Monday, July 4, 2011

Evolution of a Character: Hugo Weaving as Elrond

I am finally getting around to doing this...I have been busy this past week, and just got back from visiting family in Seguin today, which is always a good time. I figured that I would try and do this instead of playing PS3 before going to bed. So you can either thank me, curse me, or feel indifferent toward me. This edition of Evolution of a Character is on Hugo Weaving, who has had roles in Babe, The Matrix trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, V for Vendetta, Happy Feet, the Transformers series, and The Wolfman.

Hugo Weaving was born in 1960 in Ibadan, Nigeria (that is factually correct). He lived a normal life, appearing in numerous movies until the mid 90's when he was abducted by a Scottish scientist, and his mind and soul were transferred into a sheepdog named Rex. Rex lived a peaceful life until a pig named Babe was introduced into his life and made Rex realize that he missed being human. After helping Babe win a sheep herding tournament he ran away from home, hoping to find the scientist that turned him into a dog. Instead, he found a portal that took him to Middle Earth.

While on the journey to Middle Earth, his human soul mixed with his non-human body to turn him into Elrond, the eventual Lord of Rivendell. He led the Elves with the hope of someday returning home. This hope came in the form of a questionably heterosexual hobbit by the name of Frodo Baggins. He saw the determination in the young Baggins' eyes, and the lust that his partner Rudy Ruettiger had toward him, and realized that if he were to help him then he would be able to find his way back to his home somehow. In doing this, he sent along Will Turner to try and keep Rudy's affections at bay, and help as he could from afar. After Baggins succeeded in destroying the horcrux that was created by the Lord Voldemort wannabe named Sauron, he showed his gratitude by kidnapping Steven Tyler's daughter and giving her away to Frank Hopkins to do with as he pleased. He then talked Frodo into joining himself and Magneto on a journey from Middle Earth back to his homeland, breaking Rudy's heart in the process.

While on this journey with Frodo and Magneto, Elrond was kidnapped by machines that had taken over the Earth. These machines reprogrammed him and inserted him into the Matrix as Agent Smith. Smith followed his programming by the book, but in the back of his mind he always wanted to escape and return to his home. He tried on multiple occasions to destroy Keanu Reeves, but the 'roided up Reeves was much too powerful, or Agent Smith was too much of a wuss, to defeat him. This resulted in a final battle where millions of Agent Smiths, who were created after Smith pulled a Chuck Norris and impregnated everybody on earth to create clones of himself, watched the original Smith get blown up by Reeves. This blast fried Smith's programming and burned his entire body. It also blasted him back in time to a different Great Britain than the one that he knew. This was a Britain ruled by anarchy, and so he decided to wear a mask and become the vigilante known as V.

As V, he wreaked havoc on Great Britain, but he was haunted by nightmares. These nightmares were always the same, where he is a penguin elder to Frodo and Wolverine, and he rejects the idea of Frodo marrying Luanne Platter. This hell that is spent in Great Britain is finally ended when V takes Padme Amidala under his wing. She eventually blows him up while on a train, which burns his face even worse and sends him back in time once again. He awakens badly burned in Nazi Germany and becomes the infamous Red Skull.

After becoming the Red Skull, his mind is still partially programmed from the robots, and he takes to Hitler's teachings. After eventually becoming Hitler's right hand man, Red Skull comes face to face with the Human Torch. Without bothering to find out how the Torch came back in time and gaining different powers, the Red Skull continues to try and beat him. As he is unable to do so, he is killed by the Torch and his living nightmare is finally put to an end....

...at least for now...

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