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...know, it’s kind of sad. Viggo Mortensen, one of the great under-appreciated actors of the last decade, finally finds mainstream success with The Lord of the Rings trilogy (even in a part that was not even his when filming began) and then follows up three years of countless magazine covers and nonstop press with Hidalgo, a Disney movie that couldn’t get much more cliché if it included Mickey Rooney’s Mr. Yunioshi character from Breakfast at Tiffany?...
...suppose Mortensen’s natural attraction to the movie’s material can be excused—raised on a ranch in Argentina, the future king of Middle Earth rode horses throughout a good part of his childhood. In fact, Mortensen did most of his own riding and stunts for Hidalgo, and after shooting for the film wrapped, he bought the horse used in the film. However, despite his partiality towards all things equine, Mortensen could have—indeed should have—followed his star-making turn in The Lord of the Rings series with...
...LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Directed by Peter Jackson Starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen...
...king in the story is the hunky human warrior Aragorn (Mortensen). But Jackson is the true lord of these Rings. The New Zealand auteur spent seven years on the trilogy, collaborating on the scripts with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. He chose and directed this perfect cast, orchestrated the smashing visual effects--Tolkien's bestiary on the march in fantastical realms. In Return, the giant trolls, four-tusked elephants and flying, screeching serpents of Mordor will amaze adults and may startle small children. The spider monster Shelob, creeping up on Frodo and mummifying him in a silken straitjacket, offers...
...that's Tom Cruise), but he has jumped Cruise and Tom Hanks in many directors' casting wish lists. "He gets offered everything--or everything good--first," says an agent. (Crowe turned down the Hugh Grant part in About a Boy, the Laurence Fishburne part in The Matrix and Viggo Mortensen's role in The Lord of the Rings, among others.) But where Hanks and Cruise insinuated their way into moviegoers' hearts by exuding amiability on-and offscreen, Crowe has pulled off a far more unlikely trick: he is one of the world's biggest stars and is frequently perceived...