The Lord of the Rings

We watched a documentary over The Lord of the Rings in class last week. Honestly, I am absolutely not a huge fan of the movies, but I think it was pretty interesting to find out how producers have to think about every detail. Some things kept my attention.

For example at the beginning, they take a shot of the location. It is wonderful, too beautiful to be true, makes us think it is going to be a fantasy movie. Then they talk about how much it was difficult to settle a prologue, and especially to pick a point of view. They chose the ring's point of view, and gave her a powerful female voice as storyteller. I thought it was very interesting, and a great idea.

Then I think a very interesting thing is when they talk about the first time we actually realize the size difference between hobbits and humans : when Gandalphe and Freudo meet. They say they used "forced perspective" (?): put a lot of distance between the two actors and use perspective to make them appear as sized differently. They use the same principle when Gandalphe and Bilbao are in the same room, even if it was a very difficult scene to shot, like they said.