How Elijah Wood Pulled Off A Hollywood Miracle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Like most young actors that strike gold and catch the break of a life time, when Elijah Wood was wrapping up his time as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, there were many roads he could have taken. Not wanting to be soley thought of as Frodo Baggins, Elijah Wood set out and crafted one of the more interesting careers in Hollywood. Never forgetting his roots in Lord of the Rings, Elijah Wood wanted to create new, weird, and interesting works that showed he was capable of a wide range of characters and stories. A big project like Lord of the Rings might ave been it for most up and coming actors, but Frodo had other plans.
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He pulled a Daniel Radcliffe: make a shitton of money and then fuck on off and do whatever movies you want for the rest of your life
Yeah, and both of them are my favorite actors because of it :)
I watch movies only because Radcliff play in them. They are not always amazing, but are always interesting and fresh.
how have they not done a movie together? i honestly feel like they're kinda interchangeable sometimes (not in insult! i just feel like there's an idea there that no one has taken advantage of yet)
They did this SAME video about Radcliffe fairly recently
More like Radcliffe pulled an Elijah Wood since Wood got the opportunity to depart his franchise a few years earlier. I love the paths they decided to take.
Wait ... Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe are two different people? My ... mind ... blown.
Elijah Wood's performances are very nuanced and understated. He's one of those actors who can do a lot with just his expressions.
He's a great actor but he was miscast as Frodo, with this sad, forlorn vibe. Frodo is supposed to be cheerful and perky, not brooding and morose.
he balanced the movie well. a cheerful and perky protagonist doesnt work for a major motion picture. He strung along the burdensome narrative perfectly if you ask me. Same thing was done to Legolas in comparison to his book-personality, and Gimli as well. It just works in the film medium@@ErikBramsen
@@ErikBramsen I'd say that it was more the scripts/direction than the actor's fault. I think he was great for Frodo because of his expressiveness, and Frodo is a difficult character to pull off in live action because most of his conflicts are internal ones. The problem is that the scripts gave him little more than sad/contemplative moments. But in those he was perfect. His performance in Mount Doom, when you can see his expressions changing from effort to let the Ring go to desire is just incredible.
Really? I thought frodo seemed pretty dogged through most of lotr, eg the riders of Rohan. Bilbo was more light hearted in the Hobbit but that was for kids
@@ErikBramsenWe see him be very cheerful in the early scenes in The Shire, so we know he wasn’t miscast. It’s only after he starts going on his adventure that he becomes more serious and sad. And that’s definitely the mood that Peter Jackson wanted to convey, and not really Wood himself.
I think Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe should do a film together, they're definitely two incredibly unique actors that broke free of their typecasting, it would be amazing to see them together on screen.
Hell hire them for the Robert Pattinson Batman movies and then you'll have 3 great actors that managed to escape Hollywood's grip on the kind of roles they get.
I'd watch it
Agree with this completely. I despise that fact Pattinson gets so much crap for Twilight. I hated those movies but he's a fine actor and has done some excellent stuff since them.
Now hear me out: include DiCaprio and Chamalet as one who escaped the beau trope and one who is currently fighting his ass off to escape it. It would be the ultimate teen magazine sunny boy turns character actor f*ckfest.
Soundtrack by Justin Timberlake and the masterpiece is done.
Radcliffe has not escaped. and Pattinson definitely hasnt. They will always be Harry Potter and the Twilight guy
Folks tend not to remember but it’s an understatement to say the LotR fandom was uneasy when Elijah Wood was cast as Frodo. Really, at best it was questioned whether he was up to playing a central role and at worst was not respected. I followed the making of the films obsessively at the time from the moment the rumors first came out that the books were being adapted.
All I can say is the turnaround was absolutely remarkable, with fans gradually starting to hear that Elijah was a reader of the books and then that he was so committed to getting the part that he created some kind of professional audition tape. Then the first film came out and from then on his acting journey has gone into legend. He is really beloved by the community.
And he always shows up on comic cons
@@Max1990Power I’ll always remember that after the Oscars the team ditched the official party and went instead to go celebrate with their fans at the One Ring party, normal folks and not the Hollywood elite. Class act. These movies were made special by the people. It was a special time and era.
