Because archers rock
Jul. 24th, 2003 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meteordustHave you ever wondered whether Legolas's braids actually serve a practical purpose? Or the considered the mechanics of switching from bow to daggers mid-combat?
Check out The Boy With The Bow, subtitled "Legolas & Stunt Archery in Jackson's Film of FoTR". This is an amazingly detailed analysis of the archery in The Fellowship of the Ring, written by an archery expert who loves the movie. It's a fascinating read. What impressed me most is how much of the archery in the movie - while looking too cool to be true - was actually carefully orchestrated and stands up under expert scrutiny. There are even details which the average viewer would miss and only an expert would catch - and yet the filmmakers took pains to get them right.
The more I learn about the making of these movies, the more impressed I am by Peter Jackson and co.
Also, from SFX Issue 100:
The on-screen Legolas melted members of both sexes into little puddles. Which is cool, elves are pretty, but then you kind of forget that he's the 1,000 year-old son of a king and a member of the most magical race on the planet. No wonder he's such a good shot. He's had a lot of practice.
Check out The Boy With The Bow, subtitled "Legolas & Stunt Archery in Jackson's Film of FoTR". This is an amazingly detailed analysis of the archery in The Fellowship of the Ring, written by an archery expert who loves the movie. It's a fascinating read. What impressed me most is how much of the archery in the movie - while looking too cool to be true - was actually carefully orchestrated and stands up under expert scrutiny. There are even details which the average viewer would miss and only an expert would catch - and yet the filmmakers took pains to get them right.
The more I learn about the making of these movies, the more impressed I am by Peter Jackson and co.
Also, from SFX Issue 100:
The on-screen Legolas melted members of both sexes into little puddles. Which is cool, elves are pretty, but then you kind of forget that he's the 1,000 year-old son of a king and a member of the most magical race on the planet. No wonder he's such a good shot. He's had a lot of practice.
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Date: 2003-07-24 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-25 12:42 am (UTC)No wonder he's such a good shot. He's had a lot of practice.
Don't tell anyone, but I actually rather hoped he'd spent the last few hundred years doing little but having sex with various people (and therefore skiving off archery practice... Imagine - he could be better at it!)