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MTV Movie Awards - Gollum's Acceptance Clip
tinderbox writes "Tolkien fansite TheOneRing.net has a Quicktime clip of Gollum - and Andy Serkis - accepting the golden popcorn for Best Visual Performance at the MTV Movie Awards. It's hysterical."
No joking, this is probably the funniest acceptance speech I have ever seen. Yoda had a speech for winning "Best Fight", but it wasn't anything close to this.
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The Gollum speach was the best one of the evening. The Yoda speech was lame -- looked terrible trying to do it live, no emotion, even the jokes were flat (not unlike Episodes 1&2, come to think of it).
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Finally some real and proper glory to Weeta.
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All you have to do is watch MTV for another day or two... The awards show will be on about 32 times in a week.
I think the editors are launching their own DOS attacks to supplement the Slashdot effect in order to get more people to subscribe. Four posts in and the server isn't even responding.
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I've cached the 8.2MB version (highest-quality) here in my Streamload account:
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http://www.streamload.com/steve/gollum_mtvawards_
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This is a good complement to the previous spoof of LOTR done in the MTV movie awards last year, that even was included in the Fellowship of the Ring DVD. I suppose that this one will be included in the DVD of the The Two Towers.
With all due respect to CmdrTaco, I find it difficult to see much humor in watching Gollum say "fsck!" and spew a bunch of banal insults. Call me a curmudgeon, but I don't think that speech was very clever OR funny.
Okay, I'll admit I might have let out a slight "heh".
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I wonder if Weta will now go on to win an award for best visual effects in an acceptance speech? :) But seriously, it was an absolute riot and definately worth waiting for. Hope they include it on the special edition DVD of the Two Towers (region 2, please!!!!).
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When this first came up on the awards, I laughed. But then gollum quickly started cussing up a storm and it ruined the humor and turned it to annoyance. Saying negative things against LOTR I'm sure I'll get modded to hell and back for this ;)
When I started downloading the 8mb file it was running at 25K/sec - it's now down to 4K/sec and still dropping.
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That was beautiful. I hope they add it to the DVD. Hopefully, it will be uncensored. The Much Music (Canada) broadcast had many of Gollum's comments bleeped out.
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That was great... does anyone have a link to the Yoda acceptance speech?
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yea it was funny seeing gollum argue with himself, but was I the only one who thought that gollum's lips were just moving randomly and barely with the words?
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Thanks for that... I can't play it though. Better get the latest codec. Why is it that these stupid codecs have to change every other week?
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I see there are already a couple of mirrors, but in case they don't hold up here is a BitTorrent: Gollum%27s%20MTV%20Acceptance%20Speech.torrent
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It wasn't very creative. Slagging Dobby was funny, but going on like that was over the top.
On the other hand, there are probably many real people who say very similar things after such award ceremonies...
I still think that although Gollum was a cool effect, the character was over-acted. They were pandering to the masses. Just imagine if Boromir had scenes where he were talking to himself about how much he wants the ring. It would be utterly stupid.
I would have been suprised if somebody tried to write an acceptance speech which would have been in-character and didn't draw on the crowd pleasing split personality scene.
Oh well. I'm not saying Gollumn was done poorly, I think he was done as well as can be expected. I just don't think the character is anything spectacular.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't use any other known language either.
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Sorry, I didn't notice Gollum because there was 100 HALF NAkEd LESbianS IN ThE WAy!
It's not even an english-speaking community.
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got it yesterday:
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http://www.calcgames.org/site/pub/gollum_mtvaward
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I snagged it from kazaa, 71 meg avi. I'm uploading it to my webserver, if I'm stupid I'll post a link.
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This may be flamebait, but I've never understood why saying fuck has to be censored with bleeps and all that.
Maybe everybody has just gotten used to it through all the years of censoring, and have forgotten to ask themselves why? I mean, you know what he's saying right?
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There's a bunch of beeping.
http://www.mtv.com/onair/movieawards/ma03/clips/
And you think acceptance speeches from half way around the world, with the award being conveniantly there for the winner, are live?