I sure wasn't one of the doubters. Elijah Wood caught my eye in Ang Lee's Ice Storm (1997). Wood was so amazing in that film, when I heard he'd been cast as Frodo I knew *immediately* he was gonna knock it out of the park.
Just wanted to share that Elijah Wood in the miniseries, Over the Garden Wall, is fantastic. I highly recommend it!
So amazing. I watch it every year.
It's a ROCK FACT!
And the movie Everything Is Illuminated is a masterpiece. One of my favorite movies of all time.
TRuee his va work is good
@@wilfulbuckle13 In this house we HONOR TRADITION
(watching over the garden wall every year in October)
I met Elijah, and he was a very nice person. He was also the shortest man I've ever met, and I worked near a horse track.
And yet he’s an inch taller than Harry Potter. 😊
Lol that`s hilarious
Lol. He's like a 5 centimeters below average height. Do you live in the Netherlands? xd
Shorter than yourself?
you must live in the land of giants
Completely accurate. My favorite role of his is not actually Frodo, but the voice role of the titular character in the animated movie "#9".
You valid asf for knowing that masterpiece of a film
@@Realrockruss It's my favorite animated movie. Too bad that Coraline accidentally made it fade into obscurity (nothing against Coraline, another goated movie).
What a great film
I wish they mentioned this movie! It bothers me so much when it goes ignored! People actually thought "Wreck-It-Ralph" was John C Reilly's first animated voice role, which literally came out 3 years after 9. So disrespectful
That film "9" is one of many that I grew up watching.
One of my favorites was him in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Such a strange and interesting show
I loved Dirk Gently! Shame that it was cancelled after second season
Yes!!!
Yea! Why do they keep stupid shows like Sheldon for many seasons and cancelled that. :/. It was sooo good and definitely could've done more.
Yes! I love that show and was sad not to see even the smallest of reference to it
Goodness, but that show had an intricacy few writers would dare.
I love this enthusiasm for the horror genre. It's so rare that we get a big star who openly supports that genre like Wood has.
He played such a sinister villain in Sin City. His character was a svelt young man named Kevin who serial murdered only beautiful prostitutes. Stellar performance.
I also liked The Faculty.
@@brianjones9780I genuinely had no idea that was him until I saw this video
@@michaelvigil3436bro what gets me is his name is fuckin Kevin. Like, yo you remember Kevin? Oh you mean that guy who murders prostitutes? Yeah that Kevin.
Agreed, I promote the he'll out of Cooties any time there is a conversation about zombie movies or Elijah Wood.
How dare you....Green Street Hooligans was actually amazing!
Thank you!!!
Yes it was! I paused the TV cast to get here & comment & scroll for other people as offended as I am lol.
I was so offended when he said that
I loved that film. My opinion is a underrated gem of a film .
I feel like he was referring to GSH not pulling in a big box office in a more general sense? At least I hope that's what he means, anyway.
He was already famous even before Lord of The Rings but i think Green Street Hooligans cemented him as versatile actor.
I was hoping i would find someone here who also enjoyed GSH
@@seriomarkjThat movie rules!
Them using that movie as a detraction from him irked me. That's a great movie and I loved him in it.
To call Green Street a miss is actually blasphemy. That films a classic here in the UK. It single handedly inspired a new generation of football hooligans after it died down in the 90s😂
One of my favourite movies.
Dirk Gentlys Hollistic Detective Agency was brilliant. Wilfred was brilliant. Yellowjackets is great. Hell, 98% of everything he touches is great. Behind the scenes or in front of the camera. He's definitely my favorite person in the industry.
And one of those dudes I'd actually hang with and I'm sure become best friends with. Basing this off his interviews and his actual interests as a whole. And a limited interaction I had with him at Bonnaroo close to 10 years ago. Ran across him in the campground at like 2am and said hey. And we smoke a cigarette together and went our own ways.
Yes! Dirk Gently I loved!!!
Why do they only have 2 seasons?
