girl with curious hair (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kiltsandlollies) wrote,@ 2008-07-18 09:00:00 |
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[concerning hobbits]
So it's been a while since we've had a hobbit show of affection. Let's get on that. Be warned: there are a ton of pictures under here, and I'm not exactly terse about my thoughts on them. I know this comes as a surprise. I don't know that I'd risk opening this on dialup, unless I clicked and then went to make dinner or something. Sorries.
Sam: hoshit, redhead, twelve o'clock.
Frodo: she doesn't like cabbage; we're cool.
Pippin: BUT THE CARROTS ACK MY CARROTS ARE IN DANGER.
Merry: oh my god I just want to be able to BREATHE. *SNEEZES*
Frodo: and THEN omg, Lobelia sent me this moth-ridden sweater for the holidays, and Bilbo's drinking again like nobody's business, and I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE BACK OMG PLS SLAP SOME SENSE INTO THE SHIRE, K?
Gandalf: *sigh*
Elijah's so soft throughout Fellowship, isn't he? I mean, I know it's mostly intentional, being that Frodo's pretty soft at that point, too, but Elijah's almost lush in the film, just absolutely pinchable, and the way he's lit through the first hour or so just makes you want to touch the screen to see if he really does feel that peach-skin velvety.
I should maybe add a caveat that very, very little of this spam is going to make actual sense. You take that as a given now, though, right? Good.
I've already written multiple times in these things about how this picture (and many of the frames while they're singing) illustrate perfectly how no one else might as well be in the room when Dominic and Billy are like this, as themselves or as Merry and Pippin. What I love best is that this is clearly Merry and Pippin having a lovely time at the Green Dragon, but it's also very, very much Billy and Dominic. This little scene shows some of the deepest affection in all three films, to my mind, and that's a reflection on the actors and their friendship and bond. I do love them so.
DOES IT HAVE TO BE HUMAN? DOES IT HAVE TO BE MINE?—oh, wait, wrong movie.
THIS IS MY ALMOST DETERMINED FACE! He's just so fluffy and perfect. And again, I've said it before elsewhere, but his is the wig I believed, you know. It just works for him. But then I do have a thing for foofy hair on Elijah.
Well, fine. If Frodo has to do everything around here, he's gonna do it looking so awesomely adorable you'd have to search continents for an infant half as cute, dammit. Also, mind those eyelashes don't sweep you into the sea omfg.
Poor Sam, resigned to a holiday smoking up in the woods and hanging out with a really, really good-looking young man—wait, this is not nearly as awful as he first thought.
OR AT LEAST IT WASN'T UNTIL ABBOT AND COSTELLO JOINED THE PARTY DAMMIT WE DID NOT REQUEST A FOURSOME. And fandom says, well, what about our needs, Gamgee?
Dude. Frodo. I've been in the shit before, yanno; just ask half the damn Shire. I can run to the break of dawn, but I really like to know WHO THE EVERLOVING FUCK I'M RUNNING FROM. I mean seriously, HORSES? Do you have OATS AND HAY DOWN YOUR PANTS?
... maybe?
Frodo: scuse me scuse me hello?
Sam: That'll do it, Mr. Frodo. Big folk love it when we come in all meek, like.
Merry: I am wet. And cold. And probably disinherited by now.
Pippin: OI YOU OVER THERE WITH THE ALE AND BREASTS C'MERE.
Did I mention the eyelashes? Ouch. OUCH. I am surprised audiences everywhere didn't report having to move back three rows in the cinema every time Elijah blinked.
DAMMIT FRODO DON'T MAKE ME STICK A GPS DOWN YOUR PANTS.
HOSHIT NORMALLY I JUST START RUNNING NOW BUT THAT WOULD MEAN LEAVING MAH PINT.
Hours later, Merry still can't breathe. Poor darling. oh good god how cute is Dominic. how.
must ... save ... dream ... cabbages ...!
mmmmzzzz breasts and ale.
