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Footage Recap... oh man.
Day Two – Press
Screening and Cast Interviews
I arrived at the
Olympia 2 here in Cannes for the 10am screening of the Fellowship of
the Ring footage. Outside of the theater were really cool black and
white photo-portraits of some of the cast from LOTR, hopefully I’ll
be able to post those pictures soon. Once I checked in with
publicity I went into a very nice theater; complete with leather
seating! For these LOTR screenings New Line had brought in nearly a
half a million dollars worth of speakers for a total audio
experience.
New Line’s Bob Shaye and Peter Jackson
introduced the screening. Peter told us that the footage wasn’t
complete yet and that there was temp music in the beginning and end
of this 20-minute segment. The middle section, for the Mines of
Moria sequence, actually had some of the score from Howard Shore. I
was interested to see how it would sound, as the music for LOTR
should be incredibly special. (you know how when you hear music from
Braveheart or Last of the Mohicans and you can tell exactly where it
was from in the movie… I want that kind of experience with LOTR’s
music). Peter also said we would be treated to a montage of scenes
from The Two Towers and Return of the King at the very end of this
footage. I’m already getting that spidey-sense tingle that this is
really gonna be cool….
Peter Jackson ends with “Thank you
very much all for coming” and the lights dim. Hey it’s the New Line
Cinema logo. Wow this is gonna kick ass I think. The temp music
kicks in with some flutes and melodic elements as we have a tracking
shot of someone in a horse-drawn carriage. It’s Gandalf! The camera
pans around the carriage as it crosses a bridge into Hobbiton and we
see The Green Dragon and a market full of Hobbits bustling about.
Gandalf rides past Hobbits working in a field, you can already tell
that they must be about 3 or 4 feet tall compared to the fields they
are working in, you can pretty much only see their heads and
shoulders above the crops!
The camera follows Gandalf along
a path in a very hilly area.. it’s Bag End! Wow they got this scene
exactly from my imagination! The grass is incredibly green and
everything seems perfectly right. Very good audio here is you can
hear the “clip clop, clip clop” of the horses hooves as Gandalf
pulls up to Bag End. “Whoa, whoa” he tells his horse and we cut to…
Gandalf hitting a very large circular door with the bottom
of his staff. From inside we hear Bilbo’s voice yell “I don’t want
any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations!” Gandalf
replies with “and what about very old friends?” Wow! His voice is
spot-on. Very booming and powerful. The door opens and Bilbo looks
out. “Gandalf?!” The old wizard replies “Bilbo Baggins, you haven’t
aged a day” (good nod to the fact that the ring is keeping him
ageless.) They both embrace each other and have a good ol friend’s
laugh together. Amazing to see two great actors at their finest
here!
We cut to an interior shot towards that great green
door. Bilbo walks in saying “come in, Welcome Welcome!” Holy cow
this is cool . Gandalf is bent over inside the Hobbit Hole looking
at least 6 and a half feet tall. Bilbo is near waist height compared
to him. Pure gold here. “Tea, or something stronger? I’ve got a few
bottles of the good stuff, 1296, a very good year! Almost as old as
I am!”
“Just Tea thank you “ replies the now hat-less
wizard. Gandalf runs into the hanging candelabra and then turns and
SMACKS his head into the curved doorframe leading into another room.
OUCH. Perfect execution and you could almost feel a headache coming
on yourself! You can see Bilbo running around in rooms in the
background as Gandalf walks into a living-room type area with a
bunch of old parchments on a table. You can see a map sitting on the
table… hey it’s the old map from The Hobbit! You see The Lonely
Mountain and a great big Red Dragon drawn in the corner next to it!
Very cool reference to Tolkien history here. (wipes tear from eye).
Bilbo walks into the living room and asks Gandalf what he wanted to
drink again. Gandalf appears from the corner behind him and says
“just tea please”. Cool to see the old wizard can still move pretty
fast.