@@myshepspud1 Because we are not yet worthy. Well - I should say society is not worthy. You and I are, of course. ;)
Yes Dirk Gently was amazing and criminally canceled too soon!
Makes me happy to know he voiced Wirt in Over the Garden Wall
I watched that for the first time recently and he was so fun! The entire show was super cute.
recently realized this and now I need to watch Over the garden wall again
Such an underrated show.
By far the coolest thing Elijah's done is being Todd Brozman and joining the Douglas Adams Cinematic Universe.
Yes!!!!!!!!! I mean, yes! I got really into Douglas Adams as a teen his books helped broaden my mind and Todd/Elijah are perfect made for his outlandish clever humour. Why does it seem like Netflix aren't doing another season??? Why do we have the shiz we do have about serial killers and not more seasons of that.
@myshepspud1 omg same! Douglas Adams really made an impact on me too as a teen! However, the thing with Dirk Gently was that Max Landis, one of the showrunners and also cute little son of Mr John Landis was exposed for being shady (highly recommend googling) and ultimately the show was canceled due to that and not "low viewership" :( i could rant about that awful man for may whole life because of the pain thay caused me, so im just going to add that after the cancelation he got to make a big action movie for Netflix with Will Smith that kind of served as a cover up but was also destroyed by the press because of how AWFUL it was :)
How I wish we had at least one more season of Dirk Gently.
Literally just comment the same thing about DGHDA
Totally loved that clever show, I've watched both seasons multiple times
Dude made it big with LOTR, expanded to DJ-ing and voice acting, started a record label and is now an amogus space bean.
Dudes got range.
Green Street Hooligans is a massively underrated movie. If you haven't seen it you really should.
0:59 Of the hobbits, Sean Astin was definitely the most well established actor. He'd already had almost two decades of acting experience with many starring roles, both as a teen actor and an adult. I don't really think he could be called obscure at all, even back then.
Ok, but, when will he wear wigs??
I think we first need to establish the fundamental question: does he wear wigs?
@@thejakerybut Wood he ??
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Has he ever worn wigs?
😂
Does he wear wigs?
Green street hooligans is a masterpiece, the only reason it didn't catch on very much is because football wasn't that big at the time in the US.
To be honest it still isn't. Anywhere outside of the big coastal metros doesn't really care about soccer.
was coming here to say that, Green Street Hooligans is a great movie..
Football is *huge* in the US
Soccer isn’t lol
@@gregbors8364 😭🤯😭🙏
@@gregbors8364he’s obv not from the us and everyone else in the world calls it football.
Jesus! I can’t believe the LotR trilogy wrapped up 21yrs ago now😭
Also, Elijah Woods as the Penguin?! I never would’ve imagined it, but I NEED to see it now. I hope it’s released!
Great retrospect! What keeps Elijah moving forward after 35 years is his range of acting from childhood into adulthood and his genuine love of cinema. He didn't wane after LOTR because he continued to do what he does best. I believe the true root of his success is his mother.
One of my favorite stories from his child-acting days was how he ended up presenting an Oscar at the Academy Awards show in the mid-‘90s. Originally, it was Macaulay Culkin, but his dad Kit called the showrunners a week beforehand and demanded a significant pay raise over the standard basic rate. They told him to f-k off, then called Elijah’s mom. She told them to send over his lines, and had him at the dress rehearsal where he nailed the delivery, as he later did on camera. The next day, the story was all over Hollywood, and both Elijah and his mom had earned a lot of respect in that town overnight for their sheer professionalism.
@@kathyastrom1315 I love this story too. 12-year-old Elijah went on stage and delivered the entire segment by himself... except for T-Rex.
He’s also done a lot of voice acting! I was shocked to hear his voice the first time I watched Over the Garden Wall. 👌
I love "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" and like Wilfred a lot. He has my attention for any project.
I have a soft spot for The Faculty, but Over The Garden Wall is my favorite project that he's been a part of.
Wood and Radcliff had such unique but such similar trajectories.. and I'm so hear here for how they both paved their paths! I hope to one day get a movie with them together :) and if you haven't seen Wilfred, it's weirdly wholesome! You go Elijah!
