What follows are a few examples, presented here in order.
- Sauron's Defeat - 2500 years to rediscovery of Ring, Gollum 500 years, Bilbo, 60 = 3060 years
- "Incident with the dragon"
- "Keep it secret. Keep it safe."
- "Understand. I would use this ring out of a desire to do good. But through me it would do great and terrible evil."
- "Hobbit's Leaf" = Pot?
- Wizard Battle (no pyrotechnics - just telekinetics)
- Giant Eagles?
- "Speak friend and enter" - the wizard doesn't understand what Frodo does
- I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going
- "The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of man."
- Going to have to call 'bullshit' on the mithril chainmail
- Gimli calls her a "witch" - IMMEDIATELY DISTRUST THIS WOMAN
- Aragorn and Boromir have a bro-chat
- "some things that have not yet come to pass" - implies predetermined fate
- Orcs = Corrupted Elves (the greatest 'mortal' good becoming the greatest 'mortal' evil)
- Standing Death of Boromir
There are obviously a few key details missing from these notes, but mostly I wanted to provide an opportunity for discussion. Did anyone else tackle watching the movie like this? And if so, what sorts of notes did you write down, and why?
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A few things:
ReplyDeleteFirst, there is absolutely no need to reference hentai on a class blog. Honestly there are a million other funny references you could have made that would have been more tasteful and humorous. That's beside the point though.
Second, because I've seen this movie about a million times I decided to rewatch it and ask myself about how magic is being used and what connotations it has in the society of Middle Earth. There are three main races, elves, men, and dwarves, with orcs and hobbits tacked on kind of as an afterthought. Each race uses magic in some sort of way, often unique to the race itself. And in that same thought, each race has examples of magic being used for good and evil. Magic itself seems to be accepted because of its neutrality - the people of Middle Earth recognize that it is the person who wields the magic that makes the difference. I think that's pretty neat.
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ReplyDeleteI have watched this movie.... a lot. A lot, a lot. I think that it is 87 shades of awesome (even though personally I prefer The Two Towers).
ReplyDeleteThere is a kind of interesting notion of fate and freewill throughout these movies. Many characters (especially elves) look into the future several times. However, the future is seldom exactly the same. There are visions of a brighter future, and of a future conquered by evil, depending on their personal outlook, and how the struggle with the ring is going at that specific time. To me these movies utilize the idea of fate, but at the same time demonstrate that fate can be largely impacted an even changed as a result of the decisions and actions taken by individuals.
Also on a side note. Why, out of everything else, did the mithril bother you? Is it that chainmail is vulnerable to thrusting blows, so the spear should have still gone through anyway? Or was it just that the armor was super strong? Sorry if that stuck in my mind, but in a movie that also featured seemingly sentient fireworks, a mace wielding villain who "explodes" about three people with every swing of his weapon, and breeding an army of super-soldier orc-human hybrids out of muddy holes in the wall, why do you specifically call 'bullshit' on mithril chainmail?