The Lord of the Rings is back in the news this week with the confirmation of the launch date for the ambitious Amazon Prime series. Additionally, Peter Jackson’s films continue to give themselves through anecdotes and curiosities, this time from the hand of the actors Dominic Monaghan Y Billy Boyd, in charge of interpreting Merry and Pippin. What was the most difficult scene to shoot?
From this point on, the news may include plot spoilers / spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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The Gray Ports, a cluster of tears and memories
It has been in an encounter with IGN —On the occasion of the new podcast The Friendship Onion, dedicated to the genesis of the film adaptation of the novels of J. R. R. Tolkien– where both artists have explained which was the sequence that presented more complexities during filming sessions.
This is the scene of the Gray Ports, in the final The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (the third of the trilogy). It was there, when Frodo Baggins (played by Elijah Wood) leaves for the Undying Lands and says goodbye to his friends after destroying the Ring, that emotions and feelings were the biggest obstacle.
“Good, we had to do it three times! ”, They admit without hesitation. “If you asked all four of us, ‘Choose a scene that guarantees you’ll only have to do once and you won’t do it again,’ we’d probably have said Gray Havens, basically because we were all crying like childrenMonaghan says. “I think the third take I did, the one in the movie, is probably not as hysterical as I was in the first or even the second. It was hard”, Adds the actor.
There’s another reason they had to shoot that scene three times. Sean Adtin was wearing the wrong suit, they recall. On the lunch break, he took off his vest and, when he came back, forgot to put it back on. They had to go back another day and shoot the entire scene from scratch, but the celluloid broke down in the production factories. And another day, Billy Boyd relates.
Without a doubt, despite being a scene without action or technical complexities, that moment of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingIt is one of the most special of the trilogy. We now know that it was also one of the most difficult to film.
Source | IGN
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