"Just a Feeling" 3

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=85 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="006dba33.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="009ef530.jpg" border=0 width="239" height="83" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 1"><U>"Just a Feeling" 1</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 2"><U>"Just a Feeling" 2</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><B>"Just a Feeling" 3</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 4"><U>"Just a Feeling" 4</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 5"><U>"Just a Feeling" 5</U></A></div> <div>  |    <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us"><U> home</U></A></div> <div> back to  <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling"><U><B>"Just a Feeling"</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=395 BGCOLOR="#99FF00" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="81824243.gif"> <div>     </div> <div> "Just a Feeling" 3</div> <bR> <div> <B>From this point on, none of the screencaps are cropped.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I've put in a few frames of Sam's reaction to Frodo's announcement that he doesn't think he'll survive the quest.  It looks very much like the reaction of a parent to a child's announcement that he can't sleep because there's a monster under the bed.  He seems to be taking the statement more as an unfounded fear than as a moment of wisdom or foresight.  An understandable reaction - for a parent who doesn't yet realize there actually </B><I><B>is </B></I><B>a monster under the bed.  What I see on his face when I scroll through the caps is kind of an "Oh, no, here we go again," reaction. (Commentary continues </B><A HREF="#justafeeling3_commentary" TITLE="Just a Feeling 3"><U><B>here</B></U></A><B>.)</B></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="justafeeling3_top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e0204e0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e120500.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e2204f0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e320500.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e4204d0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e5204e0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e6204e0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  <A NAME="justafeeling3_commentary"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>This was a real </B><I><B>"</B></I><I><B>whoa</B></I><I><B>!"</B></I><B> moment for me when I first saw it.  Look at how those eyebrows have shot up!  It's not dying that Frodo's worried about, but Sam's reaction.   Sam </B><B>is </B><B>in this with him, and I think he was hoping Sam understood the situation, but Sam evidently doesn't.  Movie-Frodo doesn't lay things out directly for Sam the way book-Frodo does (more than once), but I do think he worries about whether he should.  This scene is the place movie-Frodo's most upfront with Sam about his expectations, and maybe the complete failure of it kept him from trying to say more.  These two friends don't have the "Mr. Frodo is always right," relationship that the book characters do; Sam trusts his own instincts as least as much as Frodo's, and has to come to this realization on his own. </B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="8e7204f0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8e8204d0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8ea204d0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="8eb20500.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="142" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#justafeeling3_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 3"><U><IMG SRC="02e7d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 4"><U><IMG SRC="03c7d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 2"><U><IMG SRC="0bc7d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>