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I saw the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King last night. It was great. I won't give anything out, especially since I had little to give out, because--guess what?--I can't hear what the characters are saying. Many people often remark how surprised how much they take the little things for granted.
Of course, I read the books, so I understood the plot and the dialogues, but certainly, they had many new things not mentioned in the book. The visual effects to substitute for prose but I think they've maintained the same spirit as the story. I know how some people say books are better than the movies into which they're made, but I think Peter Jackson, the director, is excellent at showing the misery that all the people have suffered under Sauron. So the soul of the story is not destroyed in the translation.
Particularly, I loved the crying by Frodo, Gandalf, Samwise, and the rest. I was naturally uncomfortable at first, but I realized long ago that I had to accept each character on its own merits and visualize its life from its standpoint, not on or from ours. Doing so, it was moving to see Gandalf's tears at the final destruction of Sauron, as if the veil of terror, of fear of Sauron's return, of death and destruction, was suddenly removed, and people who had lived under such terror for so long could not be but overwhelmed.
Truly, I see how much people would interpret the movie differently in modern time. I also loved the music. It was a beautiful score and appropriate for an epic of this complexity.
I saw the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King last night. It was great. I won't give anything out, especially since I had little to give out, because--guess what?--I can't hear what the characters are saying. Many people often remark how surprised how much they take the little things for granted.
Of course, I read the books, so I understood the plot and the dialogues, but certainly, they had many new things not mentioned in the book. The visual effects to substitute for prose but I think they've maintained the same spirit as the story. I know how some people say books are better than the movies into which they're made, but I think Peter Jackson, the director, is excellent at showing the misery that all the people have suffered under Sauron. So the soul of the story is not destroyed in the translation.
Particularly, I loved the crying by Frodo, Gandalf, Samwise, and the rest. I was naturally uncomfortable at first, but I realized long ago that I had to accept each character on its own merits and visualize its life from its standpoint, not on or from ours. Doing so, it was moving to see Gandalf's tears at the final destruction of Sauron, as if the veil of terror, of fear of Sauron's return, of death and destruction, was suddenly removed, and people who had lived under such terror for so long could not be but overwhelmed.
Truly, I see how much people would interpret the movie differently in modern time. I also loved the music. It was a beautiful score and appropriate for an epic of this complexity.
