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Dance scene was more like the Hobbits in LotR?

posted 11 years ago by jh66
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That dance scene- Irish folk music (the English have had folk music for centuries)? Why all the Celtic men in Robin's merry band?

And the dance foot moves, more like Hobbits singing, drinking and foot stamping in the Great Hall at Mordor?

I just don't get Crowe's continuous grunting and humourless 'acting' in films? He has zero charisma, ability or humour.

Sean Bean or Daniel Day-Lewis would have been far better, ability and looks-wise.

[–] syntinen 11 years ago

Why all the Celtic men in Robin's merry band?

I suspect somebody had some vague notion of 'An Englishman, a Welshman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk into a war...'.

But I agree that having the happy peasants of the 'little village of Nottingham' (FFS, I could forgive the Hollywood makers of Prince of Thieves being pig-ignorant about English geography, but Scott is from the North-East, and surely knows Nottingham was no village, and wouldn't have had a sheriff if it had been!) playing Irish music was stupid.

[–] pol-edra 11 years ago

And the dance foot moves, more like Hobbits singing, drinking and foot stamping in the Great Hall at Mordor?

I think you're confused on several counts: Mordor is the name of a land so IN Mordor; but we never see any Great Hall there, and even if there were, no merry dancing would be taking place there, least of all by hobbits. The only two hobbits who venture into Mordor are way too exhausted to do much besides plod on stubbornly. Besides, I hear Sauron hates dancing. The last Nazgûl who tried to moonwalk across the courtyard of Orthanc was cast into the fires of Mount Doom.

I think what you had in mind was either the dancing hobbits at Bilbo's birthday party or at the local inn called The Green Dragon (all of which happens in the Shire), or the scene in which Pippin and Merry dance and sing in Edoras, which is the capital of Rohan - it would certainly fit better with your recollection of a great hall.

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[–] jh66 11 years ago

Yes, I'm no LotR expert, Rohan Hall was the scene I was thinking of- exactly the silly jollity dance seen in this film. To Irish folk music? Lol

Not exactly medieval Nottingham.

[–] Unayok 11 years ago

Totally agree with all the comments in this thread.
Also, Peper Harow is a real place - only it is in Surrey, 150 miles from Nottingham.
Why relocate it up North for this film?

Ridley Scott created true masterpieces in Alien and Blade Runner, but his "historical" dramas just come across as corny. The lighting in those two sci-fi films is up there with the best in modern cinema. Yet, there was a basic mistake on the D-Day landing sequence. It was clearly shot in broad daylight with a filter to make it look like it was dark (I thought that technique disappeared in the 70's?) Anyway, filtering has the unfortunate effect of making *all* things darker, incuding the signal fires lit on the beach. Instead of burning brightly, they were so dull that the ships wouldn't have seen a thing!

[–] jh66 11 years ago

That's true actually, a very outdated technique which always annoyed me when watching those old films!

So much is wrong with this film, despite my trying to leave my apprehensions at the door. Crowe is dull and average, the Celtic overtones in medieval England?

I would have preferred Michael Sheen to play John, too. An amazing actor!

[–] Daenerys-Stormborn 11 years ago

Its like watching an angry little dwarf dance!!

Bulls make money, Bears make money, Pigs? They get slaughtered!

[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 11 years ago

Whenever there's a big medieval celebration scene like that, I always keep an eye out for an amusing little detail and, sure enough, there's one guy, all in beige, I think, skipping like Pee Wee Herman along the bottom of the screen!

Awight we're The Daamned we're a punk baand and this is called Carn't Be Appy T'day!