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Anna
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Nope, not in any book. Unfortunately!  |
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MaglorRedeemed
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| Amlee wrote: | | Anna wrote: | | Quote: | | Also, I'm as big a Legolas lover as the next girl, but doesn't a drinking contest seem sort of... weird to anyone? Like surfing-down-Helm's-Deep-type weird and out of character? |
No, not to me. He´s a bloody woodelf, for crying out loud!  |
That is just what I was thinking. Aren't Woodelf's suppose to be able to handle their drinking? I don't remember that much about The Hobbit, but didn't it talk about Bilbo and the others escaping in old wine barrels from Thranduil? |
Hmm... good point. It still seems like sort of a waste of time, though. I would rather see Imrahil or Legolas and Gimli's critique of Gondor any day. 
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Roisin
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Maybe he drinks/likes wine, but has no liking or tolerance for ale?
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Eyborg
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Legolas is a culture snob. We all know that.  |
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Anna
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Aerin
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| He surfed the Olliphant, and rail slid Helms deep, and I loved those scenes. Leggy needs to be loosened up a little. Only one Galadriel is needed in ME... |
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Thuriniel
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Book Legolas has great lines ... I mean ... how could they pass the chance of having him throw a tantrum as they enter Lothlorien?! And when he talks about Gimli's "long hard axe"? How could they pass that one?!
Movie Legolas could have been so much better. Although I thought that Orlando did a very decent job considering that he got the worst lines of them all  . It's hard to look cool and maintain your composure when all that you get to say is: "Orcs" ... "Gandalf!" ... "Goblins" .
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NancyBrooke
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| Thuriniel wrote: | | Movie Legolas could have been so much better. Although I thought that Orlando did a very decent job considering that he got the worst lines of them all |
Much better! I found all the special-effects stuff to be over the top and unecessary. Did we need to see Legolas do his Luke Skywalker imitation to believe he was cool? I think not.
I think the drinking scene sounds like more ill-conceived and unneeded character building on the part of the script writers.
Throughout seeing both TT and ROTK I kept thinking "if he says one more 'I can feel it"" I'm going to leap up there and bitch slap the pretty boy.
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Thuriniel
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Throughout seeing both TT and ROTK I kept thinking "if he says one more 'I can feel it"" I'm going to leap up there and bitch slap the pretty boy. |
The "I can feel it" line was a bit ... overused.
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Book Legolas has the best lines ever. I mean, how can you pass up the oportunity to party with an elf who, when seeing his long lost hobbit-friend who they presumed dead eating the spoils from the capure of Isengard "I'd sooner know where they came by the wine." The elf's invited to all my house parties!
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Anna
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That´s my kind of weed-elf!  |
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Eyborg
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| Thuriniel wrote: | | NancyBrooke wrote: | | Throughout seeing both TT and ROTK I kept thinking "if he says one more 'I can feel it"" I'm going to leap up there and bitch slap the pretty boy. |
The "I can feel it" line was a bit ... overused. |
Hmmm... I can't recall Legolas saying that line more than once. 
But it's true that he did act very much like some Jedi knight occasionally...  |
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Amlee
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The one thing that Jackson did with all 3 movies was show emotion with the eyes. Which from my understanding is one of the hardest thing for an actor to do. I didn't catch this at first and had it pointed out to me. I then went back and watched the movies paying more attention to the eyes. Orlando did a wonderful job doing this. He may not have had many lines, but he let his eyes work for him.
I do have to admit that book Legolas had better lines than movie Legolas. |
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Cormak
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Movie Legolas definitely got the shaft. Book Legolas is so much more of an interesting character. He had wonderful lines and they pretty much ignored them for the movie. They did make movie Legolas too much like a Jedi Knight,.
I do give points to movie Legolas for "1. being someone really fine to look at  and 2. the expressions. That's more Orlando's acting than the writing. I love emotions conveyed through glances and movements than through words. Orlando did a wonderful job doing this. |
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Honestly, I thought the movie-Legolas was great.
I've read the books and I agree that the book-Legolas had some cool lines that didn't get into the movie - but I really don't get all the "Cpt. Obvious" jokes and/or the fuss about his "obvious" or "stupid" lines that seem to run rampent whenever Leggy's brought up.
I really enjoy the movies and that vrs of Legolas. Lots of people seem set on poking at him for lines like, "A diversion" and for his knack at stating the obvious. Those things never bothered me. They somehow seemed to fit when he said them, and while they could have come across as reeeeeally cheesy (giving me full reason to march around and scream death like everyone else) Orlando made it work and seem natural coming from Legolas.
And for heaven's sakes, he's an Elf! They work differently then Men do! You can't expect them to think or act like Men becuase they just don't!
Of course, I think of the movies as being based off the story rather than the book. Believe it or not there is a difference (at least in my opinion there is. And, as everyone knows, if it's my opinion it's automatically correct. Right? lol...).
And when you think about it, the books are full of awesome lines that never made it into the movies, and most of them aren't Legolas'. Likewise, there are many things in the movies that I think are an improvment over the books, and quite a few lines that I like better in the movie.
Ok, I'm done ranting now! You can all come out of hiding!! *looks around* Darn! I'll have to remember to be more gentle next time!
And if anyone's still interested, here's a link to a slendiferous site that has about all the info you could ever want (except for the movie itself lol!) :
http://home.datacomm.ch/betaversion/
Enjoy! Hope you like!!
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