The Death of a little bit of heart.
I went and saw the second installment of The Lord of the Rings saga, "The Two Towers" for the second time this afternoon. All I can say is that the warning shot has been fired across the Actor's Guilds bow. With the advancements in CGI technology it will only be a matter of time before the people we see on screen are not humans but the product of a computer geeks imagination. Gollum is so realistic that there is no difference between him and the rest of the actors. Richard Taylor, the person responsible for the on screen birth of Gollum says in an interview at GreenCine that, "I believe he's successful not because he's a technologically advanced piece of digital filmmaking, but because ultimately, it's a performance with heart and soul. Fundamentally, that's what we're registering on the screen. I'd like to suggest that very quickly, you stopped analyzing his technical achievement and accepted him as a member of the cast. So often with digital characters in the past, you can't help but continue to analyze them and their technical prowess throughout the length of the film, which detracts from the film." Can anyone say Oscar for Mr. Gollum?
Added to that the special effects involving thousands of computer animated, artificial intelligence orcs, that respond to sound, and you've got at least the first nail on the coffin for at least "The Extra". Good Luck and God bless, "Mr. Fourth Man waiting in line at the supermarket." Nice knowing you, "Ms. Bored Housewife getting her hair done at the salon" Adios, "Rotting corpse on the riverbed!" And without them where would we get our fix of Clint Howard?
Is he real or Memorex?
8:08:00 PM 
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