Aragorn: yammer yammer they're gonna getcha etc., etc.
Frodo: you are not half as comforting as I bet you think you are, dude.
Merry: HELLO, RANGER. I could maybe undress if you think it would help.
Pippin: if we're doomed, I am drinking first, y'all.
Sam: I REFUSE TO DIE WITH ABBOT AND COSTELLO, YO.
Elijah: must remember to look vulnerable and adorable. Not exactly a stretch.
Dominic: must remember to—GAH I FORGET WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER.
Billy: must remember to forget everything I actually know how to do and not use this damn sword properly to kill my castmates, the stuntmen, and half the crew.
Astin: must remember to act as if I am wetting my pants and not thinking OMG STAY AWAY FROM ELIJAH OR I CUT YOU OMG.
seriously, I love Billy's face here. He's so very wee, but he will FUCK. YOUR. SHIT. UP.
Day 3 of Elijah Gives Up Coffee. That's not gone well.
Obvious pickup shots in Fellowship make me itch omg. Billy's the worst offender here, but the wigs are all awful themselves; they look as if they've been in shoeboxes for six months and never shaken out before they were thumped on top of the hobbits' lovely heads. But good god, BILLY. I love you like burning, but you're not allowed to age five years between pickups omg.
ALRIGHT. WHO WANTS SAMMICHES. We've made it this far up into the mountains without Boromir keeping the ring or Legolas kebabing Gimli or Pippin, like, setting fire to something, so IT'S SAMMICH TIME.
Billy: *is freezing*
Astin: *is tired*
Dominic: *has just had another cake batter sick episode*
Elijah: FFS, DUDE, THESE WERE NEW SHOES.
Right, I'll just straight up admit that I have no purpose uploading this other than to stare at it for several minutes. Oh dear god, Billy. You are forgiven for whatever you get up to before pickups.
I've spammed this every time I've done anything having to do with the hobbits in general, but it's because it works. Astin gets it the most right between himself, Dominic, and Billy (really, don't get me started on Billy's work right here). He absolutely nails this little moment, and I say that as someone who's not a fan, so.
And oh, Elijah. Anything I could say would diminish it, so we'll just let this speak for itself. He's beautiful.
And here Billy's recovered from that momentary screech of a needle across the Pippin record. There are lovelier shots of him from this scene, but this one really shows how crushed Pippin is, I think, and of course, I cannot get enough of his hands. You know, I don't think Billy's Pippin ever sleeps properly again through the story, even after they know Gandalf's alive, until they're back in the Shire. In the scene where Pippin takes the Palantir from Gandalf, just before he goes to take it, there's a shot of Pippin—and it'll be here, hang on—looking absolutely wrecked in sleeplessness, and I call that more than just the Palantir's effect.
I did mention that none of this would make sense. *cough*
THIS IS NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION SAFE, IS IT. FAAACK.
Billy's work as Pippin in the scenes of Boromir's death is amazing and sad and lovely. Again, there are more beautiful shots of him than this, but I'm spammed them to death, and this captures the numbness, the powerlessness, just right. He looks very fragile here, which I suppose is easy for Billy to get across on screen, but it hurts my heart a little bit.
Elijah says it's Two Towers time, my bitches. Pass the lembas on the left hand side. I didn't look for that many pictures from TTT, because caps don't translate that well from this film, especially ones of Frodo and Sam. So there's a whole bunch of Merry and Pippin here.
DOM WAKE UP I REFUSE TO BE FILMED IN THIS CRAP WIG BY MYSELF. And oh, my friends, what a crap wig it is. Check your DVDs and weep with me. It's so tightly curled it's ridiculous.
Given the opportunity to spend entire days in a bicycle seat while listening to John Rhys Davies drone on and getting slightly high off faux tree bark, you'd look as fucked up as Billy too, I'm sure. <3
Someone forgot to tell Elijah that in order for the prank to really work he should have made off with Dominic's clothes after he drugged him. I'm just saying. And I can't imagine Dominic would have minded, or found anything that unsual about waking up naked somewhere strange.
