My LOTR story. From the book and then into a movie, from 2001 to 2003...Went to see it in the cinema three winters in the row, pre-christmas time in london. The 3rd one of the trilogy, i watched it once in london and once in kuala lumpur. 1st time i read the book, it was during summer 2001 and i had a nightmare of the 9 nazguls chasing after me and some other people i dont even know. And when i saw the 1st movie for the 1st time, i was literally jumping over my seat when i saw those ring-wraiths on the silverscreen and they amazingly looked similar to those in my dream.
I never knew Viggo Mortensen would look much much better in dark hair and stubble on his face. From that moment onward, i started to admire his role as Aragorn, and i even had 1 Empire Magazine Wall poster featuring him riding the horse as in the 1st picture.
I guess i do adore viggo as aragorn rather than he as himself. He was ok in Hidalgo, but i think LOTR trilogy really made a star out of him. He was the baddie in G.I. Jane but Demi Moore stole the limelight. He slept with Gwyneth Paltrow in A Perfect Murder but he was still overshadowed by the movies' other significant cast, Michael Douglas.
Many big hollywood stars started just like him, either as a supporting cast or extras. For eg, Matt Damon 1st made his screen debut in Steeling Magnolias, Paul Giamatti as the hotel bellboy in My Best Friend's Wedding, Philip Seymour Hoffman as that chubby,grungy looking guy named Dusty who shouted "loser!" at Cary Elwes in Twister, Cynthia Nixon was a maid in Baby's Day Out before she turned into successful manhattan lawyer with attitude, Miranda Hobbs in Sex and the City.
A tribute to Viggo Mortensen for having successfully turning Aragorn Son of Arathorn into life and made him an unforgettable character in LOTR alongside with the other casts. Kudos to Peter Jackson who applied that Star Wars formula by using less stellar casts to play huge characters only to eternalize their images forever in everyone's mind.
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