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Richard Taylor - The Loudest Man in New Zealand?
Posted Feb 23, 2003
So, halfway through the "Design Team" commentary on FOTRx at the moment. Fascinating stuff, especially hearing from the conceptual artists Alan Lee and John Howe on their ideas behind the look-and-feel of Middle-earth. But could someone please turn the volume down on Richard Taylor (Weta Workshop head honcho, responsible for all the props, prosthetics, weapons etc)? Maybe he's more than slightly deaf, because EVERYTHING HE SAYS SEEMS TO BE LOUDER THAN IT REALLY NEEDS TO BE. The problem is that Alan Lee is a very quiet man - it comes across in several featurettes on the DVD that he's very quiet, and quite shy. So you can't just turn the volume down: you'd be unable to hear him. Thus it's a real shock to the system when Alan Lee says something (((very quietly))) and then Richard Taylor adds something IN A VERY LOUD AND GRATING VOICE. 
If he got angry, I suspect he'd be heard on the other side of the Tasman Sea.
Currently going at one commentary every 3 weeks, have already "done" the cast and the writers/director commentaries. I find I can't watch a movie too many times in a short space of time otherwise I become overfamiliar with it. Then I can watch it again a few months later and "rediscover" it. Having watched/listened to (what is the right verb?) all three commentaries on 24 Hour Party People in the last fortnight, I think that one will be resting on my shelf for a while.
Well, bedtime calls, The Ring Goes South tomorrow. 
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Erk
Posted Feb 18, 2003
"We all lead interesting lives" it says at the top of the page for writing entries: trouble is I don't...
Anyway, I notice that the H2G2 not-Oscars-because-of-trademark-issues are open for voting here: A962354. Not well publicised, no link on the H2G2 Film Soc page itself [A270695] (which doesn't seem to have been updated in a while)...but I've found it. Now all I need to do is see a few more of those nominated films....
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