Mooning over "Golden Party Tent" Frodo....

[mechtild]

Yep, still procrastinating.

Because there can be no such thing as too many EE Party Tent screencaps, I pored over the scene in which Bilbo pulls Frodo aside, hiding from the arriving Sackville-Bagginses. Once they are out of danger, Bilbo tries to confide to Frodo what he plans to do. He struggles to say what he feels, but can't quite bring himself to do it. He ends up changing the subject and bringing the exchange to an abrupt close. Frodo mostly listens. I think this is a gorgeously played scene, and film-Frodo looks gorgeous in it. As I moved from frame to frame, I almost couldn't choose....


Frodo's face changed by only the tiniest increments as he listened to Bilbo, but I stared, enthralled, just the same.

I still am staring. How can he LOOK like that? My heart squeezes in my chest gazing at such finely-drawn emotions, expressed by a face of such incredible beauty. The lighting inside the tent doesn't hurt, either, producing, "Golden Frodo".

Here are some caps, appearing in film order.



Golden Party Tent Frodo:

































Ah, just look at those eyes, so dark, so brimming with affectionate feeling:





















And now, for the real drool-fest:












































Click HERE for table of Frodo and Elijah Wood Screencaps.



~ Mechtild

Comments

Golden Frodo

[taerie.livejournal.com]

I love this as well. That golden light really makes him look like the half remembered image of a dream you once had. Achingly beautiful, magical and astonishing that anyone could look like that.
Another thing about that sequence that I ADORE is that bratty look he gives the departing Sackville-Bagginses.. having successfully evaded them. If there is a better echo of the "Worst rascal in Buckland" (As he was described in the book by Farmer Maggot) he once was, I haven't spotted it.

Re: Golden Frodo

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

"The bratty look"? I missed it! I'll have to pop that DVD right back in the computer!

But do you mean that grin? If so, I do remember that and loved it, but I had interpreted Frodo's grin not just as relief to have evaded them, but a smile at Bilbo's discomfiture. Frodo seems to stand a bit apart from Bilbo's feud with the S-B's, in the book and in the film (in which it is only glimpsed). I always thought Frodo probably found the whole thing a bit amusing, a tempest in a teapot over an offense that happened before his time, even if Frodo didn't like the S-B's either -- simply because they were unpleasant.

Frodo ended up letting Bag End go to them, which tells me that he wasn't that personally invested in the whole squabble.

Just my opinion, of course.

Re: Golden Frodo

[taerie.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was REALLY courageous of Frodo to escort Lobelia to the door and devest her of things that had fallen into her umbrella. Not sure I could have done that. She seems pretty formidable.. like a 'church lady" you best not mess with. Despite this, and probably because of this, I found myself admiring her. She was a fizzer.

Re: Golden Frodo

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

You are right, she did seem fairly formidable! I am probably projecting my own insecurities, but I always thought that the greatest fear Frodo would have had to overcome in order to get Lobelia out the door was the fear that he'd have to endure a massive Scene. Frodo is such a well-spoken gentlehobbit. He does not seem the "making a scene" type. Until he has to issue his threat to Gollum in the Emyn Muil, I can't remember him raising his voice in anger, only in high spirits, in song or to tell a tale, or in calling for help. I can't remember him speaking really sharply to anyone, until he did so to Sam in Mordor, under the influence of fatigue and the Ring. Even in the Scouring, although he spoke strongly against injustices and issued commands, he still did not seem to succumb to using speech, even impassioned speech, to wound or degrade.

I have always felt a little sorry for the S-B's. I wouldn't want to have to endure their company, but they seem such a pitiful, mean-spirited threesome. I think they end up making themselves as miserable as they make anyone else.