The Peter Jackson 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Lord of the Rings movies aren’t 𒉰perfect🦄, but they’re pretty darn good. I’m biased, because I grew up as they were released, the perfect age for action-packed gritty fantasy. I’ve since read the books, The SIlmarillion, Tolkien’s letters, and just about everything else I could get my Hobbity hands on.
And still I come back to the films. Part of this is for the specꦿial features, nearly 40 hours of documentary footage about how movies get made with the utmost care and precision, plus four or five different commentaries talking over the films themselves where different cast members and workers from all departments explain each scene in meticulous detail.
But also, they’re good movies. Not everything is like the book, but you’re translating a mammoth tome to a new medium, what did you expect would happen? I like some changes – Peter Jackson’s Aragorn and Boromir are more compelling c🔴haracters – but that comes at the expense of others – Faramir and Gimli are done very dirty. The story, by and large, follows the right events in the right sort of order. But most of all, Jackson makes you care about Tolkien’s characters because he cares about the details.
Now 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:m🐽ore Lord of the Rings films a💧re in the works. This is something nobody needs and nobody wants. We've recently had confirmation that new films are in the works with New Line, but nobody has said what they will entail. I think it’s too soon for a remake of the iconic trilogy, even for Hollywood, but the alternative could be even worse.
"If new Lord of the Rings films take the MCU as a prime example of how to rake in billions while providing little in terms of artistic value, we’ll get three Lord of the Rings TV series a year, all of which will explore new unTolkien s﷽ides of minor characters."
I’m talking about the MCU-ification of Tolkien’s work. We’ll get a film about Aragorn and Gandalf hunting for Gollum, a prequel about Smeagol’s life as a Hobbit exploring his complicated friendship with Deagol, and we’ll get so much shitty Legolas content because Orlando Bloom won’t say no to a payc🌠heque.
There are plenty of fantastic stories that could be told in Tolkien’s world. Beren and Luthien for a start. How about a gritty Thronesian take on the Children of Hurin, Tolkien’s most tragic and incestuous tale? I think a particularly artistic director could make something great of Ainulindalë, the song that created the world in Tolkien’s Legendarium. We could see Maia🔯r and Valar and Glaurung and Morgoth facing off against Fingolfin. I’m intrigued by the idea of an anime, The War of the Rohirrim, potentially putting a new spin on little known Tolkien stories. But no, we’ll get hastily written cash-ins using familiar characters, too much CGI, and a host of references so that even the most casual fan can take to social media and say that they got it.
There are ways to make Tolkien’s stories shine on the screen, but I don’t think the modern movie landscape has the capability to do so. Executives need profits now, so films and TV shows have to be spooled out too quickly, without being afforded due care. Think of how much worse The Hobbit trilogy is because of a lack of prep time. Peter Jackson & Co. spent as long preparing for the Lord of the Rings trilogy as they did filming it. Weta Workshop handmade every prop, cutting miles of rubber tubing into chainmail links that were assembled by hand. It also created the ‘bigatures’ of fortresses like Minas Tirith and Orthanc, so Jackson and the camera operators could physically maneouvre their equipment around them to capture shotꦺs rather than resorting to computer-generated imagery. Weta Digital only ever used its industry-pushing craft to improve shots, not create them from scratch.
If new Lord of the Rings films take the MCU as a prime example of how to rake in billions while providing little in terms of artistic value, we&rsq𝔉uo;ll get three Lord of the Rings TV series a year, all of which will explore new unTolkien sides of minor characters. Ever wonder what Rosie Cotton did while Samwise was journeying to Mordor? Wonder no longer.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Rings of Power, for all the criticisms about its cast and questions about the accuracy of its lore, at least had a high production quality. Th♋e costumes and sets were excellent, the actin☂g was great, and the scripts were decent. As the rights to Tolkien properties get handed out like candy on Halloween for more filmmakers to have a go at, the more rubbish we’re going to watch. There’s still a chance to stop the MCUification of The Lord of the Rings, but we’ve got to nip it in the bud now.
