“Ridiculous Thoughts~Alternate Take,” Part Seven....
This last set consists mostly of the "happy" rather than "angsty" material. In these, he seems to have found an interior room or space that has old recording devices in it, he picks up the signal, hears the music, and rejoices.
I included the first three caps, even though his face is not very visible, simply because I loved his profile and the line of his throat. These are followed by a few screencaps that highlighted his hands. (Apart from his stubby nails, I think his hands are quite exceptional.)
Then come frames that show him getting ready to hear the music, hearing it, reacting to it with elation, then what looks like a burst of euphoric release. This sequence is similar in the "official" version of the video (which I capped previously), so these may look familiar. But this version has many more, and more of them are in focus. Lucky me!
For last, I saved a frame from a sequence that actually appears early in the alternate version, but I thought one of them would make a perfect final picture. In these shots, EW could have been the ispiration for, "The Afternoon of a Faun," but a sleeping faun. I think he looks, well, there just aren't words, he's so utterly lovely.
~ Series Seven of the Elijah Wood "Ridiculous Thoughts" screencaps, from the "Alternate Take", to be found on the "Extra Features," of the Cranberries DVD, "STARS - The Best of Videos 1992-2002"....
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~ Mechtild