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FotR Extended edition
I finally got to watch the extended DVD version of FotR, and all I've got to say is--amazing. And I realized something awful.
Boromir + movie + book = favorite character.
It struck me like a bolt of lightning that I empathized with everything he was feeling-- from his desire to use the ring to help restore honor to Gondor, to denying Aragorn as his king--Gondor has no king; Gondor needs no king-- to the wonderful argument he had with Aragorn about the fact that although his kingdom and people were weak and fragile, they also had courage and Aragorn couldn't see it.
I always thought of him as the bad apple of the Fellowship, the cursable character that redeems himself in the end with a final, heroic action, only now I find that's not true at all. He isn't a weak man who had a noble moment. He's a noble man that redeemed his honor from the one weakness he had--the Ring, and using that Ring to defeat Sauron. And he died trying to save the Little Ones.
I was bawling through the last half hour of the damned movie. And then, after he died that totally heart wrenching death, and I heard this line--
They will look for him from the White Tower. He will not return.
I started keening. Full, torn-from-the-heart tears. It's not fair, I tell you!! Why did he become my favorite character??
And what was really odd/funny?
I'm keening over my box of tissues, strangling my cat in a desperate cuddle that she's trying to get out of with all her strength, and my Dad pats my shoulder and says, "Maybe they'll find a Dragon Ball and wish him back to life."
My response? Half-hysterical giggling.
Insanity.
And just as I suspected, Gimli's line of asking Galadriel for a strand of her hair and getting three strands turned me into utter mush. I am a wimp. A psychotic wimp.
Happy 2003, everyone. Hope everyone wasn't crying hysterically like me. ^^
Boromir + movie + book = favorite character.
It struck me like a bolt of lightning that I empathized with everything he was feeling-- from his desire to use the ring to help restore honor to Gondor, to denying Aragorn as his king--Gondor has no king; Gondor needs no king-- to the wonderful argument he had with Aragorn about the fact that although his kingdom and people were weak and fragile, they also had courage and Aragorn couldn't see it.
I always thought of him as the bad apple of the Fellowship, the cursable character that redeems himself in the end with a final, heroic action, only now I find that's not true at all. He isn't a weak man who had a noble moment. He's a noble man that redeemed his honor from the one weakness he had--the Ring, and using that Ring to defeat Sauron. And he died trying to save the Little Ones.
I was bawling through the last half hour of the damned movie. And then, after he died that totally heart wrenching death, and I heard this line--
They will look for him from the White Tower. He will not return.
I started keening. Full, torn-from-the-heart tears. It's not fair, I tell you!! Why did he become my favorite character??
And what was really odd/funny?
I'm keening over my box of tissues, strangling my cat in a desperate cuddle that she's trying to get out of with all her strength, and my Dad pats my shoulder and says, "Maybe they'll find a Dragon Ball and wish him back to life."
My response? Half-hysterical giggling.
Insanity.
And just as I suspected, Gimli's line of asking Galadriel for a strand of her hair and getting three strands turned me into utter mush. I am a wimp. A psychotic wimp.
Happy 2003, everyone. Hope everyone wasn't crying hysterically like me. ^^
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i wish i couldn't emphasize, i've really had to search my soul on the boromir front, especially in light of faramir... and i just. i can't loath him like i used to. he gets such a bad rap, but, really, i think he's more honest than any of them. and more aware.
::would let you desperately cuddle with her any time::
Re:
*cuddles desparately with Regret* ^^
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i'm telling you tthe extended version is just... it's the end all and be all, ten times better than the actual movie. and just... watch the cast commentary biatch, just... just do it, you hear me??