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Stupid Elf Tricks...
This may have been brought up before, but I have not seen it. Thus the creation of this thread.
Everyone knows, and most despise, Legolas' Mumakil stunt in RotK. Likewise, we find the drinking contest in TTT rather far-fetched and disturbing. Both scenes make Legolas look too much like superman rather than just an elf. This is bothersome because he is just that: an elf. But what I think most of us overlook is our princeling's little trick in the Fellowship. Now, most of you are probably wondering what I am talking about, and I would have done the same until this thought suddenly came upon me. I'm talking about Legolas' little battle with the cave troll in Moria. Now, at the time I probably laughed a little 'that was a bit over the top' laugh when I first saw the movie, but let it slide. But it really is about equally improbable as the other two occurences. The fact that he tight-rope walks a moving chain onto the back of a live troll and then just stands there for a second to draw his bow and shoot it in the head is as close to impossible as makes no difference. He then lithely hops down when the thing begins to swing in circles. Not something you'd see just anybody doing. Well, not something Legolas should be doing, anyway. But what I'm wondering, apart from if anyone agrees with me, is why do we all overlook this scene? Many of us say that PJ got more and more over the top as the movies came out, but this shows the three to be more consistent than we first thought. So why are we always pointing to the other two stunts and forgetting this one?
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... or an Elf running on snow without making an imprint ...
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Fine, Essex, you're right; in the context of a fantasy world anything is possible. My point was that people seem to nit-pick Legolas for his later stunts, but they ignore the one that I saw in the Fellowship. That's what doesn't make sense to me.
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I would cite two main reasons.
First, as you hinted in your opening post, it is the first time that we see a Legolas "stunt", so it doesn't stand out particularly in the scheme of things. Secondly, it is more in keeping with Legolas' nature as an agile Elven warrior. The shield surfing (which I don't like) and the Oliphaunt climbing (to a lesser extent, in my opinion) are more likely to "break the spell" and take us out of the story because they are less in keeping with the Legolas we know from the book and also, possibly, because we are catching on that Legolas "stunts" are becoming "set-piece" features of the films. I would note that another Legolas moment that seems to attract little criticism is his twisting leap onto the back of his moving horse, although I still maintain that it was an anatomically impossible feat.
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Perhaps not anatomically impossible, but certainly in violation of the laws of Physics. Saucy makes good points, but I think another reason these stunt stand out so much is their incredible similarity to extreme sports. Legolas looks less like an Elf doing typical Elf stuff, and more like a skateboarder or surfer. It certainly breaks some of the believability when we are confronted with something so modern and familiar when we are supposed to be drawn into a strange and ancient world.
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But see, the thing with that is that tight-rope walking, no matter how uncommon it is, is still, technically, a modern day thing. I think this one is over looked because of the fact that after the snow walking thing (which I really don't like), everyone thinks that Legolas can do anything. That was the impression I got. I think the other thing is that PJ wanted to develop the Elves a little more than they were described in the books. In the books, Elves are described as being light footed and agile. All of the stunts in the movies show this characteristic of the Elves. The ones in the Fellowship more so than the ones later on.
Saucy, I agree with you about Legolas's little twirl onto the horse. I thought it was cool at first, but now it just bugs me to the point of death. I hate it when he goes and defies the laws of gravity!!
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I agree that some of Legolas' stunts are a bit over-the-top, but I think the walking-on-snow thing is held up by the text. In "The Ring Goes South," we get the following:
"Legolas watched them for a while with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others. 'The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow--an Elf.' With that he sprang forth nimbley, and then Frodo noticed as if for the first time, though he had long known it, that the Elf had no boots, but wore only light shoes, as he always did, and his feet made little imprint in the snow." Granted, the text doesn't actually say that Legolas walks on top of the snow, but I don't think it's too big a leap. I always saw his walking on the snow in the film as a nod to this scene in the book.
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I agree with Carorëiel and was actually looking up this quote and noticed that it was just posted. Glirdan, I believe what the point Saucey was making is that Legolas was walking on the snow with little imprint and that's not technically possibly yet in a fantasy world it is.
Though more on topic I don't see any major problem with this particular stunt. There needs to be some amazing things happening here. It wouldn't be, cinematically speaking, as interesting if Leggy merely shot him from a distance and the battle was over. While this is a bit over the top that is all it is. The other stunts are more exorbitant in their realism and more of a gratuitous insert to make the women swoon (coughbethberrycough) , especially the shield surfing.
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Not just the women, Morm. I too find the stunts swoonworthy.
People get bothered by different things. Stupid, funny, cool things like Oliphaunt stunts are fine by me. It's character defamation that makes me shake my head.
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There's a thread that discusses the "walking-on-snow" thing to some length in the New Comer forum. Here.
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Snow, I conceed; that's not one of the points I am talking about, though. Perhaps a little chain-walking I can even live with. It's the fact that Legolas comes up as an untouchable character in certain situations, but he is not like that all the time.