His "more recent" projects on Netflix are actually quite good, like "Dirk Gently" and "I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore"
I respect him a lot for going the way he did.
It takes a lot of courage and a special strength of character to willingly chose to go the path he has taken.
And his effort are one of the seeds that is keeping cinema alive, with the "modern blockbuster" formula going into cardiac arrest, the movies he did and is helping to be made are the ones we sorely need to keep creativity alive.
You forgot to mention his role in dirk gently's holistic detective agency, which was amazing
My favorite role of his besides Frodo is actually his role in Dirk Gently, a very weird little known scifi comedy series. If you haven't heard of it, give it a watch its quite enjoyable and Elijah plays a very deep, very flawed character that I wasn't sure he could pull off but did so spledidly!
I love him in I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore as the barely-social hero/sidekick to Melanie Lynsey's hero/victim
I wish they had continues that series, it was really great
Its brilliant
@@stevecarter8810 And they worked together on Over the Garden Wall as Wirt and Beatrice too.
@@CeartGoLeor86 I did not know that was her, thanks!
Seriously, his character from Sin City is one of my all time favorites. I flipped my lid in the theater when I realized it was him.
I remember really enjoying him in Green Street, i don't even like football but that film was a fun watch.
Kudos to whoever cuts these gems together !
They are getting better and better. Cheesy, tongue in cheeky and so much fun...
It makes me watch your vids more than once.
Green street Hooligans was deifnetly not a miss! Its an amazing movie that perfectly depicts the 00s football world. I absolutely loved it and Elijah in it
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has been my favourite roll for him. He was great in that, mostly playing it straight for all the craziness to shine around him. He's one of my all time favourite actors.
Don't you dare say Green Street Hooligans was a miss. That's an under the radar great movie and he was fantastic in that role.
He also voiced the main character in the show Tron: Uprising! Amazing work! I hope he does more for Tron!
I can't take this Deep Impact slander sitting down, that movie is severely underrated.
Fantastic movie. Hit's me in the guts. =)
One of my favourite disaster movies. Elijah is so sweet and earnest in it
How dare you talk ill of green street
Green street hooligans is one of my favorite movies ever! How dare you trash it. Maybe i'm alone in this, but watching frodo in a brawl was awesome
Green Street Hooligans was a miss? I saw it like 10 years ago but remember liking it
him and daniel did the same thing. didnt even try to beat typecasting just went off to do weird indie movies and bit parts because they could
and we love them for it.
nowadays im more exited to see what role they took on then the actual movie their in simple because i know their roles going to be interesting.
I'm of the fortunate few who was introduced early to Elijah as a child when I was only a few years younger than he in the Good Son. The movie freaked me out as an 8 year old, but there was a sincerity and grounded believability in his portrayal that really opened my young eyes to what good acting might look like even from a young age. I am tremendously happy to see he not only grew to a successful actor, but maintained and honed his passion enough to rocket into superstardom with LOTR and well beyond. Hope to one day shake his hand
Great article, now I know why Spectrevideo is doing so well. Also the video context/cuts with the dialogue are *chefs kiss*. Fantastic editing, well done.
Pretty sure Elijah Wood was also The Killer in Sin City... which was a REALLY creepy role.
And to his credit, he's got a lot of range and acting skill, so he's earned his post LotR career.
That was in the video, though.
Agree he has a "i can do what I want" career cause of Lord of The Rings. He did a great job in a remake that was different yet better than the original "Maniac" Clifford was a bizarre yet interesting FX show as well
Green Street hooligans is one of the most underrated films ever
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
He's throwing shade at two of my favorite Elijah Wood movies, lol. Green Street Hooligans and Deep Impact.
I am ashamed to say I havn't seen Green Street Hooligans but I love Deep Impact.
@@1Dreamking same. I also enjoyed, and preferred, his performance as Huck Finn. Guy could have been an iconic Peter Pan too, if he wanted.
Oh, wait, there was Child of the Night, but that was referencing Peter Pan. Still was cute in the suit.
My favorite was the Good Son...