SILLY GIRL! AS IF WE NEEDED HIM COMPLETELY NAKED FOR ANYTHIN' WE GOT UP TO.
*patented Monaghan face of Damn, I Hope There's Video*
*patented Astin face of Oh God, Please Don't Let Andy Rip My Scalp Off Again*
Wibblecakes! Oh, Elijah. Who wibbles like you do? No one in the wibbling world. The scenes of Frodo pleading with Faramir must have been such a bitch to act. The dialogue's not great, and it's hard to really feel sorry for anyone, but Elijah really does give it a go. *pets his head*
*keymash* Much more Billy than Pippin, but utterly gorgeous. *GAZE* Oh, to be able to pull off a costume so beautifully. In this case, WITH MY BARE HANDS. Did I just use my inside voice? I totally did, didn't I.
Oh my god, Dominic. Thank you for knocking this out of the park. Thank you, Peter, for just letting him, dammit, even if you didn't do it very often otherwise.
You'll never see Pippin look older in TTT. Another shot that's almost too close to Billy to be Pippin, but it still works. And unlike in previous spams, I'm not even going to get into Billy's Most Awesome Razor Burn Ever.
*KEYMASH*
Dude, Smeagol, you can't be all DON'T LOOK AT THE LIGHTS, MAAAASTER and shit and then go jumping into funky rivers yourself, okay? Because I am not going in there after you. My hair is perfect.
What are you doing? What are you thinking! Dammit, I'm about to get that freaking sword all up in my chin again, aren't I. THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU, FRODO.
Billy: so if I want to go left, I pull the branch right, and if—
Peter: STOP SWISHING.
Billy: LOOK, D'YOU THINK I WANTED THIS HAIR?
Look at his sweet little determined face. <3xfrillions.
Day 7 without caffeine, and Astin makes the mistake of leaving a packet of instant coffee in his vest.
GODDAMMIT SEAN IT'S DECAF WHY YOU GOTTA BE LIKE THAT.
Sam: Because there's still some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it ain't found in some dirty coffee mug.
Laura and Frodo as Angel Choir of One: THEN YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG MUG, MATE.
Holy holy everything. You know, I have to imagine the whole lighting and cinematography team rolling on the floor in spasms of THANK YOU CHOSEN DEITY whenever they had to work with footage of Elijah. Because seriously, what a dream of a face, what brilliant eyes. I mean, I'll ask my bit on the side Andrew Lesnie when I next tackle him, but come on.
ROTK TIME, KIDS. SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM! his little faaaaaaace.
Dominic is happy to demonstrate technique. In between retching and sneezing. \o/
Even under all that muck, he has the same peachiness, that lush velvety thing happening that Elijah had in FOTR. And that's not the Pippin who kept cocking things up in FOTR; that's someone who for just that moment knows he shouldn't have what he has and doesn't care. It's easy later I think for "I can't help it" to tumble out of Billy/Pippin's mouth, but right here he definitely could help it, but definitely didn't want to.
Again with the lack of sense, people. I did warn you. Anway. I love that look in his eyes.
I've mentioned a few times that this moment between Pippin and Gandalf / Billy and Ian just blew my mind in the cinema and still does on the DVDs. They were lucky enough to have as many scenes together as they did, but being me, I wish there were more, and I wish I could have been a fly on the wall as they talked through those scenes before and after filming them. This is one of very few times a pickups shot works, and hurts, and feels right. There's so, so much Billy in this Pippin, and it works. On a more technical note, this lighting is just gorgeous for Billy.
Wrecked, as I said above. Curled up and caught and wrecked and greedy in a way he never was in the Shire for silly things and amusement. Greedy and scared and wrecked. Mmrrrrr.
OI, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOIN' FOR A WEE, PIP. GET BACK DOWN HERE AND SLEEP.
