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Fascination
Sep. 24th, 2003 10:30 pmI have been rewatching the special extended version of the Fellowship of the Ring, I am constantly amazed at the passion Peter Jackson and his team have in bringing Middle Earth to life, I don't think any other production crew will ever achieve the kind of dedication the LoTR team bring to the movies. It's true love I tell you.
The thing I love about the DVD is that it brings to life all the things that were edited to make the movie shorter. The scenes which were off kilter to me finally made sense, the tension between Aragorn and Boromir more real, more about Boromir's slow but inevitable fall and his begging Aragorn to prove, say that Men are not weak. It makes Boromir's death scene more poignant, in a sense it is Aragorn's failure and baptism, the mantle of responsibility and his fate is truly his.
Because of Viggo's fantastic performance I have constantly over looked Sean Bean's wonderful portrayal of a torn, flawed but in the end heroic Boromir. I love his Boromir so human, still struggling. Fine, fine actor.
And we move on now to my fascination over Galadriel's character. In a world predominantly male it is interesting to note that Galadriel is probably second only to Sauron in power but it never really occured to me how fascinatingly complex Galadriel is.
Galadriel is revered by all as the Lady of Light, as a creature of exquisite beauty and the paragon of good and yet, she is so easily seduced to its power to the evil by extension.
All shall love me and despair.
Such wonderful line.
Cate Blanchett captures Galadriel so well and I don't mind the increase of weight and intensity in the 'Mirror of Galadriel' scene it's just what that scene needs.
Lord of the Rings is a psychological piece, a brilliant one at that because even great goodness can be twisted to terrible evil and even normal characters have a capacity for it. The line between is more a blur.
I really wish I had more words to describe my fascination over Galadriel's complexity, her capacity to be just as evil or more than evil. In fact, I think I read somewhere that Galadriel was actually exiled from the undying lands because of a rebellion she was part of.
In a clearly male dominant world, Galadriel is a rebel, a powerful one at that and a ruler over her kind to boot you cannot beat that. Elrond may be king but he still answers to my Lady Galadriel!
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I have just acquired the last half of BtVS second season and the first half of the third season.
To my mind S2 and 3 where the tightest arcs ever, the following season's may have brilliant episodes but they don't have such a strong arc as the S2 and S3. The season enders and the two-parters in between can literally set your heart pounding. Relationships settled and unsettled, betrayals and ungodly surprises. These were the years our merry writers were not afraid to kill off any likeable, popular characters (as, say compared to season 7 Spike situation, sure killed in the end but they never took risks, real risks. Buffy making mistakes, scarred psychologically... such potential wasted).
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Jack and Irina? Damn. I may not like Sydney much but her parents kick ass. Irina ever complicated evil!spy mom and Jack, repressed but capable of such violence when unleashed and still so hopelessly in love with Irina. You can see how hard it is for him when Irina turned herself in to the CIA, the mistrust, the fear of losing Sydney, the fear of letting go and falling in love again with the woman who betrayed him.
And when he does finally let himself hope, let himself feel that hope that maybe Irina became good, the final blow. He falls into an elaborate trap, betrayed again and this time he only has himself to blame. For hoping, for loving, for believing.
I can only feel for him because even back in the beginning Sydney's first instinct is to mistrust him when all he wants to do is to protect her. And to be used like that after months of distrust and allowing himself....
Boy, I *love* Jack and Irina together they are so screwed-up!
The thing I love about the DVD is that it brings to life all the things that were edited to make the movie shorter. The scenes which were off kilter to me finally made sense, the tension between Aragorn and Boromir more real, more about Boromir's slow but inevitable fall and his begging Aragorn to prove, say that Men are not weak. It makes Boromir's death scene more poignant, in a sense it is Aragorn's failure and baptism, the mantle of responsibility and his fate is truly his.
Because of Viggo's fantastic performance I have constantly over looked Sean Bean's wonderful portrayal of a torn, flawed but in the end heroic Boromir. I love his Boromir so human, still struggling. Fine, fine actor.
And we move on now to my fascination over Galadriel's character. In a world predominantly male it is interesting to note that Galadriel is probably second only to Sauron in power but it never really occured to me how fascinatingly complex Galadriel is.
Galadriel is revered by all as the Lady of Light, as a creature of exquisite beauty and the paragon of good and yet, she is so easily seduced to its power to the evil by extension.
All shall love me and despair.
Such wonderful line.
Cate Blanchett captures Galadriel so well and I don't mind the increase of weight and intensity in the 'Mirror of Galadriel' scene it's just what that scene needs.
Lord of the Rings is a psychological piece, a brilliant one at that because even great goodness can be twisted to terrible evil and even normal characters have a capacity for it. The line between is more a blur.
I really wish I had more words to describe my fascination over Galadriel's complexity, her capacity to be just as evil or more than evil. In fact, I think I read somewhere that Galadriel was actually exiled from the undying lands because of a rebellion she was part of.
In a clearly male dominant world, Galadriel is a rebel, a powerful one at that and a ruler over her kind to boot you cannot beat that. Elrond may be king but he still answers to my Lady Galadriel!
----------
I have just acquired the last half of BtVS second season and the first half of the third season.
To my mind S2 and 3 where the tightest arcs ever, the following season's may have brilliant episodes but they don't have such a strong arc as the S2 and S3. The season enders and the two-parters in between can literally set your heart pounding. Relationships settled and unsettled, betrayals and ungodly surprises. These were the years our merry writers were not afraid to kill off any likeable, popular characters (as, say compared to season 7 Spike situation, sure killed in the end but they never took risks, real risks. Buffy making mistakes, scarred psychologically... such potential wasted).
-----
Jack and Irina? Damn. I may not like Sydney much but her parents kick ass. Irina ever complicated evil!spy mom and Jack, repressed but capable of such violence when unleashed and still so hopelessly in love with Irina. You can see how hard it is for him when Irina turned herself in to the CIA, the mistrust, the fear of losing Sydney, the fear of letting go and falling in love again with the woman who betrayed him.
And when he does finally let himself hope, let himself feel that hope that maybe Irina became good, the final blow. He falls into an elaborate trap, betrayed again and this time he only has himself to blame. For hoping, for loving, for believing.
I can only feel for him because even back in the beginning Sydney's first instinct is to mistrust him when all he wants to do is to protect her. And to be used like that after months of distrust and allowing himself....
Boy, I *love* Jack and Irina together they are so screwed-up!
