I'm in the mood to be That Bitch.
1. He did camp out in his gear. They were deep into filming and he was playing a frantic game of Catch Up. This will be important later. Also, almost the entire cast and crew camped out to get the sunrise shot during the race to find Merry and Pippin. It wasn't that weird.
2. You got me here. All I know was he was trained with a full sword -QUICKLEY- and wanted to match the stunt guys.
3. Again, he did something like 2 nights camping to get a feel for the costume. Ripped out stitches and redid them himself so it could be seen. The fishing was the night they ALL were camping.
4. They wanted to do the stunt on the river bed, that meant becoming a co-worker with an unfamiliar horse. It takes a minute. And yes, they got along famously. He also bought Arwen's stunt double her horse in the film because she couldn't afford him.
5. If it was small enough, yes. But this goes back to him doing it deliberately for the look. Which had the approval of the costume department.
6. It was a joke. It was not glued back on by crew. He went to a dentist and was back shooting in the afternoon.
7. Bob Anderson (i might be wrong on his name, to lazy to check) choreographed e v e r y b o d y who held a sword in a movie for many decades. It's a he'll of a compliment, especially when you add no previous experience and an extreme time crunch.
8. E X T R E M E T I M E C R U N C H. There was a local diner or pub that he went to just about every day that had a spot for him to keep the sword so nobody tripped. The cops were called in the first few days because he had to make up for the first 3 months of practice he Did Not Get.
9. Many of the stunt coordinators were quite impressed with him. That was a planned shot. When the stunty tried to show Viggo how to do it, he couldn't get it. They were going to scrap it and that's the accident. The guy did it the old way and Viggo just knocked out of the air. OF COURSE they kept the shot.
10. Again, if your actors do something great, it goes in the movie. Why is this a question. For a bunch of those running shots, Viggo had his toes, Gimli stunt double (Brent?) had bad knees and Orlando had a cracked rib from a horse stunt they kept in the movie.
11. Yeah, that scared the shit out of everybody.
They filmed this for over a year. Several second directors, can't remember the actual title, multiple locations at the same time. Everybody on Helm's Deep went a little off, that's where to headbutting came in. Astin was hurt. Bean does not fly in helicopters so he got dressed and ready and climbed the damn mountain every day to film in the snow. It took him over 2 hours and he did most of it in the twilight because he had to start so early.
And every damn person in that movie gave it everything, actors to crew. Why do you think it still looks like a billion dollars 25 years later??
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