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Well thats the problem right there, you're watching it on an IBM computer!
well gee. Considering that it was a prerecorded clip (oviously), not to mention the fact that he had the golden popcorn...
Now, if they didn't already have a golden popcorn, then I'd say give them some leeway. They got informed ahead of time that they were nominated, and MTV wanted an acceptance speach with Gollum if they won.
Now, you gotta wonder, was Gollum's commentary about MTV something akin to Weta's opnion, or just fluff?
Does anyone have a direct link to Daveigh Chase's acceptance speech? (She won for best villain as Samara in the ring)
Better get the latest codec. Why is it that these stupid codecs have to change every other week?
Worked fine with Crossover and I haven't updated it in like 6 months.
I'm especially glad they did a short intro to the speech with Andy Serkis thanking everyone. Probably most of MTV never saw the man behind gollum and I'm glad they have now.
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That's awesome. I completely lost it at "those pixel pushing pin dicks at Weta Digital!"
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All I heard was bleep bleep bleep.
What's up with this bleep thing? Can't we evolve a little? All the kids know more dirty words then mature people anyway. The only thing they have to do is catch an episode of Southpark that I miss. This bleep thing just shows how big of hypocrites we all are. On the second hand maybe the bleeps got so much into life that we always assume the worst when we hear it and that's what really turns us on.
Does anyone have a text of the speech without the bleeps?
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and playing some good stuff
... to be able to watch one of Tolkien's timeless characters turned into a whore for MTV.
I wish they'd never made the damn movies.
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With all due respect: Taste differs. I don't there is something that everyone thinks is funny - there's nothing wierd or insightful in that, IMHO.
Personally, I found that clip absolutely hilarious - I just wish I could get hold of an "non-american" version because all those stupid beeps kinda ruins it IMHO. It's not like there's a lot of people that don't know what he's saying anyway, so what's the point? I'm glad they don't edit everything like that here.
Another question: What exactly is he saying in the last sentence?
How difficult would it be to do it with the golden popcorn, I mean, this is Weta we're talking about here. It's not like a cup of golden popcorn is that difficult to duplicate, I'm sure MTV would have provided enough information to make a 3D model or even sent an actual trophy. They could have made all of the nominees create an acceptance clip, possibly paying them for it. It would be obvious anyone that an acceptance clip would have to be prerecorded, so I'm sure that all the nominees would have one.
However, it's almost likely that Weta was notified long ago. The actual decision is not something they pull off at the last moment, it's not random. But the existence of popcorn has nothing to do with it.
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Yessssss, my precioussss! Wese haveses a nasssssty time on MTV! Wantssss fishhhhhh! Wants fishhhhh NOW, and keepssss those nasssty chipses! Gollum hungry. Gollum will ssssneakses up on MTV producer goblin and eatssss it!
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Isn't one media player enough? Isn't there some .mov codec that I can download?
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Actually I doubt an unedited version "exists", simply because the point of the short is to be censored for a TV audience (I haven't watched it in forever, but the last MTV LOTR parody w/ Jack Black I believe contained some bleeps, which carried over to the FOTR extended DVD).
Plus, sometimes vulgarity's funnier when it's just a string of bleeps. It highlights it more. And like you said, it's not like we don't know what he's saying anyway.
why? forty-two.
Seriously... tell us how you really feel.
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... start playing commecials, they were for intertaining products like "Punker Punch" (which I'ver never seen in any store) or MadBalls. Ahh, MTV - down the crapper.
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It plays just fine with mplayer 0.90 as well. :)
Thanks for the link, that eliminated a lot of DL'ing pain.
Agreed. J.R.R. Tolkien would have been horrified at this outburst. Then again, it's also generally acknowledged that Tolkien also would have hated the films. Oh well.
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Really winners of this kind of stuff know in advance anyway, but it usually isn't a great deal of time before. Oscar winner rumours hit about a fortnight before. We all knew Miyazaki was supposed to go pick up his award for Spirited Away. He sure knew in advance. The only people who don't know in advance are the people who only have 5 minutes drive to go to the ceremony.