Serious misses??? Green Street Houligans was actually awesome! Surprisingly good.
He's done so many diverse and insane movies. What choices.
Green street hooligans is a miss? What? Srsly? What
😂 I was also, WTF ???
He did 121 movies and series, more than most actors.
I think something that made Elijah be able to "escape" being type casted for his work on LOTR is that he never shied away from them. He loves Lord Of The Rings. He goes to a lot of the conventions. He embraces his work is Frodo. And I think because of that, it's a loud him to pick up other work. Instead of hating on it or despising it if it has anything to do with fantasy or medieval. On top of just being a great actor.
I binged the extended version of the trilogy & about to read the book then you post this 🧐🔥
My favorite Elijah woods project will always be wilfred. That show is so underrated
It doesn't compare to the original Australian version. The American version I couldn't watch, and I've been a fan of Woods since he was a child actor.
I need to see that audition tape
Yeah, I've been searching it up with no luck
There are many reasons that the LotR trilogy has been one of the biggest successes in pop culture history. But a huge amount of this was due to the phenomenal levels of work that the actors had to go through. Many of the actors were injured during shooting. Some really badly. Yet they just shrugged it off and went right back to work after first aid was applied. Compare that to some of the so-called "actors" in The Rings of Power, who couldn't stand the slightest hardship. One of them actually needed emotional therapy after filming a fight scene. Give me a frickin' break. So, yeah. the entire cast of LotR was absolutely incredible. I'm not surprised that Wood has made such a career for himself. Good on him. And I thank him for giving us such a good performance in his movies.
Wilfred is one of the most underrated series I have watched to date... I absolutely loved it and wished there was more like it!
I love green street hooligans. Its one of the best films ever about the dark side of fan culture
Shame there was never a third season of Dirk Gently.
1:st season was perfection. Second was ok, but that mostly so because it was covered by season ones great shadow.
I still would have loved a third season and fourth...
Kevin from Sin City is one his most memorable roles to me. His silent performance is incredibly terrifying and bone chilling.
We are close in age and I have been following his career since I first saw North and The Good Son when they were new. I got Really excited when I found out he is a also a record collector, moreso when I found he is a horror devotee and started making his own. If you haven't seen Cooties yet, please do. One of the best horror-comedies of the last decade.
green street hooligans is awesome, wtf
Can't believe he was In Red Vs Blue
Nooooo you missed over the garden wall 😭😭 such a beloved animation that he voiced a main character in.
Ugh, yes!! When I saw he was attached, I had to watch, and now my sisters and I watch it every October. It's soo good!
Unfortunately a lot of people don't treat animation or voice acting with the same respect
Got to meet him last weekend. Extremely genuine, friendly fella.
He been famous a while even before lord of the rings
I remember him in roles in Huck Finn, Oliver Twist (AFAIR its the version with Andy Serkis as Sikes from 1999), and "the War" (with Costner) and the Avalon (great movie) and the Ice Storm (also good movie). And the Good Son. These were good roles despite his age. But I never heared of him before LOTR, only when they announced the cast of LOTR I started to search for the previous roles of PJ cast :)
@@TallisKeetonI remember watching Fellowship for the first time and thinking "it's that kid from The Faculty!" haha. Good to hear he's still got a thing for the horror genre.
@@cariandiyes, The Faculty is also one of my fav of his roles :) But I love most roles of most of PJ cast (including those horrible movies B-class or C-class where I can see JRDavies - I just search for Davies roles as he is so rare to find in good movies so I would watch even bad movies just to see him) :) and I've watched many movies with Wood, Astin, Mortenssen, Weaving, Tyler, Otto, Urban, Hill and Lee but most of all I guess I've watched with McKellen, Holm and Blanchett - with those 3 rather even more movies than with Wood. Actualy McKellen, Holm and Wood were the first whose movies I searched for a lot becouse I remembered McKellen and Holm from older movies long before LOTR, and Wood and Astin was another part of my searching - some of those movies I already seen of course like some of Lee, Mortenssen and Holm movies but never remembered the names of the actors and I begun recognising those names only after they were in LOTR.
