Jean Waddie wrote:
I haven't seen it yet, but I just noticed the chain mail dress on the
poster at the bus stop I stand at every day (took me a week to notice it
was mail!) I believe all the armour and weaponry was done by Weta
Workshops, who invented plastic chainmail for the Lord of the
Judy Mitchell wrote:
Jean Waddie wrote: I believe all the armour and weaponry was done by Weta
Workshops, who invented plastic chainmail for the Lord of the Rings
films.
yes. they slice up pvc pipe and use it for the rings in the maille.
It is very light and looks amazingly good. so much
yes. they slice up pvc pipe and use it for the rings in the maille. It
is very light and looks amazingly good. so much better than 'string
maille'. It was striking in the way it draped, wasn't it!
Though there was string maille in the very background shots of LotR;) I know
some people who wore
this is supposed to be a country without humans, so they probably
didn't exactly have a lot of human coronation gowns laying around, nor
garment-makers with tons of experience at making human clothing.
Somebody was making gowns for the Queen, plus dwarves and giants wear
clothes, so even if
Not to mention that surrounding Narnia are countries where the predominant
critters are humans.
~Kimberley
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From: Cynthia Virtue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:43:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [h-cost] narnia movie
Cynthia Virtue wrote:
Somebody was making gowns for the Queen, plus dwarves and giants wear
clothes, so even if they didn't have specific clothing, there would have
been supplies and skill of some level.
I found it odd that the children were able to change clothes in the
camp also. I mean,
Ok, I agree that the queen's first dress was majorly weird, but I
actually liked how the dreadlocks looked, i thought they were cool. of
course, I (a blond blue eyed white girl) had dreadlocks once so i
obviously like them.
jordana
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I thought the witch's dresses towards the beginning looked very odd
(especially the weird sticking-out-six-inches-at-the-back thing) but I think
the material it was made of was pretty well chosen; it looked more like it
was sort of magically grown than made, which strikes me as right.
I did
Okay, so who saw The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe this weekend???
The kids' 40s costumes looked good to me. The king and queen costumes at the
end -- blech. There was a lot of great armour, and some really beautiful
tents. Susan's first Narnia dress was particularly nice, the other kids'
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From: Gail Scott Finke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:46:20 -0400
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Subject: [h-cost] narnia movie
Okay, so who saw The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe this weekend???
The kids' 40s costumes looked good to me. The king
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