[ SECRET POST #2798 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2798 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Flawless Casting

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the Tolkien movie casting. I don't think Elijah was right, though he did work in the movie.

Really? I've heard that before, but as I saw the movies before reading the books, Elijah Wood was etched in my mind as Frodo. Who did you think would be right for Frodo?

I adored just about everyone in LOTR, but I have to give special props to Sean Astin, because I find Samwise really hard to take in the books, and yet he is just fabulous in the filmed version.

Re: Flawless Casting

[philstar22]

Someone older for starters. Elijah makes Frodo look like a teenager, which he is not at all in the books. He's Hobbit-youngish at the beginning, but by the time they set off he's as old as Bilbo was in the Hobbit.

Sean Astin is awesome. But I loved book!Sam as well.

Re: Flawless Casting

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, after I posted, I figured it would be someone older. Which, if I'd read the books first, might have been an issue for me. Book!Sam - perhaps it wasn't so much the character, but the class issues that seemed to be at play really irked me. He just came off as so obsequiously servile to me. I wanted to slap him to snap him out of it and tell Frodo to cook his own damn meals. :)

Re: Flawless Casting

[(Anonymous)]

SA (hit post instead of return), so P.S. Movie!Sam did much of the same things as book!Sam, and yet somehow Sean Astin made it work for me, and it seemed more that he was doing it because he really cared for Frodo as a friend, and less because Frodo was his 'better' and therefore he should look out for him. It just seemed that there was just a servant/master vibe in the book version of their relationship that I didn't care for. Which may be entirely my own perception.

Anyway, Sean Astin rocks!

Re: Flawless Casting

[philstar22]

Ah, and see I found Frodo annoying in those scenes. Like, every character but Sam was upper class, and no one else treated him like that. Frodo is not one of my favorite characters.

Re: Flawless Casting

[(Anonymous)]

You know, you're right, I should have been more annoyed at Frodo. But he just accepted that behaviour with oblivious ease. And as I identify more with the lower class, I just wanted to yell at Sam to have some pride and stop serving Frodo as if it were his only purpose in life.

Re: Flawless Casting

[(Anonymous)]

Frodo looks like a teenager because he stopped aging normally after Bilbo gave him the ring. There's, like, actual discussion about it in the first book and everything. Elijah spent far too much of the movies looking constipated for my tastes, but the age thing is a legit plot point.