Ummm greenstreet hooligans was awesome
You had me from "Hobbits are sneaky.." lol I've always loved Elijah Wood. He chooses roles that are so different from each other, its always exciting to see what he is doing next
Elijah Wood seems like one of the most genuine and creative people in Hollywood. I love how daring he is. And he's such a fantastic actor. Giving us the Frodo he did was a gift, but the fact he kept branching out and doing all these weird and wonderful things, and supporting other creators shows he's a truly admirable man. Great retrospective! Hope we continue to get lots of odd and fun performances from Elijah
TF?! Green Street Hooligans a miss? Are you allright? That movie was amazing (well the first one at least).
Green Street is a bit of a cult classic here in the uk
If you haven't seen them - The Faculty and The War both featuring Elijah Wood are two awesome films that are great young adult films.
Woah, nice video. But you can't just hit me with the "It's done, it's over now." clip 7:57 . I wasn't prepared for that right now. That scene usually hits me in the feelings after hours and hours of watching the trilogy, not after barely 8 minutes😂
Sean Astin was not an obscure actor before lord of the rings
Big facts! Even if you can only name Goonies or Rudy, that’s hardly obscure.
Green Street is a cult classic tho
Elijah has gone _gently_ through _the faculty_ and has indeed succeeded in gaining an acclaim. Hope he doesn't stop surprising people (if it's what he wants)
From the first time the casting of the Rings movies was announced, I knew they got it right. Elijah Wood as Frodo? Perfect! Christopher Lee! Ian McKellen! Every one of the actors (the ones I was familiar with) seemed like perfect choices to this long time fan of the books.
FALSE. Green Street Hooligans is AMAZING
Elijah Wood is one of the best younger actors alive. And, also a genius for his LOTR audition video. I wish that had been put on the special features of the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the trilogy. He is a true chameleon when it comes to the roles he takes.
I was already a fan of his when The Lord of the Rings came out. I used to LOVE Flipper as a kid, though in hindsight that movie wasn't very good. I also really enjoyed Deep Impact, and his character was my favorite. He also made The Faculty watchable and was the only reason I watched that movie in the first place.
Oh my--my daddy was an extra in Maniac! I almost never hear about that movie, & he wasn't as proud of that as All the Pretty Horses; I became an Elijah Wood fan after The Good Son, but don't remember knowing he was in Maniac. Thanks for the memories!
Over the garden wall is my favorite one of his post lotr works
The pun and reference game was on point in this one lol
I completely forgot about the Amazon tv series. Surprised you included it in the LotR franchise at all.
„Everything is illuminated“ changed my life
If Green Street is you flopping, you only make bangers. Love that movie 😅
Can’t forget about his performance in Over The Garden Wall
woods is one of the best actors/directors of the last few decades, i love when he get the appreciation he trully deserves. we loves art, and he loves making art!
My favorite performance under his belt is when he played “The Guy” from Spy Kids 3. Utterly astonishing performance. Trilling from when he entered the screen to when he exited. There will never be another performance like it.
Everything is Illuminated is such an amazing movie. Everyone needs to see it.
After his performance, I can't imagine anyone else playing frodo.
Green Street Hooligans was intense.
I lived down the street from him in austin for a year and a half. He was a super nice guy and had no problem answering my fanboy questions.
Hes one of the greats .. makes every role so believable and genuine.. my favorite is Green street hooligans .. such a great role and film .
the "share the load" will always be connected to that spider scene
He always turns in a spectacular performance.
Hard to believe you didn't mention Elijah Wood's role in Ang Lee's Ice Storm (1997). Wood was so amazing in that film, when I heard he'd been cast as Frodo I knew *immediately* he was gonna knock it out of the park.
The problem with why we associate Wood with Frodo is because of the sheer size of LOTR. Wood hasnt undertaken a blockbuster role since then. Its just indie films. If he decides to ever take on another blockbuster role (although his acting style and physical presence doesnt exactly make him a front-man) or if he performs in such a way that it receives widespread and mainstream critical acclaim he could distance himself from Frodo in a pretty meaningful way. But until that happens he will undeniably be most known for playing Frodo