Have you ever heard Eliza Wood laugh? Like, really laugh? Straight-up bust a gut in shock and happy? its Great. He doesn’t really do much in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but you can still see him doing it on Lord of the Rings If you carefully dig through the scene menu on DVD Return of the king To find one of the two hidden easter eggs there. That way you’ll get a great joke in the entire film adaptation The Lord of the Rings.
The 2021 mark marks the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings, and we cannot imagine the discovery of the trilogy in just one story. Every Wednesday throughout the year, we will go there and re-examine how and why films have come to an end as modern classics. This is the year of the ring’s report door.
This is a mischievous call made by Dominic Monaghan, posing as German interviewer “Hans Jensen”, with Eliza Wood asking increasingly ridiculous questions in a remarkably consistent German accent. This is a great goofy, but also a good reminder of how Different Fan and internet culture was when these films were released – if these films were to appear today, we might have been tired already.
If you’ve never seen an interview before, it’s a lot easier to watch than in 2004, thanks to YouTube. Wood, as he notes in an introduction recorded after the fact, completely bought Monaghan’s skittic, and for the next eight minutes, is taken for a full ride as “Hans Jensen” Asked her about her beautiful eyes, and, in the best pose, the video, if she had a “fuzzy tone”.
(It is also worth noting that this prank call is a product of its time – both because it is a prank call and because Monaghan uses his German character to make blunt statements about his co-star’s sexuality. It’s not too terrible, but the joke plays on such an inconvenience, which speaks to the common homophobia of the early ’00s, which was not so long ago)!
The video is a joy partly in part because it’s so funny – about Wood’s former Dolphins co-star in the wickedly non-sequitur drifting absurdly from the cry. Fish fin – But it is also steeped in meta-natives around the films Lord of the Rings, and how best friends cast members who performed their core fellowship during the filming of Trilogy. This friendship was a big part of the film’s folklore – they all get tattoos of the Elvish character for “Nine”, a little common knowledge that often comes up when Dominic Monaghan talked about it in a 2016 Entertainment Weekly interview, and Orlando Bloom graced the event with a photo shared on Instagram around the same time.
What is interesting about this backstory is that it is preserved and remembered, sometimes surfacing when people, for example, remember the time on Reddit when Viggo Mortensen and Karl Urban press in Japan We bought gunpla together. when Lord of the Rings Movies were unfolding, there was a lot of functional online, but not social media – fans gathered on an internet that feels prehistoric in retrospectors, sharing news and posting on silent message boards and fan sites. A lot of them, like Viggo Mortensen shared the same photos in their original context, are still around! And together with more traditional press stories about films released at the time, a hybrid text is formed, as modern fantasy re-processes the charm of the previous generation.
The Lord of the Rings It is not the only film celebrated in this way, but it is the biggest blockbuster event to come at a time in which fans were online and films were not. Now, Dominic Monaghan Pranking Like Eliza Wood will not give away some DVDs only to find the biggest fans, it will be shared on the film’s Instagram account. It will be one of several orchestral stunts for viral publicity – an appearance The mask singer, Maybe on another Hot onionA shoot with Wired To answer the most searched questions on the web, a Jimmy kimmel Hatred tweet reading section – a long charm offensive that can start anyone on that film to question people Actually Liked each other. (Or, possibly, confirmed those questions.)
These modern media blitzes can have great moments – promoting Tom Holland Spider-Man: Homecoming Dragging Zendaya into drag on Lip sync battle The form is a classic – but they were already fun. Now, press tour is A battery of story, interviews and viral games that cast the actors in a pretzel of the authenticity of the acting. We’re at the point that when celebrity people start doing things Actually For example, Paul Bettany’s joking joking about working with an actor whom he always wants to work with (himself), a tidbit snowball into mass fan speculation about a secret. Vandavision Played by the villain … Al Pacino? In a world like this, the only way to win is to troll. What Bettany did reminds everyone that it’s all a performance, and we’re all part of it.
These lines were not drawn so cleanly while The Lord of the Rings Was happening And that’s what it felt Is happening, Is not being anticipated. Algorithms were not very important in deciding who saw what, social media did not yet ignore the resentment and speculation, and the online functional was still mostly an audience sport – studios were Absolutely No court or engage with online forums. So fans turned their wheels to relative obscurity, and now that we remember those films, we’re also remembering the pandics that – of course, those of the likes of the Middle-earth world There is a long line extension.
It is fitting that a trilogy of films about amazing and horrifying myths rising above the shadows for one last storm will also generate its own mythology that feels like one of the last of its kind . The distance between the internet as it was and the internet is as far The Lord of the Rings Feel like a piece of the past, in a way later Hobbit The trilogy and the upcoming Amazon show will never happen.
On the Internet, there is something that always happens, always exists, all shared on the same social network. But with The Lord of the Rings, We are all stories, and say a very good prank.
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