![]() "What we were playing really was that Frodo was a junkie by this stage, that he was addicted to The Ring." (Phillipa Boyens, DVD) "The original version of that scene had Frodo pretty aggressive, borderline psychotic saying, you know, 'Get out of here - you can't help me', in a really kind of venomous tone." (Mark Ordesky, DVD) What is amazing when you look at the finished scene in ROTK, is to think that every tie we cut to and fro between Frodo and Sam we are actually jumping back and forth across a year-long gap." (PJ, "Peter Jackson:A Film-maker's Journey" by Brian Sibley) He knew that he had to deliver a performance that matched the emotion of Sean's takes, and that he did to perfection. He had to get his head back into a scene that had been half-filmed so long ago. "A year later, we were back in the squash court, and this time the heat was on Elijah. There was lots of slipping and banging your head." (Sean, DVD) ![]() (Elijah, DVD)Įven though they were indoors, the stairs were quite slippy and difficult to negotiate.Įlijah was in front of me and the pointy end of his scabbard poked me in the face all the time - I was sure I was going to lose an eye on that thing. It was just one of the many sacrifices of making these films. "So essentially the people of Queenstown were without squash for over a year. "What happened is that we didn't end up going back to that squash court to finish that scene until Dec 2000" (PJ, DVD) How this state of affairs came about was covered in Chapter Five and for anyone wanting to refer to this here is the link - you’ll need to scroll down a bit. The scene on the ledge of The Stair where Frodo sends Sam home was shot in two parts - one year apart!! Sean’s scenes were shot in November 1999 and Elijah’s one year later in November 2000. He rushes to the monitor for a closer look!! “Well, you’ll have to pay - it’ll be out in two years time!!” (PJ, DVD) “Oh my God - I haven’t seen this!!” (Elijah, dvd) Sir Ed has requested to see a certain scene It was a true honour for everybody I think to be in his presence - I mean he's on the NZ 5 dollar bill!" (Elijah, DVD) ![]() ![]() "To our surprise Sir Edmund Hillary visited that day. PJ kindly gave Elijah, Sean and Andy a copy each of Sir Ed’s book and a 5 dollar bill bearing his image for him to sign. On this day there was a very special guest joining the cast for lunch - Sir Edmund Hillary (now sadly deceased). "The Morgul Crossroads was shot in a forest near Wellington - it was just a scrubby bit of farmland - we picked it because it had these interesting shapes of these trees - sort of splintered and split.”(PJ, dvd) "There was this aura about ROTK that was quite special - I mean obviously we were skipping around quite a lot but whenever it came to doing something for film three there was this kind of excitement." (Elijah, DVD) It was also shot on what Elijah described as “a day that was frighteningly cold”! While the actual journey to the Crossroads was shot on the North Island, the culvert scene was shot in Okahune on the South Island in a burnt-out area which, according to Dan Hennah, looked like a World War One battlefield - “You certainly got the feeling it was the destruction of Mordor, the destruction of life”. I then discovered I'd actually posted it - unfinished!! So before I do anything else silly here is Chapter 15 ~ 'Guest of Honour'.įrodo and Sam’s first scene in ROTK is, of course, in the culvert on their way to the Crossroads. ![]() I post this with the greatest of relief - about ten minutes ago I thought I'd lost the whole thing - I pressed something and it was gone and the automatic 'save LJ entry' didn't appear to be working. We have now reached the shooting of scenes from ROTK - Elijah and PJ's favourite of the Trilogy. I can now bring you the next chapter of 'A Journey With Frodo'. ![]()
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