Yet another echo: I've said before that I hate this scene in the book. I was ecstatic that Billy pulled it off for me (right up until the upright thrashing before he hits the floor; I don't buy that small bit, but that may be because of the music and lighting more than what Billy's doing himself) and made me want to believe and guess at what was happening. And I hated Merry's impotent little "Pippin! PIPPIN!" noises. I wanted him to get up and DO something, and believe he would have, but then I am not Peter Jackson, and so. *hands*
DOMINIC HATED THEM, TOO. Clearly.
DAY TEN NO CAFFEINE STOP HATE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING FULL STOP.
Is there a more perfect profile? No, there isn't. I brook no argument. Moving on.
IMMA GIT A SWORD IMMA GIT A SWORD \o/ As Ian is to Billy, Bernard is to Dominic. Oh, to have been there for rehearsals. Those two must have had the fastest, snarkiest, most wonderful chats. <33333
Astin: MUTHAFUCKAAAAAAAAH! *cuts*
Peter: okay, maybe with a little less AAAAAH next time.
Astin: *pants*
Oh, don't worry, Mr. Frodo. Even if you have been a COMPLETE ASSHAT for the last, like, YEAR if feels like, I still love you like a rock, dude. Now for the love of Eru, let's get your pale, skinny ass dressed, kthx.
Aaaaaand this is the most adorable thing that ever adorabled in the history of adorable things.
DAY THIRTEEN. HATE—oh god, just gimme some damn decaf already. And some lip balm, jesus.
Pippin: holy shit we're all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiie.
Gandalf: OH DO SHUT UP.
So apparently at some point in this scene on the DVDs you can see Billy's trainers as they cut to a wider shot. I haven't noticed them, but maybe that's because I'm like HOLY CRAP PIPPIN YOUR HAIR. @____@
Oh, Dominic. *sigh* You om nom nom your way through that scene, baby. You do whatever you have to do.
Because honestly, you're lovely. You're absolutely lovely.
Yes, I am going to run three straight shots of this, because it's worth it. I think I might torn a hole through the seat's upholstery when I was watching this in the cinema. I never at any point cried during ROTK, but this scene was wrenching and at the same happy and perfect and everything I wanted.
I mean, look at him.
*rare moment of silence*
A signiicant amount of Billy in this Pippin, too. I'm going to spare you where I thought his head might have gone preparing for this scene, but oh my.
I maintain that Dominic's saying "Are you going to bury me?" on the atcual screen, and in ADR or whatever it's called, they changed it. And I further maintain that that should never have happened. I am not one of those fans who's enjoyed the films for what the films have brought them in terms of social interaction or actor-love and the chance to have a bit of fun, while also raking the filmmakers over constant, snide coals. I am one of the fans who feels intensely about a very, very few things she wishes had been changed, and the theft of Dominic's performance is high among those very few things. Or perhaps you already knew that. I'm just so subtle about things, you know, so I have no idea.
HEY NO YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T GONNA BE AN ASSHAT ANYMORE
DUDE. FRODO. WHAT SAM SAID.
WHATEVER. MY BLING. MINE. MY OWN. SUCK IT.
Okay, so remember when the first trailers for ROTK came out and ended with Sam yelling NOOOO? I have no problem admitting that I was like oh god, bring it, this is going to be so awesome—just from that little moment. All that fire and brimstone behind him as he shouts. I was READY, people.
My god, I weep again for the wigs. *shudder*
ho ho ho, my bitches. ya miss me? THOUGHT SO.
Not enough to, like, feed me or anything, though, apparently. In all seriousness, I'm so thrilled by how Elijah handled the end of ROTK. I felt every moment from the return to the Shire until that mawkish smile on the ship to the Grey Havens. The smile struck such a cloying note, but everything else he did was perfection.
Frodo's saying goodbye, but he's been gone for ages. Look at those eyes.
And then there were these. Out of film chronology order, but where I want them to be, here. No comments, just them.
They are made of awesome, brilliant, and soft greatness. They're why I came here, one of the reasons I stay here, and a whole lot more besides. Cheers to you, hobbits, and massive amounts of love.
