The L0tR Motion Picture Trilogy Exhibition

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The L0tR Motion Picture Trilogy Exhibition

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 20, 2003 @09:05AM from the toys-to-drool-over-but-not-on dept.

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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L0tR? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-20 09:05 · Score: 5, Interesting

Since when did Slashdot get l33t headlines?
1. Re:L0tR? by presroi · 2003-09-20 09:10 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  Too bad I don't have any moderation points left. This Post is not "Offtopic" as long as my eyes don't fool me. This O is right now an 0 in the headline.
  
  I hope it will be corrected OR
  someone might explain the joke to me why it has to be a number 0 instead of O.
2. Re:L0tR? by Skreech · 2003-09-20 09:40 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  the letter "o" and zero are right next to each other on the keyboard... I make that mistake on accident myself sometimes. In most fonts, its hard to catch. Dont worry, /. isnt getting leet on anyone.
3. Re:L0tR? by Diamon · 2003-09-20 23:38 · Score: 2, Funny
  
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December==Autumn? by WTFmonkey · 2003-09-20 09:09 · Score: 3, Interesting

The family exhibition, which will open before the eagerly awaited final instalment of the film trilogy this Autumn, will allow visitors to explore for themselves the fantastic world created for The Lord of the Rings films.
What does "autumn" mean in the UK? I thought the movie comes out in December?
1. Re:December==Autumn? by bj8rn · 2003-09-20 09:17 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Where I live, winter begins on 22nd of December. I figure it's the same in the UK.
  
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Still can't beat the books by fox2mike · 2003-09-20 09:09 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

Nevertheless need to give credit to the guys for making a movie out of such a huge book :) sadly I guess am too far off to be visiting the exhibition.
1. Re:Still can't beat the books by gl4ss · 2003-09-20 09:33 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  well, i bet this fish has been beaten death quite a number of times..
  
  but they're different mediums.
  
  or you could argue that opera version of some theatretical play is better than the plain theatre version, but there would be very little point in it. as a game the quite new title pirates of the caribbean sucks but the movie on the other hand is ok, and they have just about much in common as a book and a movie would have with the same title and resemblance in characters.
  
  the movies are ok movies, and that is what matters. it doesn't matter if you're imagination is better or not in your opinion than the work done on film.
  
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LOTR by Gantic · 2003-09-20 09:10 · Score: 2, Funny

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
"L0tR" by dupper · 2003-09-20 09:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Aren't you the hip little AOLer.
Re:LOtR 3 Movie Marathon by GoofyBoy · 2003-09-20 09:17 · Score: 2, Insightful

How many hours sitting in one spot?

Why not do this:
Wait until all extended versions are out and get/rent a big screen tv.

Watch at your own pace with more movie.

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Damnit it's not a trilogy by rmohr02 · 2003-09-20 09:20 · Score: 2, Insightful

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.)
1. Re:Damnit it's not a trilogy by Gherald · 2003-09-20 09:30 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  This is about the movies which are, in fact, a trilogy. The books are irrelevant to this event.
  
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2. Re:Damnit it's not a trilogy by american+dissident · 2003-09-20 09:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  The books are irrelevant to this event.
  Sadly, they were pretty much irrelevent to the movie makers as well.
3. Re:Damnit it's not a trilogy by Esion+Modnar · 2003-09-20 10:13 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  I seem to recall that the books were published UK first, and that when a publishing company (Ace? Doubleday?) in the US saw how popular they were, starting printing their own editions without paying Tolkien royalties.
  It was only after this situation became publicized (and protested) did they back down and start paying Tolkien his due. And even then it was only because a serious boycott was being organized.
  
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4. Re:Damnit it's not a trilogy by rmohr02 · 2003-09-20 10:32 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  people generally consider it to be a trilogy
  That's exactly my point--it isn't a trilogy, but people think it is.
5. Re:Damnit it's not a trilogy by Overly+Critical+Guy · 2003-09-20 14:21 · Score: 4
  
  Honestly, that's a silly and uptight pet peeve.
  
  There are three books. What harm is there in referring those three books, as a collective whole, a trilogy of books?
  
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6. Re:Damnit it's not a trilogy by floydigus · 2003-09-20 19:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah, yeah! And the bible! It's not one book its several too! I hate it when people call it a book! Let's get together and start a club!
  
  Tosser.
  
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Great timing! by FrostedWheat · 2003-09-20 09:26 · Score: 3, Interesting

Just the right time for those traveling to the Linux Expo 2003. Sweet!

And here was me thinking this country was boring. :)
Re:LOtR 3 Movie Marathon by sllim · 2003-09-20 09:27 · Score: 4, Informative

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.
Yawn :-) by traskjd · 2003-09-20 09:37 · Score: 3, Interesting

This is old, we had the exhibition here in NZ for a year or so.

It is a good one however - I highly recomend everyone who can see it to go and see it :)

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Re:Am I the only person by dswensen · 2003-09-20 09:39 · Score: 4, Informative

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.
YES, um and no! by Hal+The+Computer · 2003-09-20 09:42 · Score: 2

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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Also at the London Science Museum... by FTL · 2003-09-20 10:01 · Score: 4, Informative

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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1. Re:Also at the London Science Museum... by reddish · 2003-09-20 13:40 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  I was there last Wednesday - the Differential Engine II is built according to the specs Babbage laid out but they were unable to build it in his time - the Science Museum commisioned it I believe.
  
  Apart from the Babbage stuff, the computer department wasn't too impressive IMHO. I did like the real WW2 V2 rocket they have on display - I didn't realize it was so huge till I saw it! And the actual Apollo 8 capsule that went around the moon (test-driving for the Apollo 11) was also neat.
  
  Their display of seventeenth/eighteenth century measurement equipment on the third floor is also rather impressive, if you like that kind of stuff. I've had the pleasure to do some work on remote sensing measurement equipment calibration in the last years, so I can appreciate the difficulties that these guys had to overcome back then. They came up with quite a lot of clever tricks!
  
  One nice feature of the science museum is that it is free to enter (as in beer ;-)) .... You have to pay a couple of pounds though for the LoTR exhibit.
Seen it - It's great by Coryoth · 2003-09-20 11:10 · Score: 2, Informative

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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Been there, done that... a year ago! by mindslip · 2003-09-20 13:20 · Score: 2, Interesting

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.

mindslip
Re:Am I the only person by ckd · 2003-09-20 13:32 · Score: 2, Informative

Who finds it a little strange that a science and history museum is having an exhibition dedicated to a work of fiction ?

It's not the first time they've done something like this...they did a James Bond exhibition earlier.

Y'see, many of the museums in the UK no longer charge admission for regular exhibits (though many have donation boxes at the entrances)...special exhibits like this are a way to both get more people to visit and to make some extra money.