"Just a Dream"

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TITLE="Osgiliath: Leaving"><U>Osgiliath: Leaving</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=340 BGCOLOR="#CC9900" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Just a Dream"</B></I></div> <div> New website, new movie, might as well start from the beginning (before we start jumping around).  Besides, what other actor could you show waking up for 40 frames and actually have something to <I>talk </I>about?</div> <div> The trick here is that Frodo doesn't just go from being asleep to being fully awake by popping his eyes open.  He's waking from a dream--and to make it even more complicated, from a nightmare.  Nightmares take place during a part of the sleep cycle in which our bodies can actually respond to what we're experiencing, which isn't usually true in regular dreams.  And Frodo definitely responds.  </div> <div> What Elijah's eyes go through here, especially in pics 5-10, is another "How does he <I>do </I>it?" moment for me, seemingly related to the times when, say, his eyes roll back into his head.  Dreaming, slipping into unconsciousness, acting nothingness, dead hobbit moments...  all pretty amazing, if you ask me, and all in somewhat the same way.  Each one uses actions that aren't normally under our conscious control.  So, how <I>does </I>he do it?</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="waking_top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>1</B></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="00ccd2d0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <B>2</B></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="00dce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <B>3</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="00ece2b0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>4</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="00fce2c0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>5</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="010ce2f0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>6</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="011cd2a0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="298" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>7</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="012ce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>8</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2cecd2c0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>9</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="014ce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>10</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="015ce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>11</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="016cd2a0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="298" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>12</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="017ce180.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="280" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>13</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="018ce210.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="289" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Even after he startles himself, Frodo's not fully awake.  He jerks up so that his face almost disappears from the screen (not shown), but then comes back down again, still in the dream--calling Gandalf's name.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>14</B></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="019ce2f0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <B>15</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="01acd2a0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="298" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>16</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="01bce2b0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>17</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="01ccd2a0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="298" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>18</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="01dce2c0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>19</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="01ece2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>20</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="01fce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>21</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="020ce2f0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>22</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="021cd2c0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>23</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="022ce2c0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then he begins to actually wake up.  It's not instantaneous...</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>24</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="023cc2b0.jpg" border=0 width="716" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>25</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="024ce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>26</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="025ce2f0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>27</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="026ce2f0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>28</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="027cd2a0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="298" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>...but by the time we see Sam's head come into view, Frodo's fully awake--and fully aware of the horror of his dream. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>29</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="028ce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>30</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="029ce2c0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As he settles into reality, we get another of those complicated blends of emotions:  pain, disbelief, realization, fatigue, grief, discouragement.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>31</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="02bce2f0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="303" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>32</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="02ace2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>33</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="02cce2c0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>34</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="02dcd2a0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="298" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then he seems to fall back into the horror of it...</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>35</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="02ece2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>36</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="02fce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>...which is possibly what Sam's arrival pulls him out of?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>37</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="030cd2b0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Not drawing him back to happiness, but to a kind of resigned acceptance.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>38</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="031ce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>39</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="032ce2d0.jpg" border=0 width="718" height="301" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>40</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="033cd2c0.jpg" border=0 width="717" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" 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