So it's been a while since we've had a hobbit show of affection. Let's get on that. Be warned: there are a ton of pictures under here, and I'm not exactly terse about my thoughts on them. I know this comes as a surprise. I don't know that I'd risk opening this on dialup, unless I clicked and then went to make dinner or something. Sorries.
Sam: hoshit, redhead, twelve o'clock.
Frodo: she doesn't like cabbage; we're cool.
Pippin: BUT THE CARROTS ACK MY CARROTS ARE IN DANGER.
Merry: oh my god I just want to be able to BREATHE. *SNEEZES*
Frodo: and THEN omg, Lobelia sent me this moth-ridden sweater for the holidays, and Bilbo's drinking again like nobody's business, and I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE BACK OMG PLS SLAP SOME SENSE INTO THE SHIRE, K?
Gandalf: *sigh*
Elijah's so soft throughout Fellowship, isn't he? I mean, I know it's mostly intentional, being that Frodo's pretty soft at that point, too, but Elijah's almost lush in the film, just absolutely pinchable, and the way he's lit through the first hour or so just makes you want to touch the screen to see if he really does feel that peach-skin velvety.
I should maybe add a caveat that very, very little of this spam is going to make actual sense. You take that as a given now, though, right? Good.
I've already written multiple times in these things about how this picture (and many of the frames while they're singing) illustrate perfectly how no one else might as well be in the room when Dominic and Billy are like this, as themselves or as Merry and Pippin. What I love best is that this is clearly Merry and Pippin having a lovely time at the Green Dragon, but it's also very, very much Billy and Dominic. This little scene shows some of the deepest affection in all three films, to my mind, and that's a reflection on the actors and their friendship and bond. I do love them so.
DOES IT HAVE TO BE HUMAN? DOES IT HAVE TO BE MINE?—oh, wait, wrong movie.
THIS IS MY ALMOST DETERMINED FACE! He's just so fluffy and perfect. And again, I've said it before elsewhere, but his is the wig I believed, you know. It just works for him. But then I do have a thing for foofy hair on Elijah.
Well, fine. If Frodo has to do everything around here, he's gonna do it looking so awesomely adorable you'd have to search continents for an infant half as cute, dammit. Also, mind those eyelashes don't sweep you into the sea omfg.
Poor Sam, resigned to a holiday smoking up in the woods and hanging out with a really, really good-looking young man—wait, this is not nearly as awful as he first thought.
OR AT LEAST IT WASN'T UNTIL ABBOT AND COSTELLO JOINED THE PARTY DAMMIT WE DID NOT REQUEST A FOURSOME. And fandom says, well, what about our needs, Gamgee?
Dude. Frodo. I've been in the shit before, yanno; just ask half the damn Shire. I can run to the break of dawn, but I really like to know WHO THE EVERLOVING FUCK I'M RUNNING FROM. I mean seriously, HORSES? Do you have OATS AND HAY DOWN YOUR PANTS?
... maybe?
Frodo: scuse me scuse me hello?
Sam: That'll do it, Mr. Frodo. Big folk love it when we come in all meek, like.
Merry: I am wet. And cold. And probably disinherited by now.
Pippin: OI YOU OVER THERE WITH THE ALE AND BREASTS C'MERE.
Did I mention the eyelashes? Ouch. OUCH. I am surprised audiences everywhere didn't report having to move back three rows in the cinema every time Elijah blinked.
DAMMIT FRODO DON'T MAKE ME STICK A GPS DOWN YOUR PANTS.
HOSHIT NORMALLY I JUST START RUNNING NOW BUT THAT WOULD MEAN LEAVING MAH PINT.
Hours later, Merry still can't breathe. Poor darling. oh good god how cute is Dominic. how.
must ... save ... dream ... cabbages ...!
mmmmzzzz breasts and ale.
Aragorn: yammer yammer they're gonna getcha etc., etc.
