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I went and saw Andy Serkis tonight! Ahhh! And it was so much effing fun...
I will refrain from acting like a foolish fangirl. (In my head: Eeeeeeeeeeeee!)
Anyway. I took notes, ostensibly to give to Katt and Maggie (who could not make it, because their play is opening) but really because I'm an utter dork. So here they are, Katt and Maggie and anyone else who cares.
(I'm typing them nearly verbatim from what I scribbled down in my philosophy notebook. I hope they make sense....more or less.)
-Would you do it again? No. Because it's all about the journey and the unknown.
-Have your senses out there...(the film was filled with sensitive people, cool people)
-"The Gollum-Smeagol axis of...weirdness."
-Everything affected it...you can't do anything in a vaccum...it all affected making Gollum, and the film (Sept 11, the war, and so on...)
-What would you do if the Ring landed in your lap? This being the question he sees Gollum as asking the audience...
-Smeagol-Deagol fight shot many times. Cold blooded? But the character had to be redeemable....it could have gone the other way. Like a playground scrap gone wrong...
(From the reading he did from the book...which, incidentally, I need to read now. Nora bought it....I bet I can borrow it. )
-(Smeagol) Young rich kid with money....like a Middle Earth playboy. A bit weird, a loner, introverted...became a collector of objects--which were more important than people. Dyfunctional, but not evil. "Full of morbid self-attention." Which is quoted from some movie, but I forget which one.
-Series of vignettes....from Smeagol to Gollum. Makeup changes and so forth.
-Manicures with a drilling tool...latex masks and green putrid wash..."I was completely unrecognizeable...Lorraine brought the children in to see me...Ruby looked me up and down and shook her head and said, 'silly daddy.'"
-He did the schizo scene! Even cooler when not in costume!
(And we move to the Q and A...)
-Would not pick ANY other character. Goes for flawed and morally ambiguous characters.
-Why do people want to play Gollum? (This Q from Lee, Frannie's mom! :)) He's the most human. Addiction. Co-worker, you don't really like, gets on your nerves, has gross habits...then does something that breaks your heart, and, "oh, I don't know..." --Then is disgusting again- "I always knew he was a bastard!"
-Hobbit movie? Hard to make...very linear story. "I'd be a bit miffed if he didn't ask me back..."
-"Gollum is a sex god!"
"I'd totally agree." ... "Smeagol, I'm pregnant!"
-"Precious, which should I answer?" "We don't know...." (This when two people asked a question at once)
-Considers all the books the same thing, really....
-Gollum-juice...good fro the throat, not for the gut...
-"When my children don't go to bed on time, out comes Gollum...."
-The Wig Incident...
Wheeeeee! It was so beautiful...
Also, driving home I spotted this sign, for the second time, but I wanted to stick this up here anyway...at Corry's drycleaning, on 55th and 25th:
LAUNDRY
THE SECOND BEST REASON
TO TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES
I liked that. Nice ring.
-Lia
I will refrain from acting like a foolish fangirl. (In my head: Eeeeeeeeeeeee!)
Anyway. I took notes, ostensibly to give to Katt and Maggie (who could not make it, because their play is opening) but really because I'm an utter dork. So here they are, Katt and Maggie and anyone else who cares.
(I'm typing them nearly verbatim from what I scribbled down in my philosophy notebook. I hope they make sense....more or less.)
-Would you do it again? No. Because it's all about the journey and the unknown.
-Have your senses out there...(the film was filled with sensitive people, cool people)
-"The Gollum-Smeagol axis of...weirdness."
-Everything affected it...you can't do anything in a vaccum...it all affected making Gollum, and the film (Sept 11, the war, and so on...)
-What would you do if the Ring landed in your lap? This being the question he sees Gollum as asking the audience...
-Smeagol-Deagol fight shot many times. Cold blooded? But the character had to be redeemable....it could have gone the other way. Like a playground scrap gone wrong...
(From the reading he did from the book...which, incidentally, I need to read now. Nora bought it....I bet I can borrow it. )
-(Smeagol) Young rich kid with money....like a Middle Earth playboy. A bit weird, a loner, introverted...became a collector of objects--which were more important than people. Dyfunctional, but not evil. "Full of morbid self-attention." Which is quoted from some movie, but I forget which one.
-Series of vignettes....from Smeagol to Gollum. Makeup changes and so forth.
-Manicures with a drilling tool...latex masks and green putrid wash..."I was completely unrecognizeable...Lorraine brought the children in to see me...Ruby looked me up and down and shook her head and said, 'silly daddy.'"
-He did the schizo scene! Even cooler when not in costume!
(And we move to the Q and A...)
-Would not pick ANY other character. Goes for flawed and morally ambiguous characters.
-Why do people want to play Gollum? (This Q from Lee, Frannie's mom! :)) He's the most human. Addiction. Co-worker, you don't really like, gets on your nerves, has gross habits...then does something that breaks your heart, and, "oh, I don't know..." --Then is disgusting again- "I always knew he was a bastard!"
-Hobbit movie? Hard to make...very linear story. "I'd be a bit miffed if he didn't ask me back..."
-"Gollum is a sex god!"
"I'd totally agree." ... "Smeagol, I'm pregnant!"
-"Precious, which should I answer?" "We don't know...." (This when two people asked a question at once)
-Considers all the books the same thing, really....
-Gollum-juice...good fro the throat, not for the gut...
-"When my children don't go to bed on time, out comes Gollum...."
-The Wig Incident...
Wheeeeee! It was so beautiful...
Also, driving home I spotted this sign, for the second time, but I wanted to stick this up here anyway...at Corry's drycleaning, on 55th and 25th:
LAUNDRY
THE SECOND BEST REASON
TO TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES
I liked that. Nice ring.
-Lia
