RedSparrows
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Gf and I love it. We always enjoy a Good Death and Boromir's is excellent. Heroic, tragic, good OTT villain, beloved actor (Richard Sharpe 4eva), excellent final words. 9/10 would kill again.
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EW: Sean Bean on why Boromir is his favorite onscreen death
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Mighty Chin
Banned
So good.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
They make a point of showing him strap them on, but it is still low key and wonderful.
I think they joked in one of the commentaries that Aragorn also took Boromir's wallet and money.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
It's a great moment. One of the highlights in one of my favorite movies.
Boromir is one of my absolute favorite characters in the trilogy, because he represents man as man IS (rather than Aragon who represents man as man SHOULD be, an ideal version), and Bean just perfectly nails it.
He's flawed, weak at times, but his heart is good and he will die for his friends. Bean was perfect for the role.
He's flawed, weak at times, but his heart is good and he will die for his friends. Bean was perfect for the role.
Yep. Boromir and Aragon are my two favorite characters for the reasons you mentioned
Discotheque
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His best death for sure. Still my GOAT blockbuster
Robdraggoo
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I love his death scene as boramir but I love his death scene as eddard stark more.
When he's looking up trying to find out if arya is still there watching. It's the only thing he cares about right before he loses his head.
When he's looking up trying to find out if arya is still there watching. It's the only thing he cares about right before he loses his head.
It was definitely tragic in a darker sense, that's for sure. He didn't die a hero as Ned, the way he did as Boromir. He died in captivity. A good man murdered by an insane child. I feel ya, that was a heavy moment as well and I felt sick the first time I saw it happen.
peanutbutterlatte
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Best character next to Theoden.
You're missing out if you haven't seen his extended scene with Faramir/Denethor in Two Towers. Really fleshed out the family and explained why Boromir is so easily swayed by the ring.
You're missing out if you haven't seen his extended scene with Faramir/Denethor in Two Towers. Really fleshed out the family and explained why Boromir is so easily swayed by the ring.
Reckless Abandon
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Sean Bean is such a great actor. Even in tiny roles (like Partridge in Equilibrium) he always seems to have a huge impact in his films.
This is a great point and one of the reasons I love the character of Boromir, which Sean Bean was perfect for. If he doesn't do everything he does there, that's probably it for the One Ring.
This is a great point and one of the reasons I love the character of Boromir, which Sean Bean was perfect for. If he doesn't do everything he does there, that's probably it for the One Ring.
Skellig Gra
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One of my favorite scenes of all time.
eot
Banned
Did it? They get the hobbits anyway, just five minutes later.
Maybe you're referring to something else.
RedAssedApe
Banned
what a way to go
BetterThanNothing
Member
Delays enough for Aragorn to catch up and kill the captain Uruk(the one that killed Boromir), which arguably led to the arguments among the orcs that allowed Mary and Pippin to escape. Defending them like that also dispels any doubts the enemy had of these being the right hobbits, allowing Frodo to continue without being searched for on his own journey.
DrunkShogun
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Says a lot how good his acting was when Boromir remained my favourite character in the movie after watching the trilogy. Shame a lot of good scenes were kept away on the extended editions.
Etrian Oddity
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I couldn't imagine experiencing the final/third act of FotR in theatres. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
The Salt Life
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TheJollyCorner
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Sadly both Sean Bean & Christopher Lee had some outstanding scenes that were cut. I understand why, but still- any time these guys were on the screen it was a treat.
Team Alucard
Banned
So Ironic that the one movie he survives in he's playing a character who died in the source material.
timetokill
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Boromir is one of the greatest characters in that story. So tragic, so real. My girlfriend at the time actually cheered his death in the theatre and while we kept dating for a while after that, I think deep down I knew she had no soul.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Watching Fellowship opening night (when these films were still big fat gambles and not bonafide time-tested classics) Gandalf's fall and it's aftermath was where I started to think Jackson might have pulled off a great film.
But Boromir's death and redemption is where I realized they'd pulled off something closer to a miracle. That moment had never done much for me in the books. It came and went, and always played to me more like a "you pay for the things you break" type of thing. Boromir's character was too one-dimensional in his writing for me to take that death as anything much more than that.
But Sean Bean brought him to life in such a way that the first arrow hits his chest, and mine hitches up with a stifled little sob because I know what's coming and I know it's gonna hurt now when he pays for what he broke. It never did before, but now it will. And it did.
Those last lines might be corny and earnest, but holy shit does he make me believe that he means them.
Opening night, man.
But Boromir's death and redemption is where I realized they'd pulled off something closer to a miracle. That moment had never done much for me in the books. It came and went, and always played to me more like a "you pay for the things you break" type of thing. Boromir's character was too one-dimensional in his writing for me to take that death as anything much more than that.
But Sean Bean brought him to life in such a way that the first arrow hits his chest, and mine hitches up with a stifled little sob because I know what's coming and I know it's gonna hurt now when he pays for what he broke. It never did before, but now it will. And it did.
Those last lines might be corny and earnest, but holy shit does he make me believe that he means them.
Opening night, man.
Cheesy is in tune with the rest tho, and I say it as a good thing.
I mean it's Lord of the Rings, it's not going to be the most sober thing in the world.
Zvonimir Boban
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Yeah, there's nothing wrong with being earnest.
Melon Husk
Member
Na, Boromir would have come to his senses and catapulted the ring into the fires of Mt. Doom directly Minas Tirith. His father wouldn't have lost heart had he lived.
And many nights since...
timetokill
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Also let me just say that it was bullshit the way Frodo actually offered the ring to Aragorn and he turned it down
Bullshit!
Bullshit!
Stuart Townsend (who was 26 at the time) was the original Aragorn. Imagine those two together.
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Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Probably my favorite scene in the entire trilogy. So damn moving.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
That, and cutting Bombadil. Fuck that character.
Vincent Alexander
Member
So uh...when these movies getting a re-release in theaters? I would pay good money to see them again on the big screen.
CrocMother
Banned
Oh, it's definitely going to happen at some point.
That was such a fantastic scene. Makes me smile just thinking about it.
IdreamofHIME
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His best death was the time i threw a remote mine and detonated it just as my brother tried to ambush me from a walkway on stack.
Never saw it coming.
Never saw it coming.
AuthenticM
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fucking seriously.
I saw the second and third in theaters, but I didn't care for them. I was too young, maybe. But when the third Hobbit movie came out, I rewatched the movies (the extended editions) on the following Saturday and Sunday.
It was then that I got these movies. I realized how great and magical they were. I now love them.
I want to rewatch them at the theatre now that I have a different opinion of them.
Faramir did the same. Which is why Boromir is such a great character. "What chance do you think you have? They will find you. They will take the Ring. And you will beg for death before the end!"
Saw Two Towers with a live orchestra a few years ago. It was amazing.
Chained Prometheus
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Boromir is his best death scene all around, but Goldeneye is my other favorite.
"... For England, James?"
"No. For me."
EDIT: I was just a kid in elementary school when the LOTR trilogy came out in theaters, but my dad had been a Tolkien nut ever since he was in high school in the 70's, so he took me to go see all three films when they all came out in theaters. After I fell in love with Fellowship of the Ring and wanted to know what was going to happen next, my dad handed me his copies of the books and helped push me to read the whole trilogy (after reading The Hobbit first, of course) and understand it. I was in the third grade when that happened. lmao
I also remember after Fellowship came out and Burger King was doing a promotion for the film with those collectable soundbite toys of the characters that you could link together to form the One Ring when you had the whole set. My dad literally made up excuses to go to Burger King at any given time just to make sure he eventually got the whole set.
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