This week on the Frame Work podcast, we’re talking about one of the great achievements of adaptation in the history of movies, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, and as befits such a sprawling and beloved property, it ended up being a long conversation. So long, in fact, that we’ve broken it into a longer series. In this opening hour, we’re talking about some of the revolutionary filmmaking tactics and techniques utilized here (the mo-cap, the forced perspective), the miraculous success of Gollum, how effective Moria is, the universal appeal of the story’s Anti-Evil themes, and also, a bit on the few moments that don’t work as well as the rest, mostly confined to the massive The Return of the King.
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