January 28 marks 40 years of Elaidge Voodoo - the American actor who remember the audience according to the role of Frodo Baggins in the Great Epic Fantasy "The Lord of the Rings". It seems that it is on the set of films Peter Jackson Wood got a ring of Vsevladia, which allowed him to reveal the secret of eternal youth. Time Out congratulates the actor and remembers its brightest roles.
Boy behind the slot machine, "Back to the Future 2"For the first time on the big screen, then another eight-year-old Elijah appeared in 1989 in the second part of the fantastic trilogy "Back to the Future". The actor played the episodic role of the boy, who met Marty McFly, who was found in the future.
According to the plot of Marty, looks at the cafe, decorated in the 80s stylistics, and sees inside two guys, trying in vain to understand how the device works from the past. One of these boys and played Elijah. Macfly suits the guys master class - and leaves them in bewilderment.
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Michael Kay, "Avalon"One of the first notable images that identify the future of Elajah became a small role in the film Barry Levinson "Avalon" (1990). The tape tells about the life and formation of a Jewish family who immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe. The actor plays the son of one of the heroes. Famous American film critic Roger Ebert, do not hesitate to make far-reaching conclusions, praises a young man: "Elaja Wood appeared, and I believe that this is the most talented actor of his age in the history of Hollywood."
Indeed, in 1991, "Avalon" received four nominations at the Oscar Prize at once and allowed Elaidge Wood for the first time to feel its popularity - albeit only in the middle of the filmmakers.
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Willard Young, "Paradise"The first significant role went by Voodoo a year later. In the center of the plot of the film "Paradise" - Lily and Ben Reed, a married couple who lost a three-year-old son. They can't return to life: "Emotional Vacuum" and the incessant pain destroy their marriage. A close girlfriend Lily sends her son to them, a decade of restless Willard, who helps spouses to re-feel the taste of life.
The Elajj Wood's game liked critics, many have called him the main star of the film. The bright image created by the actor was remembered by the audience, and the young elajah began to receive more and more tempting offers from famous directors.
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Casey Connor, "Faculty"Since the time of "Paradise" takes over 7 years. During this time, Wood has time to appear in the adventures of the "Oliver Twist" and the "Adventures of Geclberry Finn", develop their dramatic talent in the War Ribbon and light up from the director Entra Lee in the film "Ice Wind".
In 1998, the actor plays a student Casey Connor in the film "Faculty" Robert Rodriguez. The action of Grandhaus Horror takes place in the Harrington College, where the scary - the bodies of the teachers are instilled in the body of teachers and gradually take control of not only an educational institution, but also the city. Former enemies are forced to unite for the saving of their lives and future America.
Although the image of Eliji in the "faculty" was not so multifaceted, the youth horror film was successfully held at the box office and "presented" a voodoo the role of a student / high school student, to which he will not return to the future.
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Frodo Baggins, Trilogy "Lord of the Rings"The role of his life came to Elaidge Voodoo at the very beginning of the new century. It is difficult to find the main reason for the choice of Eliji to the role of Frodo Baggins in the trilogy "Lord of the Rings": age, low growth (168 cm), a young person who sought Peter Jackson previous acting work or all this in aggregate. One know for sure - neither Jackson nor Wood about this choice was not regretted. Another actor as a brave hobbit, aspiring to destroy the ring of all-in-law, is simply impossible to submit.
Despite the complex samples in which many talented young actors took part (even Jake Gillanhol), and extremely long shoots, launched more than a year, away from home, in New Zealand, Elijah Wood lit his star so brightly that it still can See at the acting sky.
It is unlikely that at least one of the audience around the world, answering the question about the leading role of Wood in his career, will call any other job.
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Kevin, "City of sins"After the "Lord of the Rings" of Elaidge, Voodoo was required to consolidate success and try themselves in a completely new, unfamiliar role. With this task, he went to the already familiar director - Robert Rodriguez, who shielded the graphic novels of Frank Miller from the cycle "City of Sin".
Wood appeared in the Novel Farewell, as a fierce glare maniac Kevin, who does not feel any pain or pity. A small, but memorable role of the villain, he proved that he was able to escape from the image of a shy student attached to him.
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Frank Iso, "Maniac"In general, the beginning and the mid-2000s for Elayj Wood - a period of dawn. After the "City of Sin", the actor managed to light up in the comedy drama "Light around", the Kolyalmanhana "Paris, I love you", British "hooligans" and the ribbon "Murder in Oxford". But then the career of Wood slowed down - until 2012, the actor did not have truly large roles, while Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" again did not burst into his life. But focusing on another film, I also released Frank Halfuna in 2012 - "Manya".
The tape is a slasher in which Frank Zito (Elijah Wood) suffers from psychological injury that does not allow him to enter into normal relations with women. Instead of the usual attraction, he experienced only hatred, so in the afternoon he is a quiet owner of the workshop on the restoration of mannequins, and at night - a dangerous maniac-voyeur, making up defenseless girls and killing them.
The main artistic feature of the film was an interesting directorial solution - the viewer observes what is happening from the point of view of the main character and sees his face only on reflective surfaces.
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However, hardly "maniac" can be considered a great acting success of Wood. The role did not return it to the first echelon Hollywood. As a result, for those who have passed since that time, 9 years of Elijah never received a single truly major role and continued to act in not very successful thrillers ("open windows", "Kutis", "Go to the daddy") and TV shows, the main one which became the project "Detective Ding Ding Gentley".