Cut to: Fireworks exploding in the night sky over a
lake. We see a bunch of Hobbits dancing with Gandalf who towers over
the entire bunch! Hey it’s Frodo! A shot of him smiling while his
uncle Bilbo makes his farewell speech. Bilbo says: “I’m going now, I
bid you all a very fond farewell….goodbye!!.” With that he vanishes
from view. How does the vanishing effect happen you ask? He
basically just blinks out. He’s not transparent; he’s just gone from
view. We cut to the front door of Bag End opening on it’s own and
then Bilbo appears taking off the Ring. We hear a voice-over
conversation of Bilbo and Gandalf talking about the Ring. “Bilbo, I
think you should leave the Ring behind. Is that so hard?” A shot of
a hand shaking holding the Ring… and he lets it go. “Goodbye Bilbo”
says Gandalf as we see Bilbo walking off into the night.
Voice-over by Gandalf: “This is the One Ring. Forged by the
dark lord Sauron in the fires of Mount Doom.” We see orcs and
someone pounding out a Ring. The Ring is shown against a fire and
the familiar text appears. Now we see Frodo come into frame saying
“we’ll keep it here and never speak of it again. No one knows it’s
here do they? Do they Gandalf?”
Smash cut to: Dark Riders!!
They’re chasing Hobbits all over the place. We see Strider smoking
his pipe in Bree! Wow that’s a great shot. The montage speeds up
here as the music from the first internet trailer pumps through the
sound system. We see Ringwraiths closing in on the Hobbits on
Weathertop. Aragorn is there to fight them off. Now we’re in Orthanc
watching a discussion between Saruman and Gandalf. (Orthanc still
reminds me of the movie Dungeons and Dragons… I hope they can do
something to make it look different). Very fast scenes and cuts
between various portions of Fellowship of the Ring.
Slow
Down. Cut to a shot of Cate Blanchett’s face as Galadriel. Very,
very pretty gal! Looks absolutely elvish in nature. She says: “I
know what it is you saw, for it is also in my mind” (they’re talking
about the Mirror of Galadriel I think). Now it’s Hugo Weaving (Agent
Smith.. er I mean Elrond) speaking! “The Ring was made in the fires
of Mount Doom… only there can it be unmade” Hey it’s Sean Bean
looking perfectly Boromir. (gawd anything to get that abomination of
Bakshi’s Boromir out of my head thankyouverymuch). Boromir thinks
it’s suicide to try to take the Ring to Mount Doom. Back to
Galadriel : “You are a Ringbearer Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power is
to be alone” Back to the Council of Elrond we see the Hobbits
running in and the Fellowship is formed. Elrond speaks “Nine walkers
to combat the Nine Riders, you shall be the Fellowship of the Ring”
Cut to: that money shot from the 2nd trailer. (where the
entire fellowship walks over that mountain top. I get chills every
time I see that scene.) We go to a helicopter shot of the Fellowship
walking.. holy cow New Zealand is so beautiful! I gotta tell you
ladies, Viggo, Sean, and Orlando all look very good. You’ll
definitely have guys to cheer for when watching this movie! Huge
sweeping plains and majestic mountains in the background. The
Fellowship is shown under duress with a huge snowstorm. Cut to a
discussion about what they are going to do. “If we can’t go over the
mountain, we go under it”. Next we see those brilliantly constructed
doors of Moria opening up, the dwarvish text glowing quite nicely.
(no shots of the Watcher in the Water sadly)
We see the
Company walking into a huge ruined area. Lots of gigantic stonework
fallen about in the area. Gandalf says “We need more light” and
proceeds to use his staff to illuminate the area…. OH.MY. GOD. Now
we’re getting into it. EPIC my friends. You can see pillars that
must be 300 or 400 feet tall for as far as the eye can see. The
camera is position near the ceiling to truly show the grand scale of
Moria. The fellowship looks like ants near the bottom of the
pillars. Cut to a shot of Gimli (John Rhys-Davies): “It’s a Marvel!”
Wow he looks great in his dwarven makeup!
