He is amazing as an actor, you can see all those different feelings in him, he's so childlike and innocent and sweet, and he's Frodo there, not Elijah, and he's beautiful as can be!
You have hit something major, there, which I often forget. He's acting! Elijah Wood's not "really" Frodo, somehow compelled to come and be photographed for this film. One of the shocks and pleasures of first watching the FotR EE DVD extras (since I wasn't in the fandom when it came out theatrically and I had seen NONE of the materials on TV or in the extras for the theatrical DVD), was how different the real EW was from the character he created.
I'd just finished sobbing and swooning over this sublimely, otherworldly-gorgeous hobbit prince of a hero, and here's this American kid with rumpled hair slouching around his trailer, flipping through CD's and yukking it up with fellow cast members, every other word bleeped (and spoken in American diction), in a voice half an octave higher than his film voice. What a moment of cognitive and aesthetic dissonance!
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Date: 2006-04-08 01:24 pm (UTC)You have hit something major, there, which I often forget. He's acting! Elijah Wood's not "really" Frodo, somehow compelled to come and be photographed for this film. One of the shocks and pleasures of first watching the FotR EE DVD extras (since I wasn't in the fandom when it came out theatrically and I had seen NONE of the materials on TV or in the extras for the theatrical DVD), was how different the real EW was from the character he created.
I'd just finished sobbing and swooning over this sublimely, otherworldly-gorgeous hobbit prince of a hero, and here's this American kid with rumpled hair slouching around his trailer, flipping through CD's and yukking it up with fellow cast members, every other word bleeped (and spoken in American diction), in a voice half an octave higher than his film voice. What a moment of cognitive and aesthetic dissonance!