Elanor Gardner writes: Entertainment Weekly details some of the added scenes for the EE ROTK DVD this week. They say that there will be 49 minutes of extra footage and 300 new F/X shots. (highlight below for spoilers!) “New scenes include the Nazgul king facing down Gandalf in battle, the Mouth of Sauron taunting the Fellowship at the gates of Mordor, and Aragorn tending to Eowyn in the Houses of Healing. The most anticipated addition is Gandalf’s final confrontation with Saruman, a controversial last-minute cut from the film.” [More]
Category: Original TORn
Filmmaker Peter Jackson — assiduously disheveled, frequently barefoot and barely 5-and-a-half feet tall — is a giant in Hollywood. But in his native New Zealand he is something even bigger: its newest national hero. That much is clear from the moment you land at the airport in Wellington, where a red carpet is lined with giant golden replicas of the 11 Oscars awarded to Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and a massive model of the film’s eerie Golum character peers over the roof of the main terminal. [More]
Sideshow/Weta Collectibles is getting a jump on their exclusive offerings at this year’s Comic Con 2004. If you are lucky enough to be attending this year’s event, you might want to jump over to SideshowWeta.com and get your pre-order in for the brand new 1/4 Scale Smeagol Bust. This bust is only going to be available for pick-up at the Comic-Con. Folks who won’t be able to make it, can sign up for a wait list lottery to take place after the convention. (If you are into Hellboy and Buffy, check out the other 3 exclusives Sideshow is offering!) [More]
INVENTORY ALERTS!
Sideshow was also kind enough to inform us of about 11 items that are about to sell out from the Lord of the Rings collection. [More]
With the recent release of the Return of the King DVD, many of us have revisited the movie and probably the first two as well. Throughout the trilogy, we pickup certain repeated phrases, visual images, actions or scenes that occur in two or even all three of the films. [More]
Repeated Elements in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings
With the recent release of the Return of the King DVD, many of us have revisited the movie and probably the first two as well. Throughout the trilogy, we pickup certain repeated phrases, visual images, actions or scenes that occur in two or even all three of the films.
It’s possible Peter Jackson uses these to emphasise certain themes through his version of Tolkien’s trilogy. For example, PJ has said one theme of the LOTR books is death, and we see repeated scenes that make us all think a character has died, only to see them return. ‘Hope’ is a word that is repeated in various spoken phrases, and possibly, represented visually as well.
How many of these repeated elements can you spot, and what might they mean? Is there a connection between these repeated elements and story themes? And, do they help to make make the separate LOTR films more cohesive as one continuous movie or was PJ getting carried away with his vision?
Come join us this week in the Hall of Fire as we discuss repeated elements and themes in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings.
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Past topics update:
If you haven’t visited the Hall of Fire page for a while, you might be surprised to see that we recently updated the logs for the last six months. Wander over and check out what everyone had to say for topics such as ‘Little Engimas of LoTR’, ‘Villains in RoTK’ or our fiery ‘Denethor’ chat of late last year.
http://www.theonering.net/barlimans/hall.html
Remember, if you have a topic you’d love to see in Hall of Fire, drop us a line! Or maybe you’d like to see one of the topics we’ve done in the past revisited.
Either way, we’d love to hear from you, and though we might not always reply, all the suggestions we receive go into the topic melting pot. E-mail us at halloffire@theonering.net today!
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My personal punching bag, Sala Baker, will be at Trek Expo in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 18-20. He will be there all three days of the convention. This con has a ton of interesting guests like Brent Spiner, Ron Perlman, Mercedes McNab, Penny Johnson Jerald, Bai Ling, John Glover and more! [More]