To: Perdogg
Nicolas Cage passed up the role of Aragorn because of “family obligations.” Tolkien's heavenly intercession, perhaps.
Daniel Day-Lewis might have been okay.
2 posted on
08/31/2014 6:49:38 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
To: Tax-chick
Hard to imagine anyone other than Mortenson. He's generally a "mumbler," but I think he was perfectly cast.
BTW, watched a special feature on Samuel Bronstein, who produced "King of Kings," "El Cid," "Fall of the Roman Empire," and the special effects/costume people ALWAYS used real iron swords because Bronstein wanted a realistic effect.
4 posted on
08/31/2014 6:54:57 AM PDT by
LS
('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
To: Tax-chick
6 posted on
08/31/2014 6:58:16 AM PDT by
Perdogg
(I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush)
To: Tax-chick
Nicholas Cage would have been horrible! Can’t act, looks like a metrosexual, the thin, whiny voice. Why was he even in contention?
Agreed. Day-Lewis would have worked.
14 posted on
08/31/2014 7:15:18 AM PDT by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: Tax-chick
Tolkien's heavenly intercession, perhaps.
25 posted on
08/31/2014 8:02:49 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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