'Oh, look, a huge hairy mumak. Instead of running away, I think I'll run towards it. Just a little grab, a couple simple swings up, kill a few enemies, cut a foot-thick rope, release a few arrows into a running oliphaunt's skull and slide down it's trunk like I was merely slicing cheese.' Take that into contrast with a Legolas who can't even fight his way through a crowd to save Aragorn in RotK and you've got a pretty up-and-down character. True, it is a fantasy universe, and so things can happen that aren't realistic, but it's more than that that bothers me. It's like PJ wants to use Legolas to shoot elves up on an unassailable pedestal. The stunts are something that an elf, even in a fantasy world, should not be able to do.
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But I will grant that it does bring you out of the fantasy the film has created. The reason that the episode with the cave troll is largely ignored is likely because most people (wrongly or rightly) find Fellowship to be the truest to the books and so are more involved in the fantasy, and are pulled out less easily. Also, the focus is not on Legolas for as long as it is with the shield or Oliphaunt stunts. It's fast and over quickly, moving the action on to someone else straight away. The thing is that I did actually notice it and it bugged me and always has. I didn't like Legolas from the beginning though which wasn't a great help. But it's just like the problem we were discussing in SbS, when he jumps off the troll you can see the switch between CGI and real person, and that was quite jarring. I also saw no real need for it. In the books it was Frodo who was the only one that did any real damage to it, though of course there was not a proper fight. But still I saw no reason to take that act of bravery away from Frodo and give it to a character we know to be strong and brave. It detracts a little from the point of the episode.
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I disagree with the pluasibility of the horse trick. Had he swung backwards onto the horse it would have been a common place stunt. but this is not what he did. Legolas swung forward, changed direction spun around, and landed behind Gimli. Laws of Physics aside, such a feat would have required monumental physical strength.
Laws of Physics taken into account, his momentum was frward, not upward, so by all rights he should have gone flying off to the side. *pauses to laugh at this image* "But wait," you say, "he could have used the horse's neck to change direction!" To that I say, he can't have had the proper grip on the horse's neck to keep from flying off to the side enitrely, or his hand would have been unable to slide over the surface of the neck. Unless he's secretly Mr. Fantastic, this wouldn't work.
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SpM, I see cinematographic reasons well - in action movie there would be action, and Legolas fills the bill well. It is logical to have his agility as a starting point, and there is not much inconsistency there. But it is the (harmful, I believe) shift of perspective that Legolas stunts bring about.
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Troll stunt - spectacular, no doubt, but again, shift of a perspective. Book's 'we can not get out' is a sudden and piercing pain, almost despair for me, and parallel with dwarves long ago. Escape from Room of Mazarbul is a marvel, minor 'eucatastrophe' in its own right. In the movie, there is no such a sense at all, rather 'good, they will kick some *** and go on presently'. And an aside - the filming is even disrespectful - indeed, Gimli standing on Balin's tomb - do we treat tombs of our heroes in such a manner? Whilst in the book Gimli first goes for the ork who dares to set foot on the tomb! In the light of instances above, horse stunt seems innocent and least unnatural of all (Seeing also as all throughout Caucasus the skill of horse-riding was once spread (and now is preserved by circus troops mainly) when a rider would jump on and off, turn around and lean to the ground to pick up minor objects all in a full gallop)
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Funny how PJ never thought of taking us for assistants? ;)
Agility as an advantage in combat - of course - I do continue logical chain myself in my previous. But I thought it inappropriate to stress on prowess only, shuffling other things behind the front-page combat.
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I just don't understand why every male here is so jealous of the Hugely succesful, Multi millionaire and good looking movie star Orlando Bloom who has a string of beauties attached to his arm..................it really is beyond me.
I'd also like to congratulate everyone on not using the words 'Captain' and 'Obvious' together for 27 posts. Well done! PS - yes the surfing did look 'out of place' - but whose to say that someone hasn't thought of something like this to get down some stairs quickly before? Why do we always think that just because we only invented surfing a while back that no one's thought of using a piece of wood or metal to make it down some stairs fast (and somewhat pecariously!) years before this? |
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Essex, I think you misunderstand what we are saying here. This is not Orlando Bloom bashing, in fact I think he is a decent actor in his own right and I think he fit the general image of Legolas, to me anyway. I am not jealous in the least of him and I see why PJ would put in a pretty-boy in as the elf lead role. That's fine with me that he wanted to have an attractive 'hottie' for the girls to like. What does bother me is how he is shown at times. In particular the shield surfing. It just doesn't seem true to the story or environment. It's too similar to what I would expect Vin Diesel to be doing or even a Steven Segal. It simply took me out of the battle that was occuring and didn't seem to fit into what should have been happening at this time.
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It's not Legolas' portrayal in the films that has distorted him somewhat irreparably for me. Rather, it's the reaction of filmgoers to the onscreen Legolas; and here I would class the contortions of Legolovers and purists as equally damaging, really.
