![]() ![]() ![]() Mortola, along with her accomplices, broke into Elinor's house, and she got Orpheus to read her and Basta into the Inkworld, also taking Mo and Resa, believing that her son wasn't truly dead and was safely alive back where they were from. Mortola was mortified when her son, Capricorn, had been killed, and would later seek revenge on Mo and Meggie. Mortola was watching over Meggie when she was reading The Shadow out from the book, only for Darius to restrain her when Meggie began reading from Fenoglio's notes instead. Fenoglio revealed that she was actually Capricorn's mother it wasn't written within the pages of Inkheart, but being the author, he knew and remember the backstories he had for the multiple characters he created. It was said that she always followed Capricorn wherever he moved. 1.2 Vengeance towards the Folchart family.īefore being read out of the Inkworld, Mortola served Capricorn in his castle, assisting him in other ways such as brewing poisons for his use.Īfter being read out by Darius, Mortola took Basta's job as keeper of the keys for Capricorn.The actor says Dury's ultimate lesson is useful for everyone, whether they prefer reality or fantasy: "Be magnificent. One is Dury's "passion for his music and the complete and utter desire to get out there and basically shake everything up" and the other is his intense love for his family. Once again, though, Serkis' character will have walk a narrow line between two opposing forces. When Dury rose to fame, he was in some ways "too old to be a rock star," Serkis says, "but he had this brilliant, brilliant energy and fantastic ability to write great lyrics." just came out of the hippie movement." He says it's "a great story because, primarily, he was a polio sufferer and had a withered left arm and left leg." Serkis describes Dury, who died in 2000, as "the proto punk in the 1970s, when the music in the U.K. There won't be any gorilla suits or digital magic, just a character inspired by a real person. Soon, Serkis will play a role that should please even anti-effects traditionalists: that of the late British rocker Ian Dury. You know, actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever." the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup. "Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways," he explains, "down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or. Why ban someone for digital alteration and not other types of enhancements? In some ways, the current standards are arbitrary, Serkis argues. This sparked a heated debate, which is likely to intensify as more films employ this sort of digital technology. No matter how "precious" his Gollum characterization, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Serkis couldn't be nominated because it involved digital manipulation. Some say he deserved an Oscar for his exceptional bipolar performance, but that simply wasn't an option. ![]() In The Lord of the Rings, Serkis mastered another kind of terror. So, when he gets to this world, he's absolutely paranoid about being sent back into it and does everything in his power to stop that from happening, " Serkis says, adding that this involves terrorizing an entire village. "He is the character with a heart as black as ink, and he is nothing in that world of the book. The villainous Capricorn eventually decides he likes living outside the book so much that he never wants to go back. to keep his opposers quiet, you know," Serkis explains. "He's a man who enjoys what this world has to offer in terms of adornment and material goods, and duct tape is just one of the very useful things that his henchmen managed to use. As a thuggish bandit named Capricorn, he's launched from the pages of a fairy tale into the modern world when Brendan Fraser's character reads about him.Ĭapricorn spends the film adjusting to the "real world" and its simple pleasures - such as duct tape. In his latest film, Inkheart, he's once again jumping between reality and fantasy. ![]() "I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually," he tells NPR's Alex Cohen. Above, Y Company, an oil painting he created while on location for Deathwatch.īritish Actor Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Kong in Peter Jackman's King Kong, is very comfortable straddling fiction and reality. Before he had dreams of becoming an actor, Andy Serkis wanted to be a painter. ![]()
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