Frodo: you are not half as comforting as I bet you think you are, dude.
Merry: HELLO, RANGER. I could maybe undress if you think it would help.
Pippin: if we're doomed, I am drinking first, y'all.
Sam: I REFUSE TO DIE WITH ABBOT AND COSTELLO, YO.
Elijah: must remember to look vulnerable and adorable. Not exactly a stretch.
Dominic: must remember to—GAH I FORGET WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER.
Billy: must remember to forget everything I actually know how to do and not use this damn sword properly to kill my castmates, the stuntmen, and half the crew.
Astin: must remember to act as if I am wetting my pants and not thinking OMG STAY AWAY FROM ELIJAH OR I CUT YOU OMG.
seriously, I love Billy's face here. He's so very wee, but he will FUCK. YOUR. SHIT. UP.
Day 3 of Elijah Gives Up Coffee. That's not gone well.
Obvious pickup shots in Fellowship make me itch omg. Billy's the worst offender here, but the wigs are all awful themselves; they look as if they've been in shoeboxes for six months and never shaken out before they were thumped on top of the hobbits' lovely heads. But good god, BILLY. I love you like burning, but you're not allowed to age five years between pickups omg.
ALRIGHT. WHO WANTS SAMMICHES. We've made it this far up into the mountains without Boromir keeping the ring or Legolas kebabing Gimli or Pippin, like, setting fire to something, so IT'S SAMMICH TIME.
Billy: *is freezing*
Astin: *is tired*
Dominic: *has just had another cake batter sick episode*
Elijah: FFS, DUDE, THESE WERE NEW SHOES.
Right, I'll just straight up admit that I have no purpose uploading this other than to stare at it for several minutes. Oh dear god, Billy. You are forgiven for whatever you get up to before pickups.
I've spammed this every time I've done anything having to do with the hobbits in general, but it's because it works. Astin gets it the most right between himself, Dominic, and Billy (really, don't get me started on Billy's work right here). He absolutely nails this little moment, and I say that as someone who's not a fan, so.
And oh, Elijah. Anything I could say would diminish it, so we'll just let this speak for itself. He's beautiful.
And here Billy's recovered from that momentary screech of a needle across the Pippin record. There are lovelier shots of him from this scene, but this one really shows how crushed Pippin is, I think, and of course, I cannot get enough of his hands. You know, I don't think Billy's Pippin ever sleeps properly again through the story, even after they know Gandalf's alive, until they're back in the Shire. In the scene where Pippin takes the Palantir from Gandalf, just before he goes to take it, there's a shot of Pippin—and it'll be here, hang on—looking absolutely wrecked in sleeplessness, and I call that more than just the Palantir's effect.
I did mention that none of this would make sense. *cough*
THIS IS NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION SAFE, IS IT. FAAACK.
Billy's work as Pippin in the scenes of Boromir's death is amazing and sad and lovely. Again, there are more beautiful shots of him than this, but I'm spammed them to death, and this captures the numbness, the powerlessness, just right. He looks very fragile here, which I suppose is easy for Billy to get across on screen, but it hurts my heart a little bit.
Elijah says it's Two Towers time, my bitches. Pass the lembas on the left hand side. I didn't look for that many pictures from TTT, because caps don't translate that well from this film, especially ones of Frodo and Sam. So there's a whole bunch of Merry and Pippin here.
DOM WAKE UP I REFUSE TO BE FILMED IN THIS CRAP WIG BY MYSELF. And oh, my friends, what a crap wig it is. Check your DVDs and weep with me. It's so tightly curled it's ridiculous.
Given the opportunity to spend entire days in a bicycle seat while listening to John Rhys Davies drone on and getting slightly high off faux tree bark, you'd look as fucked up as Billy too, I'm sure. <3
Someone forgot to tell Elijah that in order for the prank to really work he should have made off with Dominic's clothes after he drugged him. I'm just saying. And I can't imagine Dominic would have minded, or found anything that unsual about waking up naked somewhere strange.
