The Lord of the Rings...

[fajrdrako]

Spent the day watching The Lord of the Rings (extended edition) with maaseru, maaboroshi and lmondegreen. Because of all the snow, josanpq couldn't make it - drat! - but she phoned.

It's a wonderful New Year's Day tradition.

Sauron has fallen and all's right with the world.

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's Sean Bean. I thought he went without saying...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Good point!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I haven't found him all that attractive in anything else! Just Boromir!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

He made a lovely Romeo a number of years ago, at least from the pictures I've seen of it (the production was in England, and I'm in the US).

And a terrific Sharpe. Did anyone else think that scene in Rivendell with the broken sword and Boromir's line "still sharp?" was a terrible play on words?

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I should say that when I first saw the trailers for Fellowship I got all excited because I thought he was going to play Aragorn, and was utterly disappointed when I found out that he wasn't.

This disappointment only lasted until about thirty seconds into the Prancing Pony scene when I got my first eyeful of Viggo Mortensen, though [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I really can't picture Sean Bean playing Aragorn, much as I have loved Sean Bean in every role I've seen him in. But Viggo Mortensen, whom I'd never heard of before these movies - I can't imagine anyone playing Aragorn so well. It isn't his looks, though his lankiness helps. It's his style.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Yup. He really made that role his.

I hadn't seen him in anything before LotR, either.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I've liked Sean Bean in just about everything I've seen him in. He has presence. Boromir is my favourite of his roles because I love all the movies and his Boromir lives up to what Tolkien wrote, but I've also loved him as Sharpe and Mellors and Ulysses and so on. And the villain in that Tom Clancy movie - I don't really like Tom Clancy movies but I did like the Sean Bean villainy. (Was that Patriot Games?) And wasn't he also a villain in National Treasure 1, or am I making that up? A quick trip to IMDb will tell me.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Very few blonds sneak under my radar. I can count them on one hand.
Boromir I loved because he's Boromir, and my h/c complex kicks in. Also, when I made the mental image-shattering discovery that His Loveliness was probably blond, I started picturing him as rather like Sean-as-Boromir. So he's become my 'played by' image of Conrad!