When it comes to child actors successfully navigating Hollwyood as an adult, few have been as successful as Elijah Wood. The Iowa native began his career at the age of eight years old, appearing as "Video Game Boy" in Back to the Future Part II. In the three decades since, Wood has not only amassed more than 110 film and TV credits, but he's also become a producer as well.
Of course, Wood is most synonymous with Frodo Baggins in the landmark Lord of the Rings series, a character he reprised as recently as 2012 in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
10 Paris Je T'aime (2007) 87%
In the eighth installment of the Francophilic anthology movie Paris Je T'aime, Wood plays an unassuming tourist backpacking through Europe. His life changes forever when stumbling upon a vampiress feasting on a fresh corpse.
Directed by Vincenzo Natali, the dialogue-free chapter takes a turn when The Tourist (Wood) begins to fall in love with the vampiress (Olga Kurylenko). When he falls and is knocked unconscious in an escape attempt, the Tourist awakes to find the vampire feeding him blood which turns him into a vampire.
9 Internal Affairs (1990) 88%
The third credit of Wood's career came via Mike Figgis' 1990 crime-thriller Internal Affairs, in which a scrupulous agent works to bring down a corrupt police officer in Los Angeles.
Andy Garcia stars as Raymond Avilla, an idealistic new Internal Affairs Division (IAD) Agent investigating the shady police practices of Dennis Peck (Richard Gere) and his partner Van Stretch (William Baldwin). Avilla's investigation leads to Stretch's abusive home life, where he beats his wife Penny (Faye Grant) and neglects young son Sean (Wood).
8 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017) 88%
In Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary 78/52, the iconic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's seminal proto-slasher film Psycho is recreated, broken down, and examined in great detail with the help of several actors and fellow filmmakers.
Along with archival footage of Psycho, Wood is joined by Karyn Kusama, Bret Easton Ellis, Leigh Whannell, Peter Bogdanovich, and many more to discuss the lasting legacy of the infamous shower scene and what it's meant to the history of cinema. The numerical title refers to the scene using 78 camera set-ups and 52 editing cuts.
7 The Wind Rises (2014) 88%
In the English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, Wood voices the role of Sone. He's joined by the likes of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Werner Herzog, Martin Short, and more.
The plot concerns Jiro Horikoshi, an aspiring WWI-era pilot who learns he cannot fulfill his dream due to poor eyesight. Undaunted, Jiro becomes a first-rate aeronautical engineer who helps build some of the finest war-time airplanes in the world. At its core, the movie is a love story between Jiro and Naoko (Blunt), a woman he met in flight school.
6 I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore (2017) 89%
Wood gives one of his most outlandish performances as Tony in the highly-acclaimed Netflix Original I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore, a tale of an unlikely friendship forged in the wake of a tragedy.
Written and directed by Macon Blair, the film picks up when the depressed and single Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) has her home burgled. When the police make little effort to catch the perpetrators, Ruth takes it upon herself to investigate and serve vengeance. The only help Ruth receives comes from Tony, her wacky neighbor.
5 The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) 91%
In Peter Jackson's first installment of the groundbreaking Lord of the Rings franchise, the world was introduced to Elijah's Frodo Baggins, J.R.R. Tolkien's number one heroic hobbit.
In addition to winning four Oscar Awards, The Fellowship of the Ring currently ranks #10 on IMDB's Top 250 with an 8.8/10 rating. The first leg of the epic trilogy sets up the journey Frodo and his fellow hobbits make en route to safely procure the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron. Aside from the critical plaudits, the film grossed more than $887 million globally.
4 The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (2003) 93%
According to Rotten Tomatoes and every other conceivable metric, The Return of the King is rated higher than the first franchise chapter, The Fellowship of the Ring. Currently ranked #7 on IMDB's Top 250 with an 8.9/10 rating, the film also won a whopping 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Peter Jackson.
Plot-wise, the epic finale draws the journey of Frodo Baggins and his fellow hobbits to a conclusion. As Frodo and Sam (Sean Astin) reach Mordor, a gigantic battle ensues between good and evil over the fate of the One Ring.
3 The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) 93%
Written by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind imagines a medical procedure that allows patients to erase their memories of departed love ones in order to avoid heartbreak.
Jim Carrey stars as Joel Barish, a depressed loner who undergoes the medical procedure following his ugly breakup with Clementine (Kate Winslet). Once his memories of Clementine begin to fade in his mind, he regrets the decision as tries to cling on to her as best he can. Wood plays Patrick, a perverted technician who pines over his coworker Mary (Kirsten Dunst).
2 Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95%
While The Two Towers is the highest-rated Lord of the Rings entry, according to Rotten Tomatoes, it's the lowest-rated entry according to IMDB (8.7/10) and Metacritic (87/100). The middle leg of the trilogy won Academy Awards for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects.
The story continues the epic sojourn of Frodo and his fellow hobbits as they make their way to Mordor to do battle to destroy the One Ring. Along their journey, Frodo and Sam are confronted by Gollum (Andy Serkis).
1 The Panama Papers (2018) 100%
While Alex Winter is set to return in front of the camera as Bill S. Preston Esquire in Bill & Ted Face the Music later this year, his 2018 documentary film The Panama Papers has brought widespread acclaim to his talent behind the camera.
The title of the film refers to some 11 million documents that were leaked publicly by a collection of international journalists in 2016. Wood lends his voice to the documentary as John Doe, one of the instrumental journalists to help release the sensitive information.
August 06, 2020 at 01:30AM
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