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Tar-Palantir · 01-17-2003, 05:10 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Gandalf's nose is FAKE! I didn't realize that! It looked so real! I know it was supposed to, but.... OK, I'll stop now. <P> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That shocked me too, because they did so many closeups with it, and yet it still looked natural. Ian Mckellen said that even though his schnozz was pretty big already, by the time the long wig and the big eyebrows and the big beard go on, all his facial features photographed much smaller. <P><BR>One of my favorite movie facts was Hobbiton, and how they built it a year prior to filming so all the grasses, bushes, and trees would grow in to add to the reality of it.

01-17-2003, 05:10 PM	#11
Tar-Palantir Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: napa valley, ca Posts: 496	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Gandalf's nose is FAKE! I didn't realize that! It looked so real! I know it was supposed to, but.... OK, I'll stop now. <P> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That shocked me too, because they did so many closeups with it, and yet it still looked natural. Ian Mckellen said that even though his schnozz was pretty big already, by the time the long wig and the big eyebrows and the big beard go on, all his facial features photographed much smaller. <P><BR>One of my favorite movie facts was Hobbiton, and how they built it a year prior to filming so all the grasses, bushes, and trees would grow in to add to the reality of it. __________________ History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of men Go, go, Godzilla!