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So if they knew about the award at least maybe a week in advance, they could pull it off easily.
In the olden days, back when we really did still have Elves and Dragons, rendering time was the enemy, but if you've seen them working at ILM these days, the stuff they pull out of the preview window in their software is about 90% of what you get on movie screen, minus a few smoke and radiosity layers.
Features like Toy Story would be a 'nightmare' only because of the story! Stuff like Monsters Inc. was only a 'nightmare' because of the relative newness of the animated fur software.
And then every McDonalds, Coke, the VHS/DVD release, had some pretty good renditions, new jokes.. you think they spent 6 months making a Coke advert?
Once you've done it once, I think the problem is finding time to take your animators off of paid work, and getting the voice actor out of bed for a reasonable sum of money
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Just listen to the audience.
Scooby Doo
*applause*
Dobby
*applause*
Yoda
*louder applause*
Kangaroo Jack
*total silence*
Gollum
*thunderous applause*
Gee, I guess the people won't choke down any old crap that Hollywood puts in front of them afterall.
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.. it's an uncensored version. I'm know americans are pretty fucked up in this area, but censorship on the CD's are too damn much - put up a sign first or something so the scared parents have time to hide the DVD. Scheesh!
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What annoyed me was the censorship. But he did say goodnight ;)
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It increases the load on the master server, rather than distributing it over a mirror - and it means that the hosting site (TheOneRing.net) doesn't even reclaim any money through ad banners to pay for bandwidth of the slashdotting effect itself! grrrrr....
"With all due respect: Taste differs. I don't there is something that everyone thinks is funny - there's nothing wierd or insightful in that, IMHO."
As for the last sentence, here is what it sounds like to me:
Well, while it is silly to say "I don't find this funny, therefore it is not", there are things that the vast majority of people find funny, and others that they do not. Some British researchers have actually looked into this. Their findings have been discussed here before.
As somebody else said, bleeping out cuss words at least works for comic effect. It makes it seem naughty. I noticed they didn't censor out his hand when he flipped off the audience. It was pretty fast though.
Gollum: "Frankly, nothing can compensate for the long hours and low pay, and miserable experience we've had making this f----ng movie. And if you think a sh---y little tub of gold popcorn is going to remotely make up for everything we've suffered, you're SADLY F----NG MISTAKEN!
YOU'RE ALL BASTARDS! MTV SUCKS! WE HATE YOU ALL!"
Smeagal: "Goodnight".
The greatest bit is that, when they cut over to Elijah Wood (aka Frodo Baggins) at the end, you can clearly read his lips saying "That was f***king awesome!"
Well, MTV2 is alot like the old MTV, you know playing videos. Following its parrent channel, it seems to be more of a series of shows rather then, "Hi the next song is...". Right now on MTV2 is "Def Jam Uncensored". More of a documentary then songs. :(
Though next up is "Hip Hop Countdown". Does that really sound like underground music to you?
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Consider the ugly language in the LotR trilogy. It is even more impacting, imaginative, quotable even. The reason cussing is also called vulgar is because it is the commoner's way of talking. The movie would not be nearly so successful, were it to take the well-trodden path of words for excrement, sex or prostitution, anatomy, and technical terms of animal husbandry. Of course, in that scenario, it would have been directed by Adam Sandler.
The script of Gollum's acceptance speech is indicative of the LotR group's ability to fit the audience well. You know very well they would have had a similar version that wasn't so geared to the childish/modern-day-peasant mindset of "cussing is cool/entertaining."
For deleting expletives, I prefer the content reworked with a redub. It doesn't break the sound up so much (you can still hear it, though). Granted, hearing anyone utter "well, if that's the way you feel, you can kiss my eye" sounds stunted, discordant, and incongruous, yet still I find it far less hackneyed than the terse iterations of a narrow jumble of words whose only agreed definition is "offensive language."
