LOTR - Science Museum Exhibit
Last Update: 16 Sep 2003
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- Source:
- The Lord of the Rings, The Making
of the Movie Trilogy by Brian
Sibley (Houghton Mifflin Co, November 6, 2002)
- "We get strange requests here at
Weta," says Prosthetics Supervisor,
- Gino Acevedo, "including five days
to produce a lifelike dead
- Boromir!"
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- The body was required for the scene
in which the fallen warrior is
- laid in an Elven boat by his companions
prior to being sent on his
- final journey over the Falls of Rauros.
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- It is unnervingly authentic, but how
was it done? Gino explains: "We
- already had a head cast of Sean Bean
from which our workshop
- supervisor, Jason Docherty, made a silicone
mold. By pouring melted
- plastine clay into the mold he got a
perfect copy of Sean's face,
- which was passed to one or our top sculptors,
Ben Hawker, who worked
- out the features in order to make them
a little more gaunt.
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- "From this amended sculpture, Jason
made another mold of the whole
- head, and I mixed up a pale silicone
that we use in replicating skin
- and poured that into the mold which
was left to cure overnight. The
- next day, Jason unmolded the head and
I painted it in very pale. dead
- skin tones.
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- Once it had been painted, Boromir's
head then went to Gavin Skudder,
- one of our hair technicians, who meticiculously
punched in the hair,
- beard, and mustache, a strand at a time.
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- So authentic was the result that when
the body had been lying around
- on the set for an hour or two, an unsuspecting
technician
- thoughtfully enquired whether Sean oughtn't
to be offered something
- to drink."
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- Tolkien sets new record
By Laura Smith, Evening
Standard
15 September 2003
Epic trilogy The Lord Of The Rings is the subject of the Science
Museum's most popular exhibition ever staged - before it has
even
opened.
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- More than 14,000 tickets, worth £150,000,
have already been sold for
- the show which opens tomorrow.
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- It lifts the lid on the science and
special effects behind the films
- of JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. Visitors
will also see the costumes,
- including the flowing robes of Princess
Arwen, played by Liv Tyler,
- and the downsized outfits of the hobbits.
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- On the gory side are severed orc heads,
wizened feet, ears and teeth
- and intricate armour and weapons used
in the films' many battle
- scenes.
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- Two models - a five-metre high Cave
Troll and a life-size Boromir
- (played by Sean Bean on film) were specially
made for the
- exhibition.
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- An interactive exhibit explains how
the characters appear to be
- different heights, and there are also
demonstrations using computer
- generated images. Fans can even "morph"
into a hobbit and take home a
- souvenir photograph.
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- Richard Taylor - who won two Oscars
for the films' special effects
- and make-up - oversaw the transfer of
the exhibition from the
- National Museum of New Zealand.
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- Organisers hope some of the actors will
visit when the final film in
- the trilogy opens in December. The exhibition
runs until 11 January.
Opening hours have been extended to 9pm at weekends but advance
- booking is advised.
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