He did a magnificent turn as Claudius in Mel Gibson's film version of Hamlet. I can easily see him conveying the nobility of the Denethor Tolkien described (Pippin's observations of him and Gandalf together are very interesting) whilst still giving us the undercurrents of pride and despair that warred within Gondor's last Ruling Steward. There was no subtlety to the Denethor I saw in PJ's RotK (or TTT-EE).
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Alan Bates as...
Date: 2003-12-29 01:18 pm (UTC)Wouldn't he have made an amazing Denethor?
He did a magnificent turn as Claudius in Mel Gibson's film version of Hamlet. I can easily see him conveying the nobility of the Denethor Tolkien described (Pippin's observations of him and Gandalf together are very interesting) whilst still giving us the undercurrents of pride and despair that warred within Gondor's last Ruling Steward. There was no subtlety to the Denethor I saw in PJ's RotK (or TTT-EE).
~Nessime