothing being one
of the only things actually described about him in the book, he looked
bishounen-elfy enough. Or so I remember it. I could be wrong. Anyway...
I thought of him looking like that for short enough time before I went
back to an mix between lithe Froud-style wireyness and... well, anime.
And then everyone went vaguely anime for a while, and then they all
kept shifting phase so they were realistic-ish... you see what I mean.
No constant image. Which I guess makes it so I can enjoy the movies
without worry ^_^
My train of thought has seriously wandered, faltered, and otherwise lost all creativity... hehehe... I'm through now.
