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Return of the King Wins Four Golden Globes
stubear writes "According to MSNBC, 'Lord of the Rings: Return of the King' won 4 Golden Globes, for Best Picture - Drama, Best Director (Peter Jackson), Best Original Score (Howard Shore), and Best Original Song ("Into the West" by Howard Shore, Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox). LotR: RotK was the big winner for the night, at least for movies. Hopefully LotR: RotK will fare just as well, or better, at the Oscars."
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If you had read the book, you would have known that the "closeness" of Frodo and Sam (which you are presumably referring to) was not added by Peter Jackson, but already present in the original books.
Interesting discussion on the subject here.
As someone who's spent some time in Tokyo I can answer a number of your questions.
1 - The average height of a Japanese male is about 5'4" in contrast to the average western male at 5'10". This is largely due to the still conspicuous absence of dairy in the Japanese diet.
2 - Japanese really don't distinguish between "r" and "l". I'm not sure why this is, but they pronounce English as "Engrish" and Groceries as "Glocelies." It's not really a sterotype if its true.
3 - Japanese food looks like toes. To the average westerner Japanese food is frightening. Raw fish, strange vegetables in stews, unususal sea dwelling creatures prepared in such a way as to show off their oddities. Westerners are used to their food coming shrink wrapped and packaged in such a way as to be un-identifiable. We then cook it until it's burnt and let it wallow in sauces. The Japanese prefer foods to be easily identifiable as to where they came from. Hence it is common practice to serve, say, calamari (squid) whole and steamed. The Japanese also utilize more raw foods in their diet, ranging from fish to eggs.
4 - Five star hotels in tokyo w/ shower heads below 7 feet? More than you'd expect. Hotels in Tokyo are divided into two categories "western" hotels (typicaly themed), and Japanese hotels. Western hotels will genrealy conform to a theme park atmosphere ("wild west" or "hollywood" are both popular themes) and have a resort feel to them. Some more buisnesslike hotels may maintain western facilities without these gimics. In these hotels you will genrealy find showerheads above 7 feet. Japanese hotels don't do this. They will maintain traditional japanese facilities (beds 6 feet in length, traditional restrooms, etc). In such a place you're lucky if the shower head breaks 5 feet (I had to shower on my knees).
The film is designed to highlight the experiance of culture shock.
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One very simple reason. Jackson doesn't have the rights to make the Hobbit (at least yet).
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Nope. It was originally written by Tolkien as 6 books, which were joined up into 3 in order to sell. The books were The Ring Sets Out, The Ring Goes South, The Treason at Isengard, The Ring Goes East, The War of the Ring, and The End of the Third Age
Nope. It was originally written as six parts of one book, which was divided into 3 volumes due to publisher concerns.
Tolkien envisioned the parts being published in one volume as he wrote. The parts are not all of equal length and they would not be individually satisfying.
Golden Globe awards are worthless. They're assigned by a group of allegedly foreign journalists, many of whom are neither foreign nor journalists. They number less than 100.
Golden Slash Awards, selected via a series of slashdot poles, would be far more meaningful. However, that wouldn't even fly, because it's precisely because there are less than 100 highly bribable, easily accessible, award choosers that makes the Golden Globes so attractive to studios and pubilicists. It's a major exercise in 69ing.
Actually, the theory is generally that a movie is in the black for the studio when its domestic gross = production budget. Usually, the overseas market is enough to pay for the distribution/theater cut/ overseas partnerships etc.
It's not always true (movies that do much better worlwide than domestically don't follow this rule), but it's a pretty good rule of thumb