Why did Stuart Townsend turn down Aragorn?
12-19-03 | 12:12 PM
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Originally posted by jekbrown
oh brother, EVERY time i see crowe... on screen, in character, or at an awards show ALL i think is "oh look, russel crowe:"... [yawn]. the guy has about as many different characters as Jack Nicholson has over the last 10 years.
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oh brother, EVERY time i see crowe... on screen, in character, or at an awards show ALL i think is "oh look, russel crowe:"... [yawn]. the guy has about as many different characters as Jack Nicholson has over the last 10 years.j
12-19-03 | 01:25 PM
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maybe its just me... or maybe its because hes become "too big". i hardly EVER remember his characters name from a movie anymore... its just "russel crowe". I agree completely that crowe would have drawn more attention away from the other major chartacters and that would have been a cinematic crime. Watching the dvd extras and seeing the amount of dedication viggo put into aragorn makes it clear to me that his aragorn is superior to anything RC woulda kicked out.
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12-19-03 | 02:10 PM
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Crowe is a fine actor but he would have been wrong, wrong, WRONG for Aragorn. Viggo's mix of toughness and kindness was just perfect. Crowe doesn't do 'sensitive' very well, and he couldn't convince me of the self-doubt Aragorn has to go through.
12-21-03 | 12:07 AM
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Originally posted by too much
Tom Selleck was set to play Indiana Jones but he was already in contract to play Magnum P.I. Much like Pierce Brosnan couldn't play James Bond (in the mid 80's) as he was already in contract for Remington Steele (which got cancelled shortly after).
I guess the key is don't get involved in a series that has a name that sounds like a gun.
Tom Selleck was set to play Indiana Jones but he was already in contract to play Magnum P.I. Much like Pierce Brosnan couldn't play James Bond (in the mid 80's) as he was already in contract for Remington Steele (which got cancelled shortly after).
I guess the key is don't get involved in a series that has a name that sounds like a gun.
12-21-03 | 09:32 AM
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Originally posted by Rivero
If Crowe had done these movies even more emphasis would have been taken from the hobbits and placed onto the "Hollywood superstar".
If Crowe had done these movies even more emphasis would have been taken from the hobbits and placed onto the "Hollywood superstar".
PJ said that he changed the story just enough to make a transition to film interesting.