Admittedly, film-Legolas for me was a good deal less than perfect. But as he was my favourite character when I first read the book at the age of six, that was always going to be rather difficult. I was annoyed by the blonde wig (Legolas is obviously dark) and the loss of the incredibly moving Sea-Longing scenes, but not to the point of delirium, foaming at the mouth etc. No, what was dreadful was when it became clear that everyone had noticed Legolas. That they were either singing his praises or ripping him to pieces in berserk rage. Mud stuck on two sides; the fangirls were idolizing a simpering yellow-haired luvvah who quickly began to overlap with Orlie himself; the sceptics were yelling hackneyed and irritating names like "Captain Obvious!" and telling long, boring jokes about Legolas' shampoo supply. Between them they ruined his gravitas. I began to realise I would have difficulty taking Legolas seriously again. That the Elf who fought perilously and wept into the sea was being forgotten. The mob had surrounded Legolas like a group of small boys fighting over a toy, and torn him to pieces... And Mith, with respect, I'm sure Polynesians have been surfing away since 5000 BC, but I know and you know that the filmmakers don't care less about that aspect. They're aiming to suck up to skaters, and that does worry me a little. But it's a minor point, and really I believe, as I say, that the fans-aye, that we-are to blame for the defamation of poor old Leggy. (Every time you say Leggy, another piece of Legolas' integrity dies...)
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Well I had the horror of my elder sister who had sneered at my Tolkien obsession throughout my adolescence suddenly getting interested because she liked Orlando Bloom ... I mean how ghastly is that? At her age it practically counts as a midlife crisis....grrrrrrrrrrrr Orlando Bloom is harmless enough. The role has brought him fame disproprotionate to his ability but such is the way of the world. He is not my vision of Legolas (who was a favourite of mine too when I first read the book) so I have filtered him out.... you will get him back. The book Legolas is still whatever he was. In my opinion virtually all the characters were demeaned in the film in relation to their book - if you think Legolas is hit hard, think about poor Elrond whose nobility and sacrifice is transformed in to a petulant MD and slightly creepy Dad... or Faramir..... PJ's vision doesn't have to destroy yours... I know have a composite in my head comprising of my own imaginings, Tolkien's picture overlapped with favourite aspects of the film and radio..... Personally I resent these scenes not because of Legolas's tricks - I thought the Troll chain walk was an acceptable sub for Legolas's running a rope across the Celebrant- but because they were overlong and left less time for character development.
For the surfing I merely attempted to provide factual information .... however I found the Gimli related incidents more intrusive and disrupting to the "suspension of disbelief" ("nobody tosses a Dwarf " etc....)
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And of course as long as there has been snow and slopes I bet people have slid down em on their cultural equivalent of a tin tray.......
Oh the bugeyed moppets - once ok maybe they were plausible hobbits, but when they reappeared in Rohan and Gondor, I started getting the feeling we had removed to Royston Vasey and everyone was horribly inbred....
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With Elrond I suppose it's because I was never as interested in him as I was in Legolas (until I read the Silmarillion and decided I was Maglor reincarnated, anyway...), as lots of my Elrondite friends felt his altering keenly. But with Faramir, aside from the slightly ridiculous plot-holes caused by the Nazgul sequence, I had few problems, because I felt Wenham was a good actor who was deling with a character inside the appropriate culture. Indeed, in TTT EE and ROTK I could find no faults with him, and enjoyed every second he was on screen. Oh for more Houses of Healing scenes with the goddess Miranda... Legolas felt...rather jarringly modern in more ways than skating, and reading interviews with Orlie didn't help. It's a problem he has in Kingdom of Heaven too. He couldn't be less "mediaeval"...
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Yes, Faramir was rather demeaned in the movies. But there are whole other threads on that, I'm sure.
Anguirel makes a good point. I admit that it become much easier to find fault with him after the raving fan girls started. It was sort of a knee jerk reaction for fan girl/boy haters, such as myself. (Really, people, the Capt. Obvious joke is overdone. For heavens sake, lets remember the audience this was directed at. Not everyone might have gotten the point. And it happened once, that I'm aware. Hardly condeming.) My only true" beef" if you will is with the Oliphaunt, the stair surfing, and the horse trick, the last of which couldn't make up for itself with even looking cool. At least the first too had the initial, "Woah, I wasn't expecting kick*** moves like that," before the, "Wait a minute, what is he, Tonk Hawk?" Also, if anyone here saw Disney's Tarzan, that part where our loin-clothed hero slides through the tree branches looks remarkably like the Oliphaunt trunk-sliding Legolas. That sequence, according to the artists, was speciffically designed to look like surfing/skating. Coincidence? Most likely, but you never know.
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Also, as PJ said in the EE comentary, they were transposing the scene from Minas Morgul to Osgiliath (you know, where Frodo is tempted to put on the Ring by the Witch King as he sets off to War) - so not TOTALLY sacrligeous to the story............ anyway, don't mind me, let's get back to the Leggy bashing.................... Last edited by Essex; 11-30-2005 at 04:38 PM. |
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I actually agree about Faramir. I hate the way he is so different from the book, but looking at the movie alone, I think he is rather consistent, and would have really enjoyed his character, had I not known book Faramir already.
Truthfully, the shield surfing did not bother me. I thought it was actually quite cool. The reason that the horse-jump is just so physically and anatomically impossible that it makes me groan. The mumakil scene didn't bother me so much initially, except when he slides down the trunk and has the hideously smug look on his face. I can't even explain why, but it just infuriates me to no end. The only relief is Gimli's hilarious reply.
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