These relationships are high drama powerful examples of male friendship and family. Boromir and Faramir have an intense brotherhood, and have complex feelings about the loyalty owed to their king, Aragorn. Gandalf takes on a sometimes kind, sometimes frustrated grandfatherly role to the hobbits. They fondly tease their other cousin Frodo, and talk down to working-class Sam. Merry and Pippin are cousins, and banter like cousins. There are many relationships between men in the book, most of them platonic. Revisiting the book in the last year, as someone who has been out for many years and who is deeply engaged in making and consuming queer stories, I was amazed to find a same-sex love story at the heart of the narrative. The essayist Italo Calvino defined a classic as “a book that has never finished what it has to say,” and The Lord of the Rings is certainly a classic. But for a long time I avoided it, for the same reason that I learned not to talk about the movies at school: The accusations of queerness somehow tied into a story about elves, hobbits, and looming evil. It’s written on my creative DNA as the first book I really loved.
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I listened to The Lord of the Rings before I knew how to read. So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. “Then I took that tape, its output to the VHS,” Woods laughed.2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story. “We went to the Miramax offices that night, back when Miramax was still a thing, and cut the scenes together,” Woods said. They shot two scenes for the audition in Griffith Park and one at Wood’s home. To get the part of Frodo right, Woods went to a dialect coach to perfect the Shire accent. He also asked a filmmaker friend to help him shoot the tape. But he decided to make one for his audition as Frodo Baggins. Wood had never made an audition tape before that and he noted that they weren’t a common practice then. Going an extra mile or should we say miles for the role Nervously thinking about the script, Wood knew he would have to do something more than simply reading for the part in a white room. “It really came to life off of the page.” “It was so palpable and lifelike,” Wood said. After reading, Wood said, he was “immersed in the world.”
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Since the movie producers were keeping the script under wraps, Wood sat in a casting director’s office by himself and read the script for two hours. The next step was preparing for the audition, but Wood’s agent told him that he would need to go to the casting office to read the script. As the reality of a possibly great opportunity presented itself in front of him, he took it. Wood had already read The Hobbit and was familiar with the middle-Earth fantasy that J.R.R. But then his agent called and suggested the same thing. “There’s so much in Heavenly Creatures that establishes what he’s capable of as filmmaker and marrying the notion of a fantasy realm with an emotional honesty and depth,” Wood said.Īfter a friend suggested that Wood go in to audition for Frodo, Wood laughed it off. A fan of his work, especially his renowned 1994 psychological drama Heavenly Creatures, Wood admitted he could see why that would work. When Wood first heard that Peter Jackson, the movie director, was making Lord of the Rings, Wood thought it was an “incredible” idea. Elijah Wood | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival How did Elijah Wood hear about the movie and the role? Recently, in an interview with GQ, Wood revealed the lengths he went to, to get the historical part in the movie. One such role was of the ring-bearer himself, Frodo Baggins, played by Elijah Wood. The characters and the actors who played them in the movie left an unforgettable mark in cinema with their roles. The iconic trilogy set in dystopian middle-Earth, where the power of evil is growing and there’s only but a ring that can change the course of the future, still hasn’t lost its appeal amongst an ever-growing fan base. It has been 18 years since the last Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King debuted in theaters.
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