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Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards

Posted by michael on from the my-precious dept.

zoobaby writes "MTV has given the LoTR franchise credit for spectactular work with Gollum. After being snubbed by the Academy Awards, it is nice to see recognition given to one of the most expressive and best acted roles in recent films."

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  1. Gollum as one Actor. by lostchicken · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some people have said that having Serkis as the actor on scene, the face actor, the expression actor and the voice actor is just a gimmic.

    This is complete rubbish. The reason that Gollum seems as real as he does is because of the connection between voice and motion that you get with every human. It is for this reason that it is always easy to tell when a voice for animation was cast before or after the animation itself was complete.

    If I walked around with somebody else's voice all day, I would seem strange. Hats off to Serkis and the LotR crew for knowing this. Now we can begin to cast by acting talent, not physical attractiveness.

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    -twb
  2. Yoda speak is Latin, dammit by mr_tenor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I cannot _stand_ people who think Yoda speaks in a fashion that just randomly rearranges words. The times I've watched Star Wars (tm) movies, it's always seemed to me that he speaks in a classical Latin word order

    eg.

    "Strong you are" (Yoda) or whatever, as compared to
    "mangus es" (Romans)