LINA LEANDERSSON Zlín Film Festival 2014

[johnlord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKvfQs6zxw

[PeteMork]

What a find! Thanks, johnlord.

[a_contemplative_life]

Fascinating to hear Lina pronounce her own name. It sounds so different from how an American would pronounce it.

[Tom]

Fascinating to hear Lina pronounce her own name. It sounds so different from how an American would pronounce it.

Yeah, I noticed it, too. Her last name sounded more like "lan-chan" rather than "lee-ander-son". Anyway, it was a fun interview. Both of them were in that 15 short films for SVT.

[intrige]

Yeh, I say her name like you guys hear'em. Sweden is right next door to norway so I kinda know what it is supposed to sound like. It is hallerious though when any non-scandinavians try to say her name. Or even better, try to say john ajvide lindqvist's name.

Lina is soo pretty.

[metoo]

Fascinating to hear Lina pronounce her own name. It sounds so different from how an American would pronounce it.

Yeah, I noticed it, too. Her last name sounded more like "lan-chan" rather than "lee-ander-son". Anyway, it was a fun interview. Both of them were in that 15 short films for SVT.

Her surname is a patronym - Leanders-son. The male name Leander is pronounced with the stress on the a, while the preceding e almost disappears. The combined sound of the unstressed e and the stressed a is similar to what is heard in English "young", without the "ng" part. Furthermore, in most of Sweden the combination "rs" is pronounced "sh", like in English "she". Thus, Leandersson would be pronounced something like Lyan-duh-shon.

[Wolfchild]

Lina is soo pretty.

For all those of you pining for a sequel: Eli is gone. Lina is so familiar, since we have followed her growing up, but I don't see Eli in her at all. There may be some brief little flashes here and there that remind me of Eli, but that may be more of my imagination than anything real. She has none of the same mannerisms, and very few of the same facial expressions. Maybe this just a measure of 12 year old Lina's talent: That she created Eli as a character that she wore onscreen. Either way, if I walked out of a cinema having just seen LTROI for the first time ran into Lina today, I doubt that I would realize that she had played Eli.

[cmfireflies]

For all those of you pining for a sequel: Eli is gone.

Eli isn't gone, she's happily living with Oskar, tucked in celluloid. I don't pine for a sequel and I really even avoid fanfiction these days because I really can't stand the idea of Oskar or Eli in some kind of conflict. Their story is done, it's for them to enjoy their "happily ever after." I'm satisfied with brief cameo appearances, for JAL to drop in on the every few years or so.

They're with each other, happy, free. I can't ask for a better ending. All credit to Lina for being Eli, at least for a little while.

[gymmy64]

Lina is soo pretty.

For all those of you pining for a sequel: Eli is gone. Lina is so familiar, since we have followed her growing up, but I don't see Eli in her at all. There may be some brief little flashes here and there that remind me of Eli, but that may be more of my imagination than anything real. She has none of the same mannerisms, and very few of the same facial expressions. Maybe this just a measure of 12 year old Lina's talent: That she created Eli as a character that she wore onscreen. Either way, if I walked out of a cinema having just seen LTROI for the first time ran into Lina today, I doubt that I would realize that she had played Eli.

I agree. I watched Broken Hill Blues last year and saw very little of Eli in Lina's performance. What is still intact, though, is her ability to communicate through body language and facial expression. This ability served her well in this case; although Lina had a decent amount of screen time, the IMDB is accurate when it says she only has around 9 lines. She was still a facinating presence onscreen, and I'd like to think I would have taken note of her even if I'd never seen LTROI.