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Elijah Wood was miscast as Frodo
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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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I disagree, but I do agree that the character of Frodo wasn't what it could've been.
There's a bit in the behind the scenes stuff where they're recording that part at the very end, Frodo finishing the book and then admitting to Sam about his stab wound never really healing.
They do a take, and Elijah is delivering his lines in that absurdly slow, sleepy way that is both annoying during a watch but endlessly memeable afterwards. And then Peter Jackson is all like "ok let's take it again but this time even slower"
So tldr I blame Jackson for depicting the character as so frustratingly wet.
Good point on your part. For my part, he has never been Frodo for me. Not after reading the book so many times since I was a tyke. I don't think Elijah is a bad actor, at all, but he never fit Frodo, at least in my mind. Not in temperament nor in look.