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Andy "Gollum" Serkis Speaks
Jondor writes "The BBC has an article in which
Andy Serkis answers questions about his role as Gollum.
Can't wait so spend a whole 9 hours watching for the full DVD release of LOTR!"
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...he was a stand-in for the actors to look so they appeared to be looking at gollum when they did the CG. Andy Serkis didn't decide what emotions to show at certain moments, those are scripted. He was just a body. That's like giving David Prowse an oscar for his work as Darth Vader. Regardless of what Prowse was doing in his Vader suit, what we saw could have been done by anyone. A sock puppet could have done what Serkis did. Come on folks, quit being such techsheep.
Like Filthy said, this movie wasn't as great as the geeks make it out to be. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it but it certainly wasn't the greatest movie around.
Gollum was way over the top (smells like Jar-Jar to me). There is little/no reason that really makes this worthy of an Oscar, besides just the coolness-factor of having a digital character win a major award.
For what it's worth, I am not a fan of the books. They come across as extremely juvenile, and I didn't get around to looking at them until I was in college. It was such a waste of time to read that shit. I don't care if you think they were influential/groundbreaking/important/etc. They still sucked, the technic was poor and the plots pitiful. While I'm at it, I'd like to make a point that the Oscars don't mean much anyway. It's just another excuse for these worthless celebrity shells-of-humanity to get together and congratulate each other on how utterly important they really are.
May the streets run red with Arab blood today!!!
Down with Saudi Arabia!!!