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Chen G.
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May 16, 9:30am
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In a good-natured way, he was defensive about TH trilogy. He acknowledged the difficulties and the disappointment some audiences felt but also resiled from none of the work itself and expressed his love of those films.
That's good to hear. The internet had kind of edited the Michael Pellerin documentaries and twisted them out of context to paint those productions as some racing-against-the-clock marathon of misery, and anyone who has actually watched those unabridged documentaries can tell that - regardless of what one thinks of the films - that's just absolutely not the case.
More to the point, I was very pleased indeed that in recent interviews with Andy Serkis, he had reaffirmed that Gollum would be in the lineage of BOTH trilogies. In other film series filmmakers often chose to focus on those entries about whom the audience was largely in consensus: for a while, latter-day Star Wars treated at least the first two prequels as something that didn't happen; I believe one of the latter-day Terminator films overrode all the preceding entries since Cameron; even a great film like The Last Crusade treats Temple of Doom as just...this "thing" that happened.
I think that's a perfectly fine thing to do AS A FAN - you make your own "canon" out of what's there - but as a filmmaker stepping into a film series, I think it's only right that one should accept the series in its totality. Andy does appeal to traditionalists here and there - Gollum is reviving the Miniature unit, for example - but thankfully neither he nor Peter are turning their backs on any of the preceding entries. I guess neither made any particular effort to mention Rohirrim, but that's to be expected because that film is so in-a-bubble by itself in terms of plot, characters and medium. Of course, both Peter and Andy are strongly associated with BOTH trilogies (and Rohirrim!) so I guess it was to be expected, but it's still nice ot hear.
(This post was edited by Chen G. on May 16, 9:33am)
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