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bedlamsbardAlso this week we have watched Sharpe's Eagle and Sharpe's Company, starring Sean Bean, which leads my father to remark during the council scene, "He looks like he'd rather be back in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon might have been tough, but he wasn't pure evil like Sauron! And the French aren't orcs!"
I remember there was a lot of criticism of Orlando Bloom's Legolas (who I really like, by the way) when LotR first came out (and oh, but I have memories of going to see LotR in theatres!), but if you give culture shock -- dealing with humans! and dwarves! and hobbits! probably for the first time in his life, unless you count the time the dwarves got taken prisoner by Thranduil in The Hobbit -- his character portrayal makes a lot more sense. Of course he hangs out with Aragorn a lot; Aragorn was raised by elves, so they're practically of the same species.
It may be the Sharpe thing bleeding over, but I found myself liking Boromir a lot more this time, and I couldn't put my finger on why until the last scene, where Boromir's blowing his horn, and then I knew:
Basically, Boromir is Susan Pevensie.
Or, shall I say, Boromir is Susan redeemed. Both of them are the only two characters to doubt and fall (and one can argue this in LotR, but the situation further on in the trilogy is slightly different), but unlike Susan, Boromir manages to redeem himself in the end. Susan just falls -- diminishes, and goes into the West, and remains Susan Pevensie. To, uh, mix characters in LotR. The rest of them rise to glory; she and Boromir fall.
Also, both of them have horns. There's something here that I can't quite put my finger on yet. *muses* (Perhaps my senior honors thesis can be on similarities in post-War British fantasy literature, hmm?)
I remember there was a lot of criticism of Orlando Bloom's Legolas (who I really like, by the way) when LotR first came out (and oh, but I have memories of going to see LotR in theatres!), but if you give culture shock -- dealing with humans! and dwarves! and hobbits! probably for the first time in his life, unless you count the time the dwarves got taken prisoner by Thranduil in The Hobbit -- his character portrayal makes a lot more sense. Of course he hangs out with Aragorn a lot; Aragorn was raised by elves, so they're practically of the same species.
It may be the Sharpe thing bleeding over, but I found myself liking Boromir a lot more this time, and I couldn't put my finger on why until the last scene, where Boromir's blowing his horn, and then I knew:
Basically, Boromir is Susan Pevensie.
Or, shall I say, Boromir is Susan redeemed. Both of them are the only two characters to doubt and fall (and one can argue this in LotR, but the situation further on in the trilogy is slightly different), but unlike Susan, Boromir manages to redeem himself in the end. Susan just falls -- diminishes, and goes into the West, and remains Susan Pevensie. To, uh, mix characters in LotR. The rest of them rise to glory; she and Boromir fall.
Also, both of them have horns. There's something here that I can't quite put my finger on yet. *muses* (Perhaps my senior honors thesis can be on similarities in post-War British fantasy literature, hmm?)