SILLY GIRL! AS IF WE NEEDED HIM COMPLETELY NAKED FOR ANYTHIN' WE GOT UP TO.
*patented Monaghan face of Damn, I Hope There's Video*
*patented Astin face of Oh God, Please Don't Let Andy Rip My Scalp Off Again*
Wibblecakes! Oh, Elijah. Who wibbles like you do? No one in the wibbling world. The scenes of Frodo pleading with Faramir must have been such a bitch to act. The dialogue's not great, and it's hard to really feel sorry for anyone, but Elijah really does give it a go. *pets his head*
*keymash* Much more Billy than Pippin, but utterly gorgeous. *GAZE* Oh, to be able to pull off a costume so beautifully. In this case, WITH MY BARE HANDS. Did I just use my inside voice? I totally did, didn't I.
Oh my god, Dominic. Thank you for knocking this out of the park. Thank you, Peter, for just letting him, dammit, even if you didn't do it very often otherwise.
You'll never see Pippin look older in TTT. Another shot that's almost too close to Billy to be Pippin, but it still works. And unlike in previous spams, I'm not even going to get into Billy's Most Awesome Razor Burn Ever.
*KEYMASH*
Dude, Smeagol, you can't be all DON'T LOOK AT THE LIGHTS, MAAAASTER and shit and then go jumping into funky rivers yourself, okay? Because I am not going in there after you. My hair is perfect.
What are you doing? What are you thinking! Dammit, I'm about to get that freaking sword all up in my chin again, aren't I. THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU, FRODO.
Billy: so if I want to go left, I pull the branch right, and if—
Peter: STOP SWISHING.
Billy: LOOK, D'YOU THINK I WANTED THIS HAIR?
Look at his sweet little determined face. <3xfrillions.
Day 7 without caffeine, and Astin makes the mistake of leaving a packet of instant coffee in his vest.
GODDAMMIT SEAN IT'S DECAF WHY YOU GOTTA BE LIKE THAT.
Sam: Because there's still some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it ain't found in some dirty coffee mug.
Laura and Frodo as Angel Choir of One: THEN YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG MUG, MATE.
Holy holy everything. You know, I have to imagine the whole lighting and cinematography team rolling on the floor in spasms of THANK YOU CHOSEN DEITY whenever they had to work with footage of Elijah. Because seriously, what a dream of a face, what brilliant eyes. I mean, I'll ask my bit on the side Andrew Lesnie when I next tackle him, but come on.
ROTK TIME, KIDS. SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM! his little faaaaaaace.
Dominic is happy to demonstrate technique. In between retching and sneezing. \o/
Even under all that muck, he has the same peachiness, that lush velvety thing happening that Elijah had in FOTR. And that's not the Pippin who kept cocking things up in FOTR; that's someone who for just that moment knows he shouldn't have what he has and doesn't care. It's easy later I think for "I can't help it" to tumble out of Billy/Pippin's mouth, but right here he definitely could help it, but definitely didn't want to.
Again with the lack of sense, people. I did warn you. Anway. I love that look in his eyes.
I've mentioned a few times that this moment between Pippin and Gandalf / Billy and Ian just blew my mind in the cinema and still does on the DVDs. They were lucky enough to have as many scenes together as they did, but being me, I wish there were more, and I wish I could have been a fly on the wall as they talked through those scenes before and after filming them. This is one of very few times a pickups shot works, and hurts, and feels right. There's so, so much Billy in this Pippin, and it works. On a more technical note, this lighting is just gorgeous for Billy.
Wrecked, as I said above. Curled up and caught and wrecked and greedy in a way he never was in the Shire for silly things and amusement. Greedy and scared and wrecked. Mmrrrrr.
OI, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOIN' FOR A WEE, PIP. GET BACK DOWN HERE AND SLEEP.
