

Serkies declared that the desperation and avarice in his acting was based on the experience of heroin addicts.

The character was created following the facial features of Serkis, while his moves were reproduced using a mix between motion capture and the traditional process of keyframing.įun fact – For his performance, Serkis won “best virtual performance” at the MTV Movie Awards. In the trilogy of Peter Jackson, Gollum is a computer-generated character and his voice and moves were performed by the actor Andy Serkis (a polyhedric actor, who gave his moves to King Kong too as well as to the monkey Cesare in the last remake of “The Planet of the Apes”). As Gandalf says in the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo’s choice to pity Smeagol and save his life may rule the fate of. In 1952 Tolkien himself was one of the first to give his voice to Gollum: his interpretation was highly appreciated by the critics. The action of Lord of the Rings also hinges on Gollum. Gollum appears in several films and radio adaptations of “The Lord of The Rings”. Tolkien must have understood his potential because, in his best-known novel, he not only gave him a starring role, but he became part of Fantasy history. In “The Hobbit”, the novel written before “The Lord of The Rings”, he wasn’t one of the main characters. While their actions reflect well on those who spare him, they also reflect the truth that Gollum deserves such pity.Gollum is one of the most loved and hated characters of Middle-Earth, created by the writer J.R.R. Readers see the proof of this on the stairs of Cirith Ungol, as Gollum reaches out to Frodo: "an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing." Three times his life is spared by the pity of those who could kill him, each time after Gollum has attempted murder. Frodo reaches this spark, reminding Gollum of his life as Sméagol. The Ring has corrupted him, but his tragedy is that he is not beyond hope - a spark of goodness survives, crippled by his gnawing obsession with the Ring. Even without the danger of being strangled in one's sleep, Gollum's constant sniveling, groveling, hissing, and talking to himself would grate on anyone's nerves. Sam finds him a singularly unpleasant travel companion, and readers agree. Corrupt and vindictive, he cheats, steals, lies, sneaks, and betrays. Characters variously describe him as "wretched," a "vile creature," a liar, a thief, and a murderer - all of which are quite true. Gollum does not receive many compliments in the text.


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