Not only does he have a significant role in the LOTR trilogy, but you'll see him next summer as an intergalactic super-badass named Count Dooku (aka "Lord Tyranus") in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. Best known throughout the years as portrayer ofvillains (like Dracula) in a variety of generally unrespectable "B" movies(including the tragically awful Starship Invasions, one of my guilty pleasures), Lee may finally enter general public awareness in the coming year. Liv Tyler – who has endured more than a few snotty digs in previous reviews on this site – conveys surprising intensity and integrity during her brief appearance in Fellowship. While I doubt it will happen, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he received an Oscar nomination for this role. Ian McKellen (as Gandalf) is showstopping in both power and subtlety.
Perennial girly-man Elijah Wood – playing the besieged and often-baffled Frodo Baggins (a very little person charged with a very big undertaking) is pretty-much upstaged by everyone and everything around him, but that's the point ofhis character, so this isn't a criticism, per se. Jackson so effectively immerses us in his (remarkably accessible) on-screen world that, on the few occasions in which the film does slide towards expected genre trappings and clichés (like a character referring to another character as "So-and-So, son of So-and-So"), the moments seem incongruous and inorganic, and hit like a clap of thunder.įrodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) in Rivendale, a paradisiacal abode increasingly threatened by forces of unspeakable darkness. Director / co-screenwriter Peter Jackson infuses Fellowship with a great deal of "real world" edge and sensibility – bringing humanity to FOTR's characters, making its situations involving, and.above all.legitimizing a genre which frequently comes across as silly, distancing, gimmicky, and garish. For all of its imperfections, FOTR deftly succeeds in a few arenas in which other movies (ifnot all movies) of this type have previously failed.
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But, not to disparage Fellowship in any way, this accolade must be considered in-context – as 2001 is among the worst movie years in thehistory of the medium in many people's minds. Some reviews have called it "the best film of the year" – it probably is. There have been many reviews implying this is a perfectfilm – it is not. So, how does The Fellowship of the Ring (the first installment ofthe movie trilogy) play-out for those not strong enough to face The TolkienChallenge head-on? Pretty damn well. As such, when NewLine announced its daringly conceived, dangerously expensive cinematic adaptation of the literary trilogy, I was profoundly curious and interested – but not rabidly excited – to see how it all turned out. I was interested in them, and was even able to sense the appeal of them through Tolkien's vast smokescreen of exposition and minutiae, but they never "took".
My mom (and many people I know, for that matter) was always a big fan of the novels and tried to hook me on them for decades.
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