And thatās a wrap! Hereās the whole set together! It was real fun and a really good learning experiment working on all of these. I hope you enjoyed!
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āAre these magic cloaks?ā asked Pippin, looking at them. with wonder.
āI do not know what you mean by that,ā answered the leader of the Elves. āThey are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.ā
- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien
This is how I think of Jacksonās movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalfās de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.
Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theodenās armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?
they took forced perspective and scaled sets to a new level by adding moving set pieces to create the illusion that the hobbits and dwarves were much smaller than everyone else even when the camera moved.
every scene you see in the 11+ hours of glory that is the LOTR masterpiece is most like ridiculously elaborate or expensiveāfrom model towers to the all-new motion capture technology used for gollum to the costumes and sets to the aerial on location shots of mother-fracking new zealand and the big impressive battle scenes and horse charges.
but then the story and the screenplay tooāthere is just SO much lore that is there
in the background lurking
if you want to look for it, yet it still remains simplified for the average viewer. Crazy impressive feat.
And the acting is heartfelt and real and makes you love the characters.
ALSO DONāT GET ME STARTED ON FREAKING HOWARD SHORE AND HIS 100+ HEARTSHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LIETMOTIFS AND BRILLIANT SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN THE FLIPPING 13 HOUR SOUNDTRACK. AND ENYA SINGING IN REAL ELVISH.
I loved the books long before the movies came out andā¦ yes, this.
I disagree with a few choices here and there but theyāre really, really good.
if your brother thinks he should be from the 1960s maybe you could draw him & only him from that era. worst possible compromise. even greater anachronisms.
If I had to pick one line that is at the heart of the movie, itās this one.
The movie (rightfully) comes right out and asks you to think about Grace, to fill the blank in the way people talk about her and see her as a full-fledged person who was suffering horribly. In contrast, it leans on the Creepy Little Girl aesthetic for young Martha and plays the emotional impact all this had on her close to the chest - until this line.
Prentice was like a father to her, the person she loved and most respected in the whole world. And he killed himself right in front of her, out of spite for his daughter. No matter what devotion Martha would heap on him, she would never be more worth living for than hurting Grace was worth dying for. Sheās what, 11 then?
Of course she lords this over Grace. This one way in which she can feel like sheās been chosen (when it reality sheās been very much abandoned instead). She is childishly hanging onto something that makes the loss and the horror feel like it can be Worth something. A way in which she is loved.
Her whole life, she clings to that: the good one, not the bad one. If sheās not tied to the image of the āHarlot Whoreā, does she even exist?
And maybe she doesnāt. Itās a running gag that she goes unnoticed. The Church is hers, she runs all of it, but she is unseen. The Good One doesnāt seek attention. The Good One doesnāt desire.
The Good One is a perpetual child even in her 70s, innocent to the point of parody. The Good One doesnāt know what a penis looks like, she is not a whore, she does not desire! (Rocket ships, what a funny scene! Surely not saying anything about her lifelong torment!)
The Good One cannot do anything but sneak a small smile when the man she loves displays his desire for her. But she canāt want back.
She has to deny herself, so she can believe her father would still love her. Else, what has it all been for?
