So if you didn't know about Aragon deflecting a thrown daggar behind the scenes lore; it was "accidentally" a real dagger that Viggo was able to deflect.
He was also committed toethod acting and livig in the rough to look amd feel more like strider really would.
My theory is that the crew was a bit annoyed with him(im sure they liked him cus he was a generally nice guy apparently aside from being smelly and dirty for the realism) and allowed a live dagger on set.
Like that was someone's job. Prop master and continuity people. Someone messed up or intentionally tried to teach Viggo a lesson.
u/Alternative_Try_426, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...
> toethod acting
Was this a typo or a reference to him breaking two of his toes when kicking the ork helmet?
To method acting
Haha not intentionally but now I'm leaving it in there cus I was thinking about that
Where did you get the 'it was a real dagger' part from? The story is just that the aim was off.
That story is wrong, too:
Mortensen's facility with the sword became immediately apparent. "The people who were teaching him said that he was insanely talented," says Miranda Otto, who plays the Lady Eowyn, who falls for Aragorn. "There's one scene [at the end of] the first film where a knife is thrown at Aragorn, who clocks it with his sword. One of the stunt guys who was meant to be his double said, 'I've been practicing that and I've never been able to [hit the knife] once, and Viggo hits it on the first take. I hate him.'"
Why do you feel this is gospel and everything else is wrong.
Miranda said, that the stunt guy said, that he was impressed vigo did that.
Why would the stunt man practice and practice, never get it right. then they just go, fuck it. Vigo. You got this right? Full send.
We have first person account from the guy who threw it saying, yeah I fucked up and almost killed viggo Good thing he's talented.
DVD commentaries. Though human memory is not infallible and I think it's more entertaining this way.
There is an interview with the ork who threw it. Dude was supposed to aim wide. Vision was impaired. Chucked it
Edit; here's the damn link https://youtube.com/shorts/-2Dke3CgHJ8?si=BHAdZUETSsXnzi2m
I recently had it revealed to me that this story doesnt really exist anywhere. People report on it as if it does, but there's nothing concrete on it.
Seems the real story is on the first take he managed to swat a prop dagger that was intentionally thrown at him.
There are plenty of interviews with the guy who threw it. What do you mean 'the story doesn't exist anywhere?'
Well, now I dont know what to think, lol. I think there's still room for that to be overstated though. That it was still just a prop dagger and not Viggo literally swatting a sharp blade away.
There wouldn't be a sharpened dagger on set.
It was pointy and metal but not sharpened.
It was on the extra content on the DVD release 20 something years ago.
The actor told that story himself though, I've seen multiple clips of interviews on YouTube. And he said he couldn't properly see through the helmet/mask
None of that had anything to do with him willingly picking up a real dagger that the prop tan put down?
Feel free to post links.
I have a feeling we have someone that also believes their related to a Cherokee princess
ETA: waiting on any of the flat earthers to link the interview. Especially u/Wordly_Lunch_1601 that runs her coward mouth then blocks the person she was talking shit to.
Still no links hahaha
It was supposed to be a real metal dagger. He was supposed to look before throwing. Seriously watch the guy who did it say what happened.
I didn't block anyone. Posted a link. Not a woman? Or flat earther? Wtf are you talking about?
Yeah, because no one was talking about if he willingly picked up a real dagger. You just added that bit for whatever reason
I would have if you weren't so fucking condescending
Keep yapping Don Quixote
Would you have though?
Mortensen's facility with the sword became immediately apparent. "The people who were teaching him said that he was insanely talented," says Miranda Otto, who plays the Lady Eowyn, who falls for Aragorn. "There's one scene [at the end of] the first film where a knife is thrown at Aragorn, who clocks it with his sword. One of the stunt guys who was meant to be his double said, 'I've been practicing that and I've never been able to [hit the knife] once, and Viggo hits it on the first take. I hate him.'"
Feel free to post your link to the Uruk interview. His name is Lawrence Makaore if that helps you find it.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-2Dke3CgHJ8?si=0NVL8ihFQxzPvgqw
First hit. I searched "ork knife throw aragorn"
This is a well known easy to find clip
Thank you! That's part of my theory too. Why else would someone willingly try to hurt Viggo? It was a prop team prank imo. No one wanted him hurt just a lil scare
Bro it wasn't a prank stop with this narrative.
No one willingly tried to hurt him. He just threw at the wrong Mark cuz he was blinded.
I thought this was the place for unpopular takes aha
There's a difference between an unpopular opinion and just making shit up
Not a very big one lol
I was under the belief these things were true though
An opinion is how you feel about the facts
At opinion is not facts.You just f****** made up
I didn't make anything up. I genuinely believed it was a real dagger and made an opinion about why.
The major difference is subjective vs objective.
You dont get to have an opinion on the objective reality we share, you get to have an opinion on the subjective views you hold about the reality.
So, for example, If I was to say that it was really lame that he swatted the knife away with his sword, that would be an unpopular opinion on something that happened.
But if I was to say he never hit the knife away with his sword, thats not subjective, thats not an opinion, thats a factually wrong statement. He objectively did that, so its objectively wrong to say he didnt.
Your post is the later, its not a subjective take on something that happened, its an objectively wrong statement that is simply factually incorrect.
You can have an opinion on if math is fun, you dont get to have an opinion on if 2+2=4.
It is objectively wrong that they accidentally put a real dagger, its objectively wrong that this happened because he pissed off the prop team. These statements are not subjective, they are false.
Im allowed to be stupid and misinformed. I genuinely thought this happened and that I was cooking.
Nobody said you were not allowed to be stupid or misinformed.
Im not saying you are going to jail, just explaining that nothing you said involved a subjective opinion.
Even if everything you thought was true was correct, it would still not have been a subjective opinion.
If there is any possibility of discovering the correct answer it is not subjective, its objective. Your statement is either true or false, it has no subjectivity to it.
I feel really dumb cus I thought it was facts I was making an opinion about and I still don't understand how I wasn't doing that?
Is it that case of looking at a 9 and thinking it's a 6? (In this case you would be able to see the extra numbers that prove it's a 9 and I can't)
Also isn't believing false facts also an opinion or do I just not understand English 😅
Sorry I just wanna do better next time
I would have followed you to the end
"Why is the red bat even there?!"
Context would be lovely
In the Lord of the rings movie there is a scene where Aragon deflects a dagger.
I heard that it was a real dagger(this may or may not be true apparently)
If it was true I think they did it because he was so committed to method acting and was smelly and dirty on set and that annoyed people.
You think someone tried to have a man killed because he was dirty?
Lol not killed just maimed
Well that makes it a lot better
Apparently in an interview the orc's actor said he couldn't see thru his helmet very well. I think the prop team didn't account for this and just thought a real dagger would be a message about how that kind of realism isn't always best when you're on a team trying to film.
Same armorer as Rust