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A Film Noir Lord of the Rings

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A Film Noir Lord of the Rings

Postby Adam Linton » January 1st, 2007, 8:30 pm

Inspired by the reflections on a Bond LOTR, I thought that I'd suggest a Film Noir approach.

I'll start off with a few casting suggestions...

Frodo - Humphrey Bogart
Galadriel - Lauren Bacall
Sauruman - Sydney Greenstreet
Wormtongue - Peter Lorre

But maybe Bogart and Bacall should be Aragorn and Arwen?

Other suggestions? Dialogue ideas?...

A fully acceptable variant of this idea would be a related but purely literary approach: the saga of Middle-earth as Raymond Chandler would have told it.
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Postby A#minor » January 2nd, 2007, 1:41 am

Here's a few pictures that I edited for Filme Noir LotR! Not really great work perhaps, but it gets the message across.





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Postby Adam Linton » January 2nd, 2007, 2:56 am

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Postby The Pfifltrigg » January 5th, 2007, 2:16 am

No, I wouldn't cast Bogey as Baggins: Bogey's Aragorn. Jimmy Stewart is Faramir (or Eomer), Lugosi as Grima...
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Postby contra mundum » January 5th, 2007, 8:46 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » January 5th, 2007, 9:42 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby contra mundum » January 5th, 2007, 9:59 pm

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Postby Adam Linton » January 5th, 2007, 11:22 pm

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Postby A#minor » January 5th, 2007, 11:52 pm

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Postby The Pfifltrigg » January 8th, 2007, 9:46 pm

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