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Darkstone
Immortal
Jun 28 2013, 8:26pm
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“That’s the point of coloring. It’s not just about correction, or balance, or a mechanical smoothing of any production issues that have found their way into post. It’s about leading an audience through an emotional experience. Color matters, take some time to learn how to use it to tell your story.”
- Eric Escobar, Why Every Filmmaker is Also a Colorist
1. Why use this particular viewpoint at these moments (as if we are standing behind the Hobbits)?
These types of looking over the shoulder shots are intended to build an intimacy, a connection between the characters and the audience.
2. What could the increasing distances and shift in eye level mean?
The Passing of the Elves shot puts us right there shoulder to shoulder with Sam and Frodo. We’re with them in discovering the wonders and mysteries of the landscape of Middle-earth.
In the aftermath of the Storming of Isengard we, like Merry and Pippin themselves, are a bit separated. Like men at the end of a battle, we are physically together, yet alone in our thoughts as we try to process what we saw, and for M&P, try to process what they did.
In the Grey Havens we’re even more apart, and a bit elevated. A lot of things have happened since the Passing of the Elves. Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam have changed, M&P have changed, Gandalf has changed. (And perhaps we, the audience have changed?) We’re all still friends but things will never be what they used to be. It’s kind of like how Sam holds himself a bit separate from Frodo during the Hobbit Tickle Party.
3. How do the three scenes compare in terms of mood and meaning?
The Passing of the Elves is in “day for night” blue. The scene is dark, mysterious, and slightly dangerous. As are Elves.
Flotsam and Jetsam is in apocalyptic washed out grey. That visual should lead the audience to the washed out feeling of after battle emotion.
The Grey Havens are in rich golden tones, with well defined light, looking into the sunset. The audience can feel the satisfaction of a saved Shire, then, with the sunset at our backs and the sun out of our eyes, Frodo delivers his stunning news. (It seems significant that the three hobbits out in front are the three surviving Ringbearers, and that all three will end up sailing to Valinor sooner or later.)
4. What might the scenes mean in relation to the Hobbits' journeys into the larger world and what they learn, and how they change along the way?
They are windows into how the hobbits bonded, then felt torn in two, then found wholeness, whether back in the Shire, or in Valinor.
The Hobbits had some shared experiences and some individual - are these scenes shedding any light on who was affected more by what, and how?
Yes.
5. What is the meaning of having Gandalf as part of the group of Hobbits in the ROTK scene?
Like us, he is now just an observer of his, or rather, our, "dear hobbits".
6. And what could Merry and Pippin have possibly been thinking, wading barefoot into waist-deep water in the aftermath of a battle ?
Same thing I was thinking every time the street flooded: Fun! And treasure! Only of course they have very thick soles. Not that they helped Sean Astin any wading in the Anduin at Amon Hen.
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Brothers, sisters,
I was Elf once.
We danced together
Under the Two Trees.
We sang as the soft gold of Laurelin
And the bright silver of Telperion,
Brought forth the dawn of the world.
Then I was taken.
Brothers, sisters,
In my torment I kept faith,
And I waited.
But you never came.
And when I returned you drew sword,
And when I called your names you drew bow.
Was my Eldar beauty all,
And my soul nothing?
So be it.
I will return your hatred.
And I am hungry.
(This post was edited by Darkstone on Jun 28 2013, 8:30pm)
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