Elijah Jordan Wood - Performer For Our Time

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Monday, September 26, 2005

Elijah Wood - Huck Finn (1993) - Synopsis

Spoiler Alert True to what has been dubbed—The Great American Novel, the Disney version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens with the famous narrative voiced over by Huck (Elijah Wood) telling us that the story is mainly true with a few stretchers. (Although it omits any reference to Tom... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Elijah Wood - Green Street Hooligans - Performance as "Matt Buckner"

Spoiler Alert After playing a mute cannibal in Sin City and a geeky wraith in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Elijah Wood steps once again before the cameras, full faced and full bodied in one of his best performances ever as Matt Buckner. Looking back at all of Elwood’s many, many films,... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Elijah Wood - Green Street Hooligans - Synopsis

BIG TIME SPOILER ALERT Like two tribal villages meeting at the edge of their territories, Green Street Hooligans opens in the London Underground with the Green Street Elite football firm shouting taunts at a rival firm, the Yids, much like the Capulets and Montagues (a similar tribal clash). The... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Green Street Hooligans - Review - Elijah Wood's New Riveting Kick-ass Film

Touted in the United States as the Film Hollywood doesn’t want you to see, Green Street Hooligans crept into six theaters on September 9th and posted a weekend of gross of $48,000, that is about $7,000 per site, which Hollywood would not have believed, considering the top grosser of the previous... Sign in to see full entry.

Elijah Wood - Ash Wednesday - Review

Ash Wednesday is a dark movie with a prosaic plot line and a simple theme. But like many simple things, there are layers of complexity in the fabric of this film—mostly from the sturdy script and the superlative character acting. The viewer is given a New York texture—the old neighborhood, even if... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 12, 2005

Elijah Wood - Ash Wednesday - Performance as Sean Sullivan

Sean Sullivan is one of the more complex roles characterized by Elijah Wood. Seminal to the story of Ash Wednesday, one could say the film was about Sean. The plot pivots around his choices—the choice to prevent his brother’s death—the choice to return to the neighborhood despite the pledge to never... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 7, 2005

Elijah Wood - Ash Wednesday (2001) - Synopsis

SPOILER ALERT It’s Ash Wednesday, 1980 New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen at night in a bar. The prolog has members of the Moran Gang planning to hit Francis Sullivan, son of John Sullivan, the right hand exterminator for Whitey, the neighborhood’s Irish godfather. Unknown to them, Francis’ younger... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 1, 2005

Elijah Wood - Oliver Twist (1997) - Trivia and Notes

Here are some interesting notes about Oliver Twist which have appeared in various trivia questions on Internet boards or could well appear. The Artful Dodger is one of three classical literary roles that Elijah Wood has created, the others being Huck Finn and Frodo Baggins. Oliver Twist was made for... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Elijah Wood - Oliver Twist (1997) - Review

Charles Dickens has been served amply on film with all but two of his epic Novels (Dombey & Son and Barnaby Rudge) committed to at least one film. The Novella A Christmas Carol has had at least 20 treatments, and close behind it is Oliver Twist. Unfortunately, the Disney TV Oliver Twist does not... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Elijah Wood - Oliver Twist (1997) - Performance as The Artful Dodger

The role of Jack Dawkins (The Artful Dodger) in Oliver Twist (1997) was Elijah Wood’s first adult characterization; although the Dodger is a teenager in the Novel—Elijah chose to create a full-blown adult interpretation. Unlike the two other literary characters that he inhabits ( Huckleberry Finn in... Sign in to see full entry.

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