Since I don't waste my money on paid broadcast TV (the general idea was to *not* have commercial advertisements), was the MTV award show censored when on MTV? Since when did movies have anything to do with Music Television, anyway? If they are censoring on MTV, that would suggest they are having ratings problems and can't compete with the Discovery Channel and the like... How could they compete with "Shark Week" anyway? I mean, what kind of reality show would that be? Oh wait. Running Man. If they televised the regular exodus out of Cuba, I'm sure that would come close, complete with sharks.
This speech was by far one of the best of the evening. I actually laughed out loud.
The entire show is taped a couple of days in advance of the actual air date. Gives them plenty of time to edit stuff out. They even do retakes when things don't quite work out.
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Yes, but the acceptance speeches are shown at the taping. The results are, like any other awards show, calculated in advance. (They are not prearranged.) MTV doesn't take their awards show as seriously as the bigger shows do, so if a winner cannot be there, they try to arrange for an acceptance speech. This is much more entertaining than some dope accepting the award "on behalf" of the winner.
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Why slashdot gave gollum billing over the skimpily clad dancing lesbians that shortly followed is beyond me. This is news for nerds, after all.
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Suntse is posting an opinion about how commercialism has ruined, or at least tarnished, a great literary work. Many of regaurd Tolkien's work as, if not sacred, at least worthy of respect. Many of us will also agree that commercial exploitation is a bad thing(tm) So why is this flame bait? Because the user cursed? Are we that juvenile that we can't handle crude language? Or was this modded down because the moderator just likes the movies and didn't consider the message behind the post? Moderater, if you read this, please email me with the responce, or better yet, reply (this will undo your moderation if they havn't changed the rules).
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Quite. If you think greater acceptance of profanity is bad, you're a fucking ass-hocker. If you can't use phrases like leperous fuckwhore when you need to, you run into all sorts of problems, like how the fuck you're supposed to carry on a respectable academic discussion without using leprous fuckwhore at least once. I made up "ass-hocker" just then. Good? It probably means a pimp for male prostitutes. I can't think of any other profanity that refers to them. I feel it's important to fill those sorts of holes in our language.
I'm still looking forward to the point at which the prejudice in favor of blasphemous profanity starts to lift. For the love of god, goddamn, go to hell. All those are practically encouraged at this point, but what about those of us who don't have a god, hmmm? What the fuck are we supposed to do? Might as well be saying "Oprah damn!" for all the profanity-value we get out of those. We get stuck with a-thousand-and-one permutations of fuck. Fuck it, fucking, fuck you, and are those getting depreciated into acceptable vocabulary? Noooo, we gotta downgrade to "For the love of Bob" and that kind of sterilized, pussy-ass shit.
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I believe Taco and Co. are infatuated in a perverse way with the Gollum thing.
Get over it, it was lame acting, good pupeteering.
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Yoda might not be cool anymore, but Boba Fett is still bad-ass, just like Jet Li, or Knight-Rider.
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Since I am good friends with a former Master Control Operator at the local ABC affiliate, FCC regulations do not have censorship for TV-band RF transmissions. Or, for that matter, AM and FM. It is the people who create the censorship. This topic surfaced when Schindler's List was broadcast on ABC, uncut. If you have seen the movie, you will recall crowds of naked people. Granted, it's black and white, and was not of erotic intent, but I can't see the FCC saying "well, that's different, it had artistic value."
Think about it. We see brutal massacres on television, no censorship there, live footage of people jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center... There's no good taste left in broadcast TV. So eventually, we will see "Running Cuban," a show where brave families take on the treacherous journey between Cuba and the United States, on the most unsafe of watercrafts, fending off bloodthirsty sharks, all to escape the brutal tyranny of a washed up dictator. I don't know about you, but I could see former Governor Jesse Ventura (who was in Running Man) hosting this one. He shocked the world by going on a trade mission down there.
i think eminem had the best speech when he just kept sayin I GOT MALE ...no one got that but its from a skit on crank yankers adn it was really funny.
I thought the yoda speach at the mtv movie awards was a good idea to add to the show. It was cool to see a character act out of character...if that makes any sense.