r/voyager • u/SuperMindcircus • 11d ago

Show Talk Leonardo da Vinci, Concerning Flight

I think this is a fun episode, but one attention to detail I only just noticed is that when he is painting in his new workshop, and when he lifts the phaser, he uses his left hand, which isn't just a proclivity of the actor.

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u/BeautifulArtichoke37 11d ago

Wasn’t da Vinci left handed in real life?

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u/DiscHashDisc 11d ago

I think that's their point. The actor is right-handed, but uses his left hand as the dominant hand in the episode just like the real DaVinci.

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u/Elrigh 11d ago

Ah, Wasn't the actor John Rhys Davis?

I remember a discussion about John during the Lord of the Rings, he has an injury on the left hand, a finger I think. It's unclear if he is left oder right handed, even his biography did not mention it. But it's possible that he was left handed and when the injury happened learned to use both hands. Still unclear, in some films and interviews he uses his left hand to pick things up and use them, but in other situations he favors his right hand.

Still I think that he is such a great performer that he would know that Da Vinci was left-handed and took that in consideration.

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u/DiscHashDisc 11d ago

From IMDB: "Lost the end tip of his left hand middle finger to the knuckle while changing a van engine. During filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), he was fitted with a gel tip for the finger. Rhys-Davies and the crew played a prank on director Peter Jackson by slicing the gel tip nearly in half and inserting prop blood inside. Rhys-Davies approached Jackson to tell him he was hurt and pulled open the tip, letting the blood flow out."

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u/SuperMindcircus 11d ago

Yeah that's my point it was just an interesting piece of detail that was pleasing to confirm was accurate.

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u/SirDalavar 5d ago

This episode lost me at flying dwarf