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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."
Where I live, winter begins on 22nd of December. I figure it's the same in the UK.
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The ARE the extended versions.
It is a promotional gimmick. They are rereleasing the first two movies on celluloid a couple weeks before the premier of ROTK. The rerelease is the extended version from the DVD's.
However Peter Jackson has been upfront about this thing. He says it is purely promotional and they are only doing like 100 theaters with it.
So you are gonna have to be lucky if you want to see it.
This is about the movies which are, in fact, a trilogy. The books are irrelevant to this event.
The unofficial
RTFA.
It focuses on the science and technology that made the films possible - from computer-generated
special effects to animatronics.
Separate areas of the exhibition will explain major technological aspects of the films.
It's not dedicated to the work of fiction itself, but to the science and technology that allowed the creation of said work of fiction.
The purpose to which the technology is put doesn't render it invalid as technology. Frankly, given the predominance of film and computer entertainment in modern day, I think this is very relevant from a cultural perspective.
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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