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Viggo won the Empire Icon award, which was presented to him by none other than Sean Bean. You can see the video of his acceptance speech here:


Viggo wins award from Empire Magazine


How about you all do me a favor and watch the video? (It won't be a chore because really, it's hilarious.) What I'd like is for you to tell me - Is Viggo as completely shit-faced drunk here as I think he is? Because, even given his normally strange manner of speech, this is just nuts. Not only is he slurring his words, but Christ on a crutch! He goes off on these weird tangents, and just...O_o.


Oh, and I think you're going to like the V/S hug and kiss. (Holy cow, Sean looks WAY better than Vig. Just sayin'.)

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Here is the first set of screencaps from the film Alatriste. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Unax Ugalde, and Ariadna Gil, and is based on the books by Arturo Perez Reverte. The film is a pastiche of elements from several of Reverte's books. Viggo plays Capitan Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, Unax plays his ward, Iñigo Balboa, and Ariadna plays Alatriste's lover, the actress Maria de Castro.

As previously noted, the caps will first be posted without comment, so please enjoy these artful images.


( Part One )


Feel free to save and use them if you like. Credit would be nice, since it took a long time to do all this, but not necessary.

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Tonight I went with my dad to the American Cinematheque presentation of Alatriste, Viggo Mortensen's newest film. ( Review follows... )

For the past half hour, I've been listening to "Gone" from pandemoniumfromamerica. I just keep repeating it over and over. Fascinating.

You know, regardless of Elijah's stated feelings about actors who insist on trying to be recording artists (which I deeply appreciate, by the way), I gotta say I wish he would record. He has a beautiful singing voice. I'd heard him sing now and then as an actor, of course, and I wasn't ever impressed, and now I realize it's because it was always a character singing. It was never Elijah.

I'm especially impressed by how different his voice is than I expected. Total cliche but true: I expected him to sound much younger, lighter than he does. (Ridiculous, ain't it?) But it's deeper and richer than I thought it would be. There's a bottom in there too, nice dark layer underneath that tells me his voice would get better with age. It gives the impression of a voice that would get more profound as it experienced more of life to sing about.

*goes off to listen some more*

Me: Heehee! Great typo on the TORn homepage:
Me: John Howe has put up Biggo Mortensen's insightful introduction to his new book, 'John Howe Artbook' at his website.
Undone: biggo
Undone: eheheh
Me: Biggo? Hm. I wonder if Orli could confirm that.
Undone: HARHAR
Undone: and if so PICTURES PLZ