The intriguing aspect of the story is that Tolkien never meant for the Ring to be Gollum’s obsession, but the importance of the Ring grew even within Tolkien’s mind as his books progressed, and suddenly Gollum’s possession of the Ring became much more monumental to the story. Even after his entire life had been destroyed by the Ring and he lived in the mountains in the utter blackness, Gollum was furious when the Ring finally passed into Bilbo’s possession. Sméagol longed for the Ring out of pure human desire, but eventually dissolved into a mutated half-life that survived on slimy fish and goblin-flesh. Ironically, it did not start out this way. However, he desires the Ring to accomplish these goals and believes that he cannot survive without it. Gollum’s needs are simple: he wants fresh fish and a safe place to hide from the goblins whenever he can. His demise was deserved, and as the final bearer of the Ring, their collective death resolved the climax of the series. Gollum had no one to blame but himself for immoral actions, and gave in to his desires for the Ring rather than reject them as several other characters have managed to do. Frodo forgives Gollum at the end of the series because he believes that Gollum was not entirely at fault for what he did, that it was the power of the Ring that forced him into this destructive madness. Though Hobbits do not normally live nearly 600 years, his consumption of the Ring and his descent into the mountain with its unnatural power allowed him to survive until 3019, when he fell to his death, fittingly with his precious Ring, into the fires of Mount Doom. Born in TA 2430, Gollum’s original name was Sméagol, descended from one of the earliest Hobbit races, the Stoors. He is acknowledged by many of the characters in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and especially, The Lord of the Rings, and even more are vaguely aware of his presence, but he creeps across Middle-earth in secret, perpetually hunting in the darkness for his precious. "Absolutely, which is fine by me," Serkis said.Gollum is a forgotten and broken tangle of destructive behavior. "The irony of being sort of the face of performance capture acting is that your face isn't actually that well known," said Mason. He just directed the second unit for "The Hobbit," as well as starring in the film: The studio's first major production will be a film of George Orwell's "Animal Farm," which the 48-year-old Serkis will direct. The actor performs within a computer-animated world.Īttached to a steering wheel device Serkis holds - a "virtual camera" with which he moves around the set - is a monitor that can tap into any angle from the 80 cameras, allowing Serkis to conceive of entire scenes as he shoots them. Serkis became so enamored with "performance capture" technology that he has opened his own studio, Imaginarium on the grounds of Ealing Studios.Įighty cameras positioned all around the Imaginarium stage send out infrared pulses that read the markers on the actor's suit, which become "virtual bones" of the character's skeleton. Serkis played Kong in Jackson's film then Ceasar, the intelligent chimp who leads a revolution in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's film, "The Adventures of Tintin." "I mean, Andy's too good to just let back into the boring old world of live action," Jackson said. Though Serkis may have expected to return to "regular" acting, Jackson came at him with his remake of "King Kong." He started acting in college and built a steady career in films like "Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll," playing rocker Ian Drury, and "13 Going on 30," playing Jennifer Garner's boss.īut "Lord of the Rings" changed everything. He built a hospital out in Iraq, which is now in what was the Green Zone." Serkis grew up in Ealing, in West London, brought up by his mother, a teacher, while his father worked in Baghdad. "And literally after a few days of doing that, I remember going into the restroom and looking in the mirror and Gollum was there! It really was very bizarre." I was sort of looking at it and thinking, 'Wow.' "You know, when I was lifting up my right hand Gollum was lifting up his right hand. "I remember the first day of putting on a motion capture suit, and seeing a very rudimentary, grey-shaded version of Gollum," Serkis recalled. "He's very courageous and he's not afraid of performance capture." "As an actor, Andy is very brave," Jackson said.
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