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Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Lord of The Rings:
It's been kind of going around:
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Chen G.
Mithlond
Feb 15, 5:50pm
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There also a two-line "blurb" from Deadline that's mostly consonant with this. So I don't really doubt its veracity, even if one of my friends doing spy-work on Gollum says it sounds AI-ish.
Ultimately, there are a few questions which this synopsis doesn't quite answer:
Is the film more Gollum-centric or more Aragorn centric? The first paragraph orients us towards Gollum, but the seconds puts a major emphasis on Aragorn. I bet the filmmakers themselves couldn't easily answer this question, and probably wouldn't be able to until they do a rough cut of the film. It might end up being along the lines of Thorin and Bilbo.
Is the film strictly set between the Farewell Party and Moria, or does it also cover the period between the trilogies? Again, the first paragraph seems to imply the latter, while the third the former. Obviously Peter's scripts tend to include lots of flashbacks, but just in terms of where the emphasis lay, we don't know.
What other storylines may be brought to bear upon this film? Philippa mentioned several times that they keep on finding how this story is intertwined into other things and how, actually, "there's a lot there." So you wonder what else might be woven through this film: I mean, the attack of Mirkwood is concurrent with the one on Osgiliath. Gollum ends-up in Moria after it's been cleared of Balin's folk: Do you show that? This synopsis doesn't tell.
What NEW is this film promising to add to the series? Philippa seems confident that this film promises much that's new, in terms of place we go to (where?), dramatic situations and new characters. But we have almost no way of guessing at any of that. The synopsis does promise new characters but with the possible exception of other rangers, we have no way of knowing who those might be.
This second question, in particular, has major ramifications, including for the part of Aragorn: is the "Strider" they're looking for - with an age quota a full decade younger than Mortensen was shooting Lord of the Rings - for flashbacks of some sort? Is the film strictly a "sidequel" or an "interquel" like the original conception of the bridge film?
Related to this last point, how will the film play to an audience? What knowledge does it pressuposes of Fellowship of the Ring? What knowledge does it pressuposes of The Two Towers? An Unexpected Journey? Will we ever be able to sit back and watch from The War of the Rohirrim, through The Hobbit, this film and up through The Lord of the Rings as a cohesive narrative and aesthetic experience?
Questions, questions that need answering!
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