Time Network News "The Lord of the Rings: The Messenger of the Rings" 4K remake began to be released in the mainland on Friday, and the box office of more than 26 million in the first weekend was not high, but it still fulfilled the big screen dream of many fans. There are many charismatic characters in this movie, and Aragorn, played by Vigo Mortensen, is undoubtedly the best. There are many anecdotes about Vigo playing Aragon, such as he had not seen the original book before taking over, and it was his son who urged him to take on the role.
Stewart and Vigo
Director Peter Jackson and the crew initially chose Stuart Townsend to play Aragon, and for this role, Stewart trained for two months, only to be sent home two days after entering the group. In the movie, Aragon claimed to be 87 years old, and Stuart, who was less than 30 years old at the time, had a baby face, which was really less of the vicissitudes of a ranger, but after filming, he found that the actor was too young to control the weathered Aragon.
The crew urgently approached Vigo Mortensen and asked him if he would like to go to New Zealand to shoot The Lord of the Rings, and Vigo had never read the book at all, and without much interest, he just said to consider it on the phone (a bit like a "dinner another day").
The crew very much wanted him to act, so they begged him not to think about it too long and give him a reply that afternoon. Coincidentally, the phone call was overheard by his son Henry, who was a Lord of the Rings fan and urged his father to take over the role, which led to the later story.
Vigo and son
Recalling the experience, Vigo Mortsen added that he had read not only the original Lord of the Rings but also some Norse mythology on a 13-hour flight to New Zealand, which he had benefited greatly and felt that the younger generation of actors could read it today.
Vigo Mortsen also revealed that when he came to the crew to save the scene, he fortunately shot an action scene first, and slowly entered the state before filming a literary drama, because it was too late to read the script. However, for martial arts, Wei Guo is very serious and refuses to stand-in many times. A fight scene made him knock out a tooth, and the director was going to suspend the shooting of the day and take Vigo to the hospital to fill his teeth first, but he said: "No need, you give me strong glue, I can still shoot." Jackson took advantage of the crew's lunch break and rushed Vigo into the car and went straight to the hospital.
Handsome sword
The aragonese sword, the prop master originally prepared a lighter and more agile aluminum sword for Vigo, as well as a rubber sword that was not easy to hurt the actor during the fight. But in order to pursue the truth of the effect, Wei Guo used all the scenes to use the iron sword that is not light, in Wei Guo's view, once the light sword is changed, the action of power and fighting will all be distorted, and the effect of the character presentation will be greatly reduced.
Bob Anderson, who directed the action for the Lord of the Rings series, is a British fencing master who has seen Vigo's calm and powerful moves and praised him, "He is the best swordsman I have ever trained", in fact, before filming this series, Vigo had never used a sword at all.
The book writes that Aragon grew up in Rivendell as a teenager, and Viggo read the script and realized that if the lines were all in English, it would be loose, and using elf language and elf dialogue was more in line with Aragon's growth experience and story logic. Although the Elven language was created by Tolkien, it is completely difficult for the language-gifted Vigo, and it is not difficult for him to seamlessly switch between English, Spanish and Danish, and it is not difficult to learn more Elven language.
Now that even the film has been released for 20 years, looking back on this period of time, he thanked the audience for his recognition, and he still modestly said that the first time taking on this role was really hurried, and there was still room for improvement in many places.