| Friday, December 28, 2001 |
10:43 - My precious...
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I'm a little bit disappointed that they didn't get Peter Woodthorpe to do Gollum. The Gollum they have looks like it'll be a really cool envisioning of the character, but the voice just seems a little too high-pitched and alien for my taste.
Peter Woodthorpe did Gollum in both the Bakshi movie and the BBC radio production, and through those he honed a really marvelous Gollum delivery. He figured out how to do the stuttery hiss-s-s-sing, he figured out how to do the gollum-gurgling and make it work, and he interpreted flat book dialogue into rich, believable character development. When Sam asks "Where've you been, anyway, sneaking off and sneaking back?" The book has Gollum respond, "sneaking, sneaking," in an unemotional, under-the-breath sneer of imitation. But in the Bakshi movie, in one scene that I think is really successful, he delivers it as a shocked "Sneaking? SNEAking?!" smacking the ground with the second word. Incredulous and insulted. For a moment he turns fop. And by God it works.
Maybe Woodthorpe is dead-- I don't know. But here's hoping the new guy can fill his shoes. I'm sure he will; if there's anything I've learned lately, it's to trust Peter Jackson.
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