In fact, Figwit is the name that has been given to an elvish extra that appears only in a single scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and is on screen for about three seconds. You can spot him in the Council of Elrond sequence — a pouty but extremely good-looking dark haired elf that sits as part of the group. As Lord of the Rings producer Barrie M. Osborne notes in the film, this is the first time that a fan movement has popped up centred around a single extra.
Figwit fandom has spread enormously since then — as the documentary shows, Google now lists some 10, references to Figwit and Yahoo lists more fan sites for Figwit than a major Lord of the Rings character like Gandalf.
However, Figwit fandom appears to be taking the girlish adulation that surrounds Orlando Bloom and planting its tongue ever so slightly in its cheek. A flip through figwitlives. There are a host of other Figwit fansites, including the now defunct Figwit is Evil , which depicts Figwit alongside Osama bin Laden and peeping out of frames of the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination. I'm famous for doing nothing," he said. Clearly McKenzie is in the minority here.
As if the fevered adulation among the film's fans were not enough, the musician was the subject of a documentary last August when a film crew followed his band Flight of the Conchords to the Edinburgh Festival. Sources on the film said despite efforts to track him down in time for extra filming on the second instalment, McKenzie or his alter ego could not be found.
Fans might like to know, however, that the expanded DVD of the original contains a spanking new two seconds of Figwit The Two Towers will be released here on Wednesday Dececember Frodo Is Great Who Is That?!!
Studio Midnight Film Productions Limited. New Zealand. Genre documentary. It pays to be attractive. Long live Figwit. Also really cool and fun to see baby Taika Waititi, back when he was Taika Cohen! Who is that? Just when you think you have a basic grasp of Bret McKenzie lore
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