Next we happen
upon the Tomb of Balin. Wow another shot pulled directly from my
imagination. The area is scatted with corpses from long ago.. more
skeletons than anything else now. Gimli runs in by himself wailing
aloud.. “nooo! Nooo!” He begins grieving for Balin. It’s a very sad
scene. Here is where I notice the music.. .wow it’s perfect for this
scene. It’s right in sync with the actions on screen. Gandalf takes
a great old book from skeletal clutches of a dwarf. He begins to
read aloud almost exactly as it comes from the book. “They have
taken the bridge and the second hall. We can not hold them for long”
Legolas “we cannot stay… we must move on” Gandalf again speaking:
“Drums.. drums in the deep. We can not get out.. we can not get
out.” We see over his shoulder reading the dwarvish text.. the last
line scrawls off the end of the page “we can not get out…”
The music stop as Pippin touches a skull of a warrior into
the well. (first noticeable change from the book) We hear the skull
echoing and echoing as it falls and falls…. And then the rest of the
fallen warrior falls in with a chain and a bucket going as well. Oh
man. You can tell that they’re in trouble now. Pan to Gandalf: “Fool
of a Took!!! Throw yourself in next time and rid us of your
stupidity!” Screaming is heard…Frodo draws Sting and we see it
glowing Blue! Boromir checks the door as two arrows hit the door
RIGHT next to his face.. “Orcs and a Cave Troll! Close the doors!”
Aragorn and Boromir close the doors as Legolas throws them
large polearms and axes to wedge the door shut. Gimli says “Let them
come.. there is still a Dwarf in Moria that draws blood!” You can
see the look of vengeance in his face! The music is picking up as
the Orcs begin chopping at the door. Legolas begins firing arrows
thru the broken door and taking out Orcs.
Orcs knock down
the door and come rushing in. Holy cow it’s a frenetic battle!
Mithrandir pulls out Glamdring and the Hobbits charge into battle as
well! Legolas continues putting arrows into heads and we see an orc
get decapitated (not sure if Boromir or Aragorn who got him) and
black blood spews forth. Then BLAM in roars the Cave Troll. Holy cow
it’s huge and strange looking. Not exactly what I would have
imagined. Very roundish in nature. The Cave Troll is very strong and
is knocking things apart all over the place. It’s swinging a huge
chain at Legolas as he fires arrows back at him. Aragorn is knocked
clear across the room from a blow by the Troll. Frodo is being
stalked by the Troll now. He is on the backside of pillar and the
troll is on the other side… sniffing about for him. As the troll
moves to Frodo’s side, the Ringbearer moves to the troll’s side. All
seems clear as Frodo checks back to look for the troll just as the
Cave Troll BURSTS back into frame ROARING.. SWEET JEEBUS I jumped in
my seat!!! Frodo falls backward (much like I just about did) and
tries backing away from him. The cave trolls gets ahold of a polearm
and slams it into Frodo’s chest. Slow Motion now.. great looks on
both Frodo’s face as he falls to the ground with that polearm in his
chest with the Cave Troll watching him fall down. Pippin and Merry
yell “Nooo!” and jump on the beast’s back and begin stabbing him. He
throws them off with ease as Legolas comes up and shots in arrow
into his mouth that appears out the back of his head. Finally the
big creature is brought down… dead. What an amazing sequence!
Aragorn walks up to Frodo.. “oh no.” He is surely dead. He
pulls over Frodo and he is breathing! “You should be dead, that
spear would have skewered a wild boar!” Aragorn pulls aside his
shirt and we see a well-constructed piece of silverish armor.
“Mithril” says an awed Gimli. Another Orcish scream is heard. “To
the bridge of Khazadum!” cries Gandalf! A shot of the Fellowship in
full sprint through the pillars with Orcs coming from all sides.
Tens of thousands of them. They’re coming from the ceiling and from
the floors and every single direction. (I’m not sure if I like the
fact that the crawl down the pillars headfirst like spiders though)
Soon the Fellowship is entirely surrounded by this huge horde of
Orcs. Wowzers the Orcs look amazing in their makeup! I can see some
kids having nightmares from this stuff! (and that’s a good thing!)
Looks like the end of the road for our friends. But then we hear
this huge deeeeep rumble. The Orcs all stop dead. In the far off
distance you can see this hellish light appear from floor to
ceiling. The Orcs flee!
