The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was produced by director Peter Jackson, and the total length of the three films was about 12 hours. It has a large enough world background to support, and the creators of World of Warcraft, who are praised by game fans, are also absolute Lord of the Rings fans.
Beginning with The Lord of the Rings, fantasy epic movies have gradually become a wave around the world, and after that, a number of series of films have swept the global box office, such as Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and so on.
Around the turn of the millennium, countless great films erupted, including the Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2001 to 2003.
Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings wrote almost all western fantasy worldview settings, and most importantly created a middle-earth world that was above reality and had its own rules of history, language, species, and development.
This fictional "second world" is the core of fantasy, and it is based on such originals that a great fantasy epic movie such as "The Lord of the Rings" was born.
The story of the movie begins with a ring, in the middle-earth world where elves, dwarves, half-orcs and humans coexist, the dark demon Sauron casts a supreme ring, which has the supreme power to enslave the world and corrupt people's hearts.
Over thousands of years, the Rings have taken several turns in the battle between the Human Alliance and the Half-Orc Army, and finally landed in the hands of the innocent Hobbit Frodo.
Frodo, who was able to resist the temptation of the Ring, was led by the wizard Gandalf, and embarked on a journey to destroy the Ring together with the Ring Alliance of humans Aragon, the elven prince Legolas, and others.
In addition to having strong literary roots, the greatness of the film "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is that it uses the power of digital film technology in the 21st century to realize a screen dream of global Lord of the Rings fans.
The world of Middle-earth, which only exists in fantasy, has been restored to the fullest, and its scenes and details are even more real than the original, with war scenes that swing back to the intestines, dreamy and holy elves, magic soldiers like black clouds pressing the city, tree people on the shore, and the image of gollum that countless fans shadowed in the same year.
These difficult image expressions are perfectly represented by digital technology. In the past, it was unimaginable that digital technology had not developed to this point.
Mojing fans may not forget it until now, when Pippin lights the flame of Amundin in Milasty, accompanied by a stirring soundtrack, the world of Middle-earth in the shot is unobstructed.
When the White City, the capital of Gondor, was suppressed by the Demon King, the King of Rohan supported Gondor with his Cavalry, and the speech before the battle and the scene of fighting for the oath became one of the most burning pictures in the history of the film.
The contribution of the music of "The Lord of the Rings" to this film cannot be ignored, in addition to the rhythm and emotion of the picture, Howard Xiao also used the reference to a large number of poetry and cultural backgrounds in Tolkien's original book to tailor the theme music for different picture scenes.
Like the briskness and melodiousness of the Shire, the strange lowness of Mordor, the mysterious ethereality of the elven world, and the grandeur and tragedy of the war scenes.
The chanting of the life soundtrack and the epic melody not only directly participate in the narrative of the film, but more importantly, convey the cultural, historical and ideological spiritual temperament inherent in the original work. The maturity of film technology allows fantasy literature to realistically reproduce the imagination and the huge overhead world.
Fantasy movies like "The Lord of the Rings" can still be sought after by fans, in addition to audiovisual enjoyment, but also because it is a yearning for the unknown, a sense of freedom that extends infinitely.
Let's escape from this mediocre reality and join us in this earth-shattering, majestic adventure.
Along the way, we and the protagonist have harvested family, friendship, love, witnessed justice, bravery and greatness, and the extraordinary experience given to us by these films may be the reason for the longevity of this film.
Speaking of which, I can't help but think of some of our domestic fantasy movies. In fact, since "The Lord of the Rings", china has only emerged to create fantasy films based on its own cultural soil, which we call "the costume fantasy films of the East".
More common is the "Oriental costume fantasy film", from 2000 onwards, we see "Wuji", "Painted Skin", "Journey to the West", to now have a dragon hunting recipe, to this year's "Dragon Hunting Recipe", compared with "The Lord of the Rings" 20 years ago movies, it still has a huge gap.
Is this really a problem of the film industry and technology? In fact, the development of Chinese films to today, and Hollywood in the film industry and technology gap has gradually narrowed.
We often hear words like "comparable to Hollywood" and "opening a certain first year", but behind these noisy appearances, Chinese fantasy films still reveal the problems of empty ideas and lack of value under high investment and large production.
Compared with "The Lord of the Rings", the kind of story and value that is structured under the popularization of Western culture that transcends race, gender, and age, and conforms to the common emotions of human beings, we are still entangled in the spectacle of strange and chaotic gods and some love stories to consume Chinese folk myths. Technically comparable to Hollywood, I am afraid it will not help.
In addition to the imaginative world of Middle-earth and the thrilling adventures of the protagonist, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy actually conveys many values that are very simple but also very easy to be ignored by the audience.
In the lineup that escorted the Lord of the Rings to Doomsday Mountain, there were elves of noble blood and extraordinary abilities, descendants of terran emperors, doers and dwarves, and wizards with great powers. But none of them became ordinators, but instead the completely inconspicuous hobbits of Middle-earth, inadvertently keeping the rings for three consecutive generations.
The hobbits are very ordinary, relocated and low-key conservative, but they are also kind and simple, indifferent to fame and fortune, and dismissive of worldly temptations.
It is for this reason that only the hobbits can resist the temptation of the Lord of the Rings, not because of the divine power of the unfounded, but because of the habits cultivated by virtue passed down from generation to generation. In fact, it is not difficult to find that in this kind of fantasy story, the people who can finally grasp the power are often the simplest people.
"Before a miracle appears, most people will think that those who try to create a miracle are fools, but when the miracle is born, a large number of people will emerge to imitate, follow, and copy. And the reason why a miracle can be born, there are many factors that cannot be copied, do not study the fundamentals, only imitate the appearance, and finally present a heart that is eager for success and quick profit. ”
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