Hmm. I just wrote and answer and it disappeared. I won't write it again, but I want to say, Pearl, you are so right. EW is a cutie, but he cannot be identified with what he and the rest of the LotR team created as film-Frodo. I don't think there will ever be an onscreen creation to match him.
Pearl, I wanted to post these caps, too, but I thought you wouldn't get to see them, since you already have replied, so I'm posting this series in this comment box.
Here's a scene that really struck me last night, doing the caps, because of the way it seemed to mirror the last scene in RotK, when Bilbo and Frodo are driving off to the Grey Havens.
The composition is so similar, I am guessing it was intentional, even if this scene did not make the theatrical cut. Visually, they are like bookends. I am betting they were shot at about the same time, too. Frodo look tremendously young in this EE Party Tent scene. In the side views below, his face looks little older than the one that appears in Huck Finn. The scene in the wagon at the end of RotK also shows a very young-faced Frodo (underneath all that the pancake
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Re: Rrroooowwwwrrrr, from Texas-HobbitmechtildNovember 7 2005, 03:14:46 UTC
Ah, dear, dear Tex,
Yes, he is an unrepeatable vision, is he not?
I really don’t see him appearing as androgynous as others might. There’s that strong, muscular neck to account for! :o) But I do see him as a picture of idealized manhood so often depicted by the sculptors and painters among us, especially among the classical artists, a balance of beauty and strength.
I think when people say adrogynous, they don't mean "effeminate," but that he has qualities that they associate with both male and female beauty. I think this is accurate for film-Frodo, especially when EW was still a teenager
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Re: Rrroooowwwwrrrr, from Texas-HobbittaerieNovember 7 2005, 18:54:25 UTC
The DVD play and capture program that I use is called PowerDVD by Cyberlink (I think the web address is www.gocyberlink.com but you can also do a google search and it comes up.) The neet thing about this is that it is VERY easy to use if you have a dvd drive in your machine. And they let you download it free to use for a month to try it out. You can do a lot of screen captures of Frodo in a month. :-)
I was astonished to see that someone else had noticed the resemblance and I LOVE what you said describing his child/man beauty. Sets up an interesting conflict of instinct. Sometimes I don't know wether I want to snog him or feed him.
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Here's a scene that really struck me last night, doing the caps, because of the way it seemed to mirror the last scene in RotK, when Bilbo and Frodo are driving off to the Grey Havens.
The composition is so similar, I am guessing it was intentional, even if this scene did not make the theatrical cut. Visually, they are like bookends. I am betting they were shot at about the same time, too. Frodo look tremendously young in this EE Party Tent scene. In the side views below, his face looks little older than the one that appears in Huck Finn. The scene in the wagon at the end of RotK also shows a very young-faced Frodo (underneath all that the pancake ( ... )
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I especially swooned for him at Lothlorien, with or without the blue lighting...so utterly beautiful, it hurts...
I don't expect we'll ever see Elijah in quite the same sort of role again, at least not looking like that...must be his age or something...
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Is it "Ride to the Grey Havens," or what?
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Yes, he is an unrepeatable vision, is he not?
I really don’t see him appearing as androgynous as others might. There’s that strong, muscular neck to account for! :o) But I do see him as a picture of idealized manhood so often depicted by the sculptors and painters among us, especially among the classical artists, a balance of beauty and strength.
I think when people say adrogynous, they don't mean "effeminate," but that he has qualities that they associate with both male and female beauty. I think this is accurate for film-Frodo, especially when EW was still a teenager ( ... )
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The neet thing about this is that it is VERY easy to use if you have a dvd drive in your machine. And they let you download it free to use for a month to try it out. You can do a lot of screen captures of Frodo in a month. :-)
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