We hear Gimli laughing. He thinks
they are fleeing from the Fellowship but he hasn’t seen the light
yet. This scene is probably my favourite from the entire sequence.
So amazingly well-done. You just can feel that something big and
badass is coming now. Gandalf says : “A Balrog. A demon of old. This
foe is beyond any of you.. RUN!” And the Fellowship begins sprinting
like there is no tomorrow! Gandalf tells Aragorn “Watch over them.
The bridge is near.” Aragorn: “But Gandalf…” Gandalf cuts him off..
“Do as I say!”
The Fellowship is running down old steps.
There is a chasm between the steps. Gandalf leaps across. Than
Legolas and Sam. Boromir takes Pippin and Merry with him. Gimli
fights off being thrown across and leaps himself. Leglolas catches
him by the beard as he begins to fall backward. Funny stuff between
these two in such a stark situation. Legolas also has to fire his
bow at the Orcs that are raining down spears and arrows from on
high. This scene has totally been constructed for the movie but it
totally works. I think this is the scene that finally convinced me
that you can actually make good changes from the book. Aragorn and
Frodo ride their piece of steps across before it crashes deep into
the chasm. A great cliffhanger scene all-together.
The
Company continues their run for The Bridge that can be seen off in
the distance. All of sudden a wall comes crashing down and there is
fire everywhere. And out of the fire comes THE BALROG (If you were
there you could have heard me saying “holy S&^*” at least a
couple times) If you want to know what the Balrog looks like, check
out John Howe’s rendition of the Balrog.. pretty much exactly like
that. But I won’t spoil it for the rest of you by describing him.
Cut to: Gandalf yelling “YOU SHALL NOT PASS” as he brings down his
staff on the bridge… and that ends the Moria sequence. Crowd erupts
into applause at this point.
Last of the Mohicans music cuts
in as we begin to see the ending montage of scenes from The Two
Towers and Return of the King. (looking at my notes here I see that
I’ve scribbled “EPIC!!!!!!!”) We see Eowyn standing by herself
looking into the distance as the camera pulls away from her. Wow. A
close-up of Denethor looking truly decrepit. We see Aragorn being
fitted with armor and Elrond giving him a reforged Narsil. Sam yells
“that’s for my old gipper!” We see the Elves going into battle.
Stuff from Helm’s Deep. We see Theoden speaking. (No Treebeard or
Lurtz). Sam speaking to a thoroughly tired Frodo “I can’t carry the
Ring.. but I can carry you”. The footage ends with Frodo putting on
the Ring saying “I will not destroy it! The Ring is MINE!”
Final Thoughts:
Everything about the footage that I
saw said “Epic”. You can readily tell that all of that 270 million
dollar budget was spent mostly onscreen. The scenery and sets were
unbelievably well-detailed and you always felt like you were in
Middle-earth while watching. After almost 3 years of doing coverage
on these movies I wasn’t sure if I could be impressed by watching
some of the finished product or not. I was totally impressed. Once
again I’m left with the notion that another 6 months of waiting is a
long, long time! The best part is knowing that New Line is going to
continue refining and working on polishing these films until the
last possible second.
Highlights:
Mines of Moria
sequence. You take one of the best chapters in the books and make it
even better onscreen with well thought-out changes.
Howard
Shore’s Original Score: For what I could hear from the Moria
sequence, it sounds like Howard may have done his best work to date.
I hope he continues to put out music of this magnitude for all 3
films.
Costumes and Set Design: Every single person onscreen
at any time looked totally natural in their costumes. It was like
taking a glimpse into a past history. From Hobbiton to the Council
of Elrond, they have done a great job at rendering a lot of
imagination onscreen.
Lowlights:
Not enough footage:
=) I could have gone for at least 10 or 20 more minutes of this
stuff!
Orcs doing the spider-walk: I still don’t think Orcs
should go head-first down pillars in Moria. Have them use ropes or
climb normally.
Orthanc: Still looks like a setpiece stolen
from the DnD production. I think if they played with the lighting
and used some darker filters on the film they can make it look a lot
better.
The Last Word: I’m more excited than ever for
everyone to see these films. It’s going to be a great day come
December 19th, 2001!
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