They are the archetypes all other fantasy archetypes are based on. Of course you know them.
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It's worth noting that the Lord of the Rings in book form is very long because it goes into so much depth about each character's history. One of the things that the author intentionally did was world building. If you wanted to get the whole plot line in, you could do so in a third the length.
So then when it was adapted to movie format, you had three things going for it. First, a lot of people read the books and loved them, second, the cast and crew had a lot to work with, and third, there was ample budget.
Idk about "ample budget". I was watching the director's commentary on the Two Towers and he mentions one week where the studio was trying to decide whether to green light money for the film and Peter Jackson knew that he had nothing to say that would convince them, in fact he thought it would dissuade them because they wouldn't see the benefit on the way he was spending the money. So he went out to a remote location to do the filming for several days intentionally to avoid their phone calls lol. I think that was when they were filming the battle for Helm's Deep. Apparently it worked because after he had the footage from that week to show them, they decided it was good enough to justify the price.
I think the biggest reason is that the actors were allowed to act together. Modern movies use so many digital effects that actors aren't even on set together sometimes. It's hard to have the same emotions looking at a green screen and a guy in a morph suit.
Just for the first one, right? I remember Ian Mckellen had a breakdown on set because he was sitting in front of the table at Bag End with nothing around him but green screen and was struggling without any other actors.
That's true, but it was a single scene, not the majority of the movie. Almost every scene with hobbits involved forced perspective.
IIRC in The Hobbit films they couldn't use forced perspective because they were shooting native 3D.
Thank god that trend is over.
IIRC that was on the set of one of the Hobbit movies.
The Lord of the Rings was shot mostly using practical effects.
The first three movies were mostly all filmed at the same time.
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