dachosmin:

smokesprite:

viggo mortensen’s appeal as aragorn is 70% the voice, 25% the scene where the wild horse saves him from drowning, 12% hair, 8% ‘the beacons are lit!’, 3% swinging around the broken blade, 1.03% spitting soup back into the bowl on a windy day, .3% the way he speaks elvish (which mostly fits into the voice, but its elvish so its special), and .0004% when he kicks the orc head and screams

This is blatant “smoking a pipe with his hood on in Bree” and “shoving the double doors of helm’s deep open” erasure and I will not stand for it.

I think kicking the orc head deserves more than a fraction of a percent when you factor in that:
a) He wasn’t meant to kick the head but did it in the moment because he’s that *~extra~* and wears his feelings on the outside
b) In doing so he actually broke his foot
c) Rather than swearing his head off and calling for a medic, he fucking leaned into it and transformed his actual agony into performance, and that’s the take that’s in the movie