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The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: TV Discussion: The Rings of Power:
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Junesong
Nargothrond
Feb 25, 12:53pm
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But I will say that in The Hobbit behind the scenes Ian Mckellen almost quit because he had to spend many days on end (weeks?) filming in a big green tent posing as Bag End. In The Lord of the Rings Behind the Scenes they reveal that they built two identical Bag Ends at different scales to film in and then merged them.
Both films/both scenes seemed to require a heck of a lot of CGI in their own way. I'm not sure if trying to parse out specific amounts is helpful.
BUT - the above anecdote about Sir Ian trying to act in a green tent is kind of what people are getting at. The movies had a whole swath of new and exciting technology open to them and they took advantage of it at every turn. They tried their best to push the envelope and be innovative, just like they had done ten years earlier with LOTR.
In my humble opinion - the films (and the audience reception to the films) is really all the proof you need. Whatever they were doing, or whatever they were trying to do - it seemed to work out a whole lot better from 2001-2003. I think it was the restrictions and the limitations that made those movies great and timeless. I think the endless toy chest of money and technology only hurt The Hobbit films.
(Kind of reminds me of a band who's first album is made on the cheap and the crappy gear and cheap studio and urgency of anonymity and hunger is what gives the record the special sound that propels them to fame and stardom. And then, with all the money of a big studio and in fancy rooms with expensive gear and tech they make their big studio debut and it feels soulless and lukewarm and ordinary and you wonder how the same band could fumble so hard with everything they'd ever need on a silver platter. I suppose in those types of situations, the silver platter may itself be the problem.)
"So which story do you prefer?"
"The one with the tiger. That's the better story."
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(This post was edited by Junesong on Feb 25, 12:54pm)
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