Yet another echo: I've said before that I hate this scene in the book. I was ecstatic that Billy pulled it off for me (right up until the upright thrashing before he hits the floor; I don't buy that small bit, but that may be because of the music and lighting more than what Billy's doing himself) and made me want to believe and guess at what was happening. And I hated Merry's impotent little "Pippin! PIPPIN!" noises. I wanted him to get up and DO something, and believe he would have, but then I am not Peter Jackson, and so. *hands*
DOMINIC HATED THEM, TOO. Clearly.
DAY TEN NO CAFFEINE STOP HATE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING FULL STOP.
Is there a more perfect profile? No, there isn't. I brook no argument. Moving on.
IMMA GIT A SWORD IMMA GIT A SWORD \o/ As Ian is to Billy, Bernard is to Dominic. Oh, to have been there for rehearsals. Those two must have had the fastest, snarkiest, most wonderful chats. <33333
Astin: MUTHAFUCKAAAAAAAAH! *cuts*
Peter: okay, maybe with a little less AAAAAH next time.
Astin: *pants*
Oh, don't worry, Mr. Frodo. Even if you have been a COMPLETE ASSHAT for the last, like, YEAR if feels like, I still love you like a rock, dude. Now for the love of Eru, let's get your pale, skinny ass dressed, kthx.
Aaaaaand this is the most adorable thing that ever adorabled in the history of adorable things.
DAY THIRTEEN. HATE—oh god, just gimme some damn decaf already. And some lip balm, jesus.
Pippin: holy shit we're all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiie.
Gandalf: OH DO SHUT UP.
So apparently at some point in this scene on the DVDs you can see Billy's trainers as they cut to a wider shot. I haven't noticed them, but maybe that's because I'm like HOLY CRAP PIPPIN YOUR HAIR. @____@
Oh, Dominic. *sigh* You om nom nom your way through that scene, baby. You do whatever you have to do.
Because honestly, you're lovely. You're absolutely lovely.
Yes, I am going to run three straight shots of this, because it's worth it. I think I might torn a hole through the seat's upholstery when I was watching this in the cinema. I never at any point cried during ROTK, but this scene was wrenching and at the same happy and perfect and everything I wanted.
I mean, look at him.
*rare moment of silence*
A signiicant amount of Billy in this Pippin, too. I'm going to spare you where I thought his head might have gone preparing for this scene, but oh my.
I maintain that Dominic's saying "Are you going to bury me?" on the atcual screen, and in ADR or whatever it's called, they changed it. And I further maintain that that should never have happened. I am not one of those fans who's enjoyed the films for what the films have brought them in terms of social interaction or actor-love and the chance to have a bit of fun, while also raking the filmmakers over constant, snide coals. I am one of the fans who feels intensely about a very, very few things she wishes had been changed, and the theft of Dominic's performance is high among those very few things. Or perhaps you already knew that. I'm just so subtle about things, you know, so I have no idea.
HEY NO YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T GONNA BE AN ASSHAT ANYMORE
DUDE. FRODO. WHAT SAM SAID.
WHATEVER. MY BLING. MINE. MY OWN. SUCK IT.
Okay, so remember when the first trailers for ROTK came out and ended with Sam yelling NOOOO? I have no problem admitting that I was like oh god, bring it, this is going to be so awesome—just from that little moment. All that fire and brimstone behind him as he shouts. I was READY, people.
My god, I weep again for the wigs. *shudder*
ho ho ho, my bitches. ya miss me? THOUGHT SO.
Not enough to, like, feed me or anything, though, apparently. In all seriousness, I'm so thrilled by how Elijah handled the end of ROTK. I felt every moment from the return to the Shire until that mawkish smile on the ship to the Grey Havens. The smile struck such a cloying note, but everything else he did was perfection.
Frodo's saying goodbye, but he's been gone for ages. Look at those eyes.
And then there were these. Out of film chronology order, but where I want them to be, here. No comments, just them.
They are made of awesome, brilliant, and soft greatness. They're why I came here, one of the reasons I stay here, and a whole lot more besides. Cheers to you, hobbits, and massive amounts of love.
