i dont think we give karl urban enough credit for his acting in this extended edition scene of eomer discovering eowyn in pelennor fields because. my goodness
Tags are fantastic, and if you’re on the fence about reading the books please know Eomer finds her before the battle ends in the original, and thinking she is dead goes absolutely feral on the enemy.
The narration is even like “newly king, Eomer says FUCK TACTICS LETS KILL ORCS, and it is not a good decision but he sure did make it emphatically.”
The thing about the acting in that, is that I have seen that wild, confused, uncomprehending horror – that look as he turns his head side-to-side just as he lifts her up – on a human face in real life, exactly once, and I hope I never in my life see it again.
It was on the face of a friend, the day after her daughter died. She was sitting against the wall of her front hallway, making a sound that I can only describe as “I can’t understand why I am still breathing, my daughter is not breathing, why am I still breathing” with her whole chest. Nothing made sense. She couldn’t comprehend what was happening. Her entire body was rejecting it beyond any rejection I could encompass.
That was the look on her face.
I don’t know what Karl Urban has seen or experienced or been told about that he could access that reaction as a performer, but it’s one of the rawest and realest things I’ve ever seen in a film. It lasts maybe a second and it punches me breathless every time.
i dont think we give karl urban enough credit for his acting in this extended edition scene of eomer discovering eowyn in pelennor fields because. my goodness
Tags are fantastic, and if you’re on the fence about reading the books please know Eomer finds her before the battle ends in the original, and thinking she is dead goes absolutely feral on the enemy.
The narration is even like “newly king, Eomer says FUCK TACTICS LETS KILL ORCS, and it is not a good decision but he sure did make it emphatically.”
The thing about the acting in that, is that I have seen that wild, confused, uncomprehending horror – that look as he turns his head side-to-side just as he lifts her up – on a human face in real life, exactly once, and I hope I never in my life see it again.
It was on the face of a friend, the day after her daughter died. She was sitting against the wall of her front hallway, making a sound that I can only describe as “I can’t understand why I am still breathing, my daughter is not breathing, why am I still breathing” with her whole chest. Nothing made sense. She couldn’t comprehend what was happening. Her entire body was rejecting it beyond any rejection I could encompass.
That was the look on her face.
I don’t know what Karl Urban has seen or experienced or been told about that he could access that reaction as a performer, but it’s one of the rawest and realest things I’ve ever seen in a film. It lasts maybe a second and it punches me breathless every time.
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