The last thing the world needs now is another post about the Lord of the Rings movies (what is it that the world needs now, exactly?). However, if you’ll kindly bear with me, I do have a quick comment to get out of the way.
About half-way through the The Return of the King, the third and final movie in the series, I strange feeling came over me. While watching Frodo and Sam trek through Mordor, and Merry and Pippin fight hopeless battles, I could myself thinking: “It seems so long ago that Frodo and Sam where back at the Shire…”
I had a strangly real sense of time and history – which is what made the Tolkien books so great. I think the one-movie-a-year for three years delivery helped contribute to the epic sense that a great time had past, but still – I felt I was looking back on the long lives of fictional characters.
That is as good a compliment as I could ever pay to a director. Well done.
“(what is it that the world needs now, exactly?)”
Its love, sweet love! Thats the only thing, that theres just too little of!
(sorry, I really couldn’t help myself – I’ve been doing this to other peoples blogs all week)
Thanks Jon – I tee’d you up for it – I was hoping someone would take the bait.
Where as The Matrix introduced ‘Bullet Time’, The Lord of the Rings introduced ‘Hobit Time’.
I had the same feeling. I think that’s one of the advantages of longer-format movies – they can really give you a sense of time, especially if you have THREE 3.5 hr movies tied together…
..excellent movie, of course. I’ve never even come close to crying in a movie before, but I must admit, I almost squeezed out a few when they bowed to the hobbits at the end.