Posted: June 02, 2000 at 19:47:30: by Michael Martinez
: : Tsk, tsk. How quickly people forget. They were always going
: : to use about 16,000 extras. Remember, they wanted to involve
: : the New Zealand army before it went abroad for peacekeeping
: : duties.: Now I am worried that we will be hearing NZ accents in the
: background throughout the movie! Elves speaking with British accents will be extremely unnerving to me (alongside Viggo speaking with a flat American accent), but I'm sure they'll cover up the background actors' voices with what's called looping, where voiceovers are done in post-production (something often done anyway, where scenes are filmed on sets with poor sound quality). There is actually a company in Hollywood (or there used to be) called The Loop Group, whose actors provide voices for crowd scenes and similar work.
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