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The L0tR Motion Picture Trilogy Exhibition
cremegg writes " BBC News has a story on the upcoming exhibition at the London Science Museum where fans of the trilogy will be able to explore the high-tech toys used to create the special effects in this epic project."
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Somehow LOTR has an amazing feel when your reading the book...but not when your seeing the movie as such. Its been that way with almost *all* movies made from books...the book was better than the movie.
:) sadly I guess am too far off to be visiting the exhibition.
Nevertheless need to give credit to the guys for making a movie out of such a huge book
Is this the k3wl version of LotR?
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We all know who the real lord of the rings is, Cowboy Neil! I mean that literally rather than metaphorically which is what is so grim about it
That reminds me. My current plan for getting out of spending the holidays with the family is to find a place far away from them to catch a LOtR 3 Movie Marathon in a theatre. My family is on the East Coast U.S., so I'm looking for the midwest or west coast, but do people know of any theatres that plan to do this?
i took a look at the link, skimmed through the little article and i must admit, the the suits of armor in the picture i saw looked VERY high tech... i'm sure any knight these days would love to replace his old rusty 20th century suit of armor with one of the high tech one's shown in the picture...
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...any particular reason that LOTR is spelt with a zero?
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I'm confused. I don't recall any high-tech toys being used in the creation of the trilogy (unless paper, ink, the printing press, and Tolkien's imagination are considered "high-tech").
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It is a common misconception that LotR is a trilogy. It is not. It is a single novel, composed of six books, commonly published in three volumes. From this, the movies are really more like the first, second and third discs in a really really long movie.
(Sorry. Just one of my pet peeves.)
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And here was me thinking this country was boring.
Who finds it a little strange that a science and history museum is having an exhibition dedicated to a work of fiction ?
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This is old, we had the exhibition here in NZ for a year or so.
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It is a good one however - I highly recomend everyone who can see it to go and see it
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I share your opinion that pretty much all movies are not quite as good as the book. (one of the few exceptions is that I liked the movie version of Minority Report better than the short story "Minority Report".) The LOTR movies however come very close to the fullfilling the the reality of the books. Considering the amount of decisons required to reduce a 1000 page work into a mere 12 hours(I think), they were remarkably true to their sorce.
Only IMHO of course, feel free to flame me and mod me down.
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The exhibition launched prior to the film and was first displayed in Wellington, NZ where it received enormous amounts of international press.
The content and existence of the exhibition are OLD news. Hell, I saw it a year ago.
The real news here I suppose is that now its showing in London.
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For years after the original "Star Wars" trilogy, the media fawned over Lucas's talent for special effects. Oooh, aaah, stop-motion model animation and claymation and hand-drawn elements. I remember the documentaries on the making of "Return of the Jedi"--all about models of Jabba's barge and such.
So when "The Phantom Menace" arrives, we get our reward for years of patting George on the head and saying "Good BOY!": brilliant special effects that scream THIS IS A SPECIAL EFFECT, and a script apparently adapted from a group of six-year-old boys playing Jedi Knights in their back yard.
Didn't we learn anything from "The Wizard of Oz"? What you find behind the curtain is always a disappointment.
If you are visiting London's Science Museum don't forget to visit the Charles Babbage exhibit. You'll never look at a computer in quite the same way again.
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..Peter Jackson took rights to the films.
!!!!SPOILERS BELOW!!!!
In Return of the King, after Faramir repents trying to steal the ring from Frodo, he is slain defending Merry and Pippin when an orc hurls a Palantir at his head.
Pippin picks this up, and finds that it is a secret link to Sauron's trusty old Win2k Server in the basement of the Dark Tower, Barad-Dur.
Later, as Gondor is brought to its knees by Mordor's military might, all hope seems lost of the Ring-bearer finding his way to Orodruin without being noticed - until Pippin, revealing himself through the Palantir, begins a systematic hacking of Barad-Dur's internal network that diverts Sauron's attention.
Ebert and Roeper give the movie "Two thumbs up!", stating, "A glorious blend of epic fantasy and a science-fiction hackfest. If only we could all be as l33t as p1pp1n!"
It was on show in Wellington New Zealand for a few months. I went a couple times. It is a fantastic exhibition, with a huge amunt of the props, costumes and models, as well as a lot of detail on how various CGI things were done. Everything from the shards of Narsil, to orginal design sketches by Alan Lee.
I highly recommend attending if it you get the chance.
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This show is pretty good. It consists mostly of videos describing how various special effects were made, and various props on display.
However, the only "high tech toy" that you can explore of any memorability was the altered perspective wagon chair that lets you see yourself twice the size of the friend sitting next to you.
It is 'forced perspective' not 'false perspective' as it is stated in the article. It is amazing how many people say this wrong, but I must admit that it makes sense both ways...
It is there now... I know someone who went there last week
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It's a great exhibition. I saw it when it came out in Wellington, NZ.
Give yourself at *least* 2 hours to really appreciate the detail in all the costumes, etc. It's amazing the work Weta has put into it.
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We had a St4r Tr3k exhibition here not too long ago.
...comes the new 'L0tR'. It's Zero Cool!
I suppose this will get modded down to Troll status.....but LoTR has surpassed Star Wars, anime/hentai, "Wizard" magazine, and even Star Trek as quite possibly the geekiest thing ever. Remember the thread here on /. about the people who'd invented an Elvish language and all the hoots they got?
I'm sick of hearing about it. This from a man who has watched & followed SW religiously since 1977; was a devoted fan of ST until B5 came along, and who can't wait for the next Alan Moore comic book.
Jeez, guys. Remember the girls and how they perceive you and your peer group. Gollum's ass-crack is only computer generated. There are plenty of real ass-cracks on real females in the real world.
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It now has loops, e.g. ;
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Which I quite like, it's different from the usual way of doing things but makes about as much sense.
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The Fellowship of the Ring contains Books 1 and 2 in chronological order (the Fellowship leaves Rivendell at the end of Book 1 - the 2-DVD extended edition of the film had this event at the end of DVD 1, which was a nice touch).
The Two Towers contains Books 3 and 4, which happen at the same time (Book 3 follows most of the Fellowship into Rohan, Book 4 follows Frodo and Sam to the edge of Mordor); the Two Towers film has pretty much all of Book 3 but doesn't quite reach the end of Book 4.
Return of the King contains Books 5 and 6, which overlap (Book 5 follows on from Book 3, most of Book 6 takes place at the same time and follows on from Book 4, and the end of Book 6 happens after Book 5). The Return of the King film looks likely to have the end of Book 4, all of Book 5, and most of Book 6, but miss out the end of Book 6 (the hobbits' return to the Shire).
From my copy of The Two Towers, since it was nearest (paperback, 2nd edition, 7th impression, 1978.)
Title page:
From page 9, the contents page (page numbers omitted, since they wouldn't line up properly):
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