Lost
Got lost one moonless night with a friend on the West Coast and tried in vain to use camera flash to find our way home through the forest. Made it back after the sun came up. "Lost" and "Lost II" are part of the roll of film randomly shot in the process. - VM
pic - Sign Language
著名的迷路事件。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0AzTcSfnUE
VM想带一位朋友去欣赏美丽的rainforest，虽然那天没有月亮，但是他告诉朋友他会认路，叫他不必担心。朋友问需不需要带电筒, 他还说不用，晚饭前就会回来。结果居然......迷路了 ^^
VM说他不是害怕，只是觉得懊恼。他认为自己的愚蠢自己承担倒无所谓，但连累到其他人，就觉得很过意不去。然后他就拿出相机开始不停拍照，希望能通过闪光灯的亮光，找到出路。后来胶卷用完了，他只好向这位朋友坦诚他们还是先找一块比较干的地躺下，等月亮出来，他再带他回去。
他其实不止一次提到这个迷路事件。他从来没说过这位朋友是谁，有时甚至说得好像当时只有他一个人。
PS：而且到底是要带人去 coast还是去看rainforest？
"I wanted to get to the coast, so I headed into the woods, but it was a bit of a hike and it suddenly got dark. I hadn't brought a flashlight with me, which was a bit stupid, because I thought I knew the trail really well. But then I got lost.
"There was no moon and it was overcast, so it was just completely pitch black, especially as the vegetation was really dense and thorny. But I did have a camera with me, which had a flash, and a couple of rolls of film.
"So I used the flash to try and find my way out. For a second you could see everything around, so I was using the flash to try and find the trail. I kept thinking, 'It must be around here somewhere', but I never did find it. And then I ran out of film."
Faced with the prospect of just wandering around in circles, Mortensen decided that his best plan was to stop and find somewhere to settle down for the night.
"At some point I was just getting really tired and ended up in a marshy area," he says. "I was falling down all the time, getting cut by thorns and I thought, 'This is stupid'. So, I found a piece of relatively high ground and lay down for a little while, until the moon came up.
"Luckily, when the moon arrived I managed to get my bearings and eventually I was able to figure out how to get back to where I started from. It was a huge relief, but when I showed up back on the set, I really alarmed everyone because it looked like I'd been through a grinder."
After this sobering ordeal, Mortensen finally learnt his lesson and stopped disappearing on his own. But he will always have a reminder of those hours lost in the rainforest, courtesy of the roll of film he shot while trying to find his way out.
"When I developed the film, which was black and white, there were some really interesting images," says Viggo. "The flash had lit up the ground, the foliage and these ferns which are typical of New Zealand. Some of them are almost like negatives because there was this fog and the flash was bouncing off them creating a really strange effect.
"It's quite unusual because there are these delicate ferns with their little tendrils and all the whiteness around them which makes them look like Japanese prints. I printed off four of them, which I've called Lost 1, 2, 3 and 4. You can see them on the internet." - Daily Mirror 2003
另一篇访谈
Lost 1,2,3 and 4, he jokingly calls them, were taken when he was geographically challenged in the bush on the West Coast one night. The photographs were snapped so that the flash might give him light to get his bearings.
"I eventually had to lie down under a tree for a while till the moon came over me and I could figure out where I was." - Dominion Post, 2003
多一篇
Mortensen also fell head-over-reel in love with New Zealand because he's a keen angler. He particularly enjoyed wandering off into the wilds, looking for remote rivers to do a spot of fly-fishing. "There are some streams where the fishing's so good, I wouldn't tell you about them," he grins. However, on one of these safaris in the South Island, disaster struck and Mortensen nearly perished.
"It was one of those rare times when I actually had the weekend off, so I headed off to the West Coast, into the rainforest, to a place I'd been to before," he recalls. "I was trying to get to the coast via the woods but it was a bit of a hike and it started to get dark. Stupidly, I hadn't brought a flashlight with me because I thought I knew the trail. But I soon got lost because there was no moon and I was in dense bush. It was pitch black but luckily I had a camera with me that had a flash, so I used the flash to try and find my way out.
"I was taking pictures, using the flash to try and find the trail, because it let me see everything around me for a second. But I never did find it and then I ran out of film! At some point, I ended up in a marshy area and I kept falling down and getting cut by thorns. I just thought, 'This is stupid,' so I found a piece of relatively high ground and lay down for a while until the moon came up.
"Fortunately, when the moon did finally come up, I managed to get my bearings and figured how to get back to where I started from," he recalls. "When I showed up, I really alarmed the makeup people because it looked like I'd been through a grinder!" - Pavement #62, Summer 2003-2004
我一直觉得“迷路”事件有趣的不是他和这位朋友一起迷路了，而是他为何不直接在节目或采访里说那位朋友是OB。
V for Viggo
With Mr. Mortensen, Bloom "lost" himself in the New Zealand wilderness. 14 hours later they both returned to the LotR set bruised and thirsty and with a photo that's reputed to be the best ever taken of Orlando. If Mortensen would only release it. - Skip magazine (German) April 2005
不清楚是谁说溜了嘴，但总觉得应该不是VM。能确定的是两人被困了14个小时，不仅口渴身上还带着伤。VM说他不停地拍照希望能找到出路，但他似乎忘了提他也趁机给这位朋友拍了不少照片。既然被说是OB最好看的照片，为何VM不公开呢？是觉得太珍贵，不想和大家分享吗？
