TTT EE - Boromir/Faramir/Denethor
Nov. 20th, 2003 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azziriaWorking my way through the new scenes again (still off sick today, although better than yesterday).
Watching the Boromir/Faramir/Denethor scene again, it seems to me such a major scene. Not only does it explain a lot about movie!Faz and his motivations (his relationship with his father, and his affection and the way he looks up to his older brother), it also sheds a lot of light on why Boromir behaves the way he does in FOTR (shall have to go back and take another look at that). Both he and Faramir are so driven by the expectations of, and their relationship with, Denethor.
After getting this short glimpse of him, I'm really looking forward to Denethor in ROTK. I went back and read how Tolkien first shows him in the book, seen through Pippin's eyes:
"Pippin saw his carven face with its proud bones and skin like ivory, and the long curved nose between the dark deep eyes; and he was reminded not so much of Boromir as of Aragorn."
"He [Denethor] turned his dark eyes on Gandalf, and now Pippin saw a likeness between the two, and he felt the strain between them, almost as if he saw a line of smouldering fire, drawn from eye to eye, that might suddenly burst into flame... Denethor looked indeed much more like a great wizard than Gandalf did, more kingly, beautiful, and powerful; and older."
"'Indeed you did your best,' said the wizard; 'and I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.'"
Tolkien depicts Denethor so clearly as powerful and noble, and yet a classic example of how evil can corrupt even those of such an exalted and noble line. For me Denethor has always been one of the most chilling characters in LOTR. From seeing this brief scene, I have high hopes that PJ and John Noble will deliver a worthy Denethor.
Watching the Boromir/Faramir/Denethor scene again, it seems to me such a major scene. Not only does it explain a lot about movie!Faz and his motivations (his relationship with his father, and his affection and the way he looks up to his older brother), it also sheds a lot of light on why Boromir behaves the way he does in FOTR (shall have to go back and take another look at that). Both he and Faramir are so driven by the expectations of, and their relationship with, Denethor.
After getting this short glimpse of him, I'm really looking forward to Denethor in ROTK. I went back and read how Tolkien first shows him in the book, seen through Pippin's eyes:
"Pippin saw his carven face with its proud bones and skin like ivory, and the long curved nose between the dark deep eyes; and he was reminded not so much of Boromir as of Aragorn."
"He [Denethor] turned his dark eyes on Gandalf, and now Pippin saw a likeness between the two, and he felt the strain between them, almost as if he saw a line of smouldering fire, drawn from eye to eye, that might suddenly burst into flame... Denethor looked indeed much more like a great wizard than Gandalf did, more kingly, beautiful, and powerful; and older."
"'Indeed you did your best,' said the wizard; 'and I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.'"
Tolkien depicts Denethor so clearly as powerful and noble, and yet a classic example of how evil can corrupt even those of such an exalted and noble line. For me Denethor has always been one of the most chilling characters in LOTR. From seeing this brief scene, I have high hopes that PJ and John Noble will deliver a worthy Denethor.
