TIL: Peter Jackson made the decision to model one of the orc leader's face mask after Harvey Weinstein

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/05/elijah-wood-lord-of-the-rings-orc-modeled-harvey-weinstein

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RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 161 pts · 68d (5 replies)

No orcing way....

Weinstein orc

Whaddaya orcing know...

Weinstein

I can sort of see it.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 79 pts · 68d (4 replies)

What a hideous monster. The orc is pretty ugly, too.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 68d (2 replies)

Orc: “I’m not THAT evil!”

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 68d (1 reply)

"Yes, I follow the dark will of Sauron, but I don't rape people! That's just sick!"

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 68d

i can EXCUSE saurons evil, but i draw the line on harvey weinstein.

tacotroubles@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 68d

Hey thats pretty offensive. That comparison is cruel to the orcs

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 112 pts · 68d (6 replies)

Courtney Love once walked past some microphone-wielder at an event, who asked if she had any advice for aspring young women in the business. Her friend muttered something to her and you can hear her reply, "No, he'll sue me," but then after a second she went back to the mic and said, "If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a party at the Four Seasons, don't go."

BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 68d (2 replies)

courtney love they could never make me hate you

w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 67d (1 reply)

Try the roast of Pamela Anderson. It'll make you hate everyone involved.

BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 67d

i watched it years ago, but i was 13 so i was the target audience lol

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 68d (1 reply)

I do wonder how much of the Courtney hate I've seen over the years was started by Harvey over that.

militaryintelligence@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 67d

"Hard to work with" is Hollywood code for "This chick wouldn't suck my dick in my office"

quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 67d

30rock had a couple of jokes giving some hints.

9point6@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 68d (16 replies)

Weinstein also threatened to replace Jackson with Quentin Tarantino or John Madden

Hahahahahahaha can you imagine

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 68d (10 replies)

Lots of close-ups on hairy hobbit feet.

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 68d (2 replies)

Arwen stepping on an orc's balls, with the orc played by Quentin Tarantino of course

Windex007@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 68d (1 reply)

And Arwen played by Uma Thurman

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 68d

wouldnt she be eowyn.

terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 17 pts · 68d (4 replies)

Samuel L Jackson as Gollum, Buscemi as the Mouth of Sauron

chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 68d

Buscemi would have been a legit excellent Wormtongue or Denethor.

Boardwalk Empire really sold me on his range as an actor.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 68d

Y'know... I'd watch that

the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d

You're out of your depth, Wormtongue!

TastyWheat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d

This made me think of what Gilbert Gottfried would have been like as the Mouth of Sauron

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 68d

You know it’s be Galadriel or Arwen.

Also, he’d definitely cast himself as the guy who calls the orcs the n-word 17 times.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 68d

I really wanted a Tom Bombadil taking off his boots scene.

Then we could have a scene of Goldberry sloshing through a muddy stream with her feet, in front of a grunting old man willow.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 68d (1 reply)

John Madden

like this?

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cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 68d

Ok I would watch this, it would be terrible on the best possible way

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 68d (2 replies)

John Madden

...the handegg guy? 🤔

ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 68d (1 reply)

The Shakespeare in Love guy

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 68d

Not a much better fit tbh 😄

Maultasche@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 68d (3 replies)

While a lot of people think it's Gothmog or the Orc Inspector, according to the mask's sculptor Michael Asquith it's actually this background orc

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 68d (1 reply)

the resemblance is uncanny.

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sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 67d

TheyreTheSamePicture.jpg

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 67d

I thought it was Gothmog.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 68d (4 replies)

One orc among many in the Lord of the Rings movies was designed to resemble Harvey Weinstein as a “sort of fuck you” to the notorious producer, Elijah Wood, who played the hobbit Frodo in the series, told a Hollywood podcast.

Wtf is this opening paragraph

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 21 pts · 68d

You did know that Elijah is a notorious producer?

lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 68d

Gave me whiplash

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 67d

Well at least you know a human wrote it since it’s such a disaster lol.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 68d
sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 27 pts · 68d (1 reply)

This was recently spoken about because Dom [Monaghan] and Bill [Boyd, who played hobbits Merry and Pippin] … were talking to Sean Astin [Samwise] about his first memory of getting to New Zealand [where the series was filmed].

Truly written for the layperson.

drolex@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 67d

What the hell is a hobbit now?

Eh_I@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 68d

Bummer of a thumbnail for Elijah there.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 68d (1 reply)

Why does PJ look so much like Elijah Wood?

Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 68d

Now that you mention it, I've never personally seen them in a room together...

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 68d (1 reply)

I don’t know how he has done it. Before LotR, he was largely unknown. After LotR, nothing big came out. So I understand that film studios were hesitant, as so many people try to pitch their ideas as the next billion dollar movie.

It just had to happen. And it would have never been as successful with Miramax or with only 2 movies. Everything just perfectly fit, something that probably isn’t going to happen again in our lifetimes.

roofuskit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 68d

You know we have this thing called IMDB. It could really fill in your gaps in this situation.

stray@pawb.social · 2 pts · 68d (1 reply)

20i21

Cliff@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 68d

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