Iconic Quote
“My precious...”
— Gollum, The Lord of the Rings trilogy
What Makes Them Great
Gollum is the Ring's living consequence — the proof of what it does to those who possess it. Serkis's dual performance as Smeagol and Gollum revolutionized motion-capture acting and gave the trilogy its most tragic figure. 'My precious' entered the permanent cultural vocabulary.
The Villain
Andy Serkis's Gollum is the most technically groundbreaking and emotionally complex villain in fantasy cinema — a hobbit-like creature corrupted by the One Ring over five hundred years into a wretched, split-personality wraith. Serkis's motion-capture performance was revolutionary, but it is the acting beneath the technology that endures: the Smeagol/Gollum dialogue scenes, where Serkis plays both personalities arguing with each other, are the trilogy's most psychologically compelling moments.
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