In the fall of 2003, I had just entered high school and was placed in 19th class. Our dormitory is a room with Class Twenty. We have bunk beds and large bunk beds. Every day we have to pass an iron bridge to the school playground and the teaching building. I have been in this old campus for a year and a half. At that time, I usually read pirated books in my dormitory on weekends. When I felt it was time to do my homework, I would go back to the classroom to do some homework.
About one afternoon, Xiao Zhiyuan was chatting next to my lower bunk. I don’t remember if he intended to chat with me, or if I was involved when he was chatting with others, I don’t remember what the topic was. Turn to "Lord of the Rings". I was sitting on the bed and Xiao stood by the bed, making gestures with his hands, explaining to me the plots of the first and second parts of "The Lord of the Rings". I can't forget what he said in my life, especially "Double In the scene of the tree man opening the floodgate in Isengard in "Taqibing", I have for more than half a year to forcefully imagine what it is like.
Then he said that the movie was far bigger than what he described.
Then he said that two movies have been released, only one a year, and the domestic release is half a year later than abroad.
Then he said that the third finale will be released this year, but there will be a long wait in China.
Then he said, just like "Star Wars" first tells the main story, and then there is a prequel, "Lord of the Rings" also has a prequel.
It seems that I was implanted with some kind of Gu. I searched for books related to "Lord of the Rings" everywhere in bookstores, but I didn't find one. Finally, I ran into "The Two Towers" in a bookstore on Shengli Er Road where I often buy literary masterpieces. "" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". At that time, I didn’t know how to pirate the original editions. There were CDs in them. The prices were all over 30. I hesitated and went in and out many times from the bookstore. Finally, I made up my mind. It took more than 40 yuan to win these two books, which is the discounted price. I didn't know what I could do with the VCD inside. The book was printed in two colors. Later I learned that it was not the full version. The VCD was also a fake. It was another film. That was when I bought a VCD player in the second semester of high school in the second semester of high school. I bought a VCD player and took it home with me. of. What I remember most clearly is that the first chapter of "The Two Towers" is "The Death of a Hero," and the first sentence is "Aragorn hastened his pace". Later I learned that it was a fragment of Boromir's tragic death. After reading the book, I had no impression of the plot. At that time, I didn't know the quality of translation and contemporary Western literature at all.
In the spring of 2004, when I was a semester of high school, I chose liberal arts. The three classes from 18 to 23 were liberal arts classes. On the fourth or third floor of the building near the cafeteria, I was still in class 19. There are twice as many boys, which is different from the previous class. I was at home for seven days during the May 1st holiday. At that time, the county TV station didn’t have any original programs. TV dramas were broadcast in the morning, but pit in the afternoon. After the animation was broadcast in the evening, there would always be a movie with English original sound and Chinese subtitles. I felt good at that time. It’s amazing, often after watching a movie, I don’t know what it is called. Then there are five days to broadcast the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, each of which is broadcast on two days. Another magical thing is that the TV stations with normal antennas only have pitting on the screen the next afternoon, but those with cable TV can watch the rebroadcast the next afternoon. When the second half of the first episode was replayed, I happened to be playing at Wang Feiming’s house in the first house in our row. Zhu Dan, Zhu Genghua, Wang Xiao and my brother were all there. Maybe I was playing Xiaobawang learning machine or playing poker. , And then I saw the replay. Everyone was surprised how the effect of the movie could be so incredible: Mine of Moria, Balrog, Orcs, I really thought Gandalf was dead, and I racked my brains to think of the plot that Xiao Zhiyuan said in the past. , I can't recall that Gandalf in the gray will become Gandalf in the white.
The tragedy is that only the first half of the third part was watched. It happened to be where Frodo drove Sam away, and I was about to go back to school to study at night. I couldn't accept it at all. First, I went to the city library to find a book, and wanted to borrow the third original work, but the book was borrowed. I went back to school and pestered Gong Jietao at the same table to tell me the following plot. He had seen it a long time ago, and he talked a little bit faintly, but my Gu was still restless. With this regret, I felt the first semester of the second year of high school, which was the fall of 2004. The first semester of high school and the second year of high school are still in the original dormitory, but the roommates have changed a group. Previously, it was the 19th class before the division. Now it is the 19th class after the division. My neighbor, the bed is next to the bed. , Is Zeng Jianguo. He and Gong Jietao are my best friends in high school. We were at the same table for a while, in the classroom on the first floor of the teaching building. That year, the basketball team of the class won the first place in the school game, and that was also us. I missed that time when studying was the easiest and easiest.
Unexpectedly, the first one who took me to the Internet cafe overnight was the good student Zeng Jianguo. I used to want to go to the Internet cafe overnight in order to finish the second half of the third part. That was the first time I walked into an Internet cafe. I didn't know anything, I couldn't use the mouse, I couldn't use the input method, and I couldn't open the movie. There are many movies on the computer of the Internet cafe. I asked my boss to help me find the third part of "Lord of the Rings". After watching it, I looked for another "Sophie's World" that I wanted to watch, but I couldn't find it. It was late at night, and that Internet cafe could not stay overnight, so I wandered the street all night with a book I borrowed from the library, reading a book, and eating an egg fried rice at a street stall. Had two egg fried rice that night, in two places. The book I read that night was "Little Women". Later, he slipped out of school all night. Zeng Jianguo usually played CS and games like Red Alert. I just watched movies and made up many movies that I didn't want to watch before. At the city library every weekend, my favorite magazines are "Popular Movies" and "Watching Movies". Later, I must buy every issue of "Watching Movies". They are all in the first bookstore on Shengli Er Road. There are many martial arts. There are always seven or eight copies of "Watching Movies" in the novel house. Once Zeng Jianguo caught a glimpse of me watching Will Smith's Robocop. He said: How come I haven't noticed such a beautiful movie.
In the second semester of high school, in the spring of 2005, the school moved to a new campus in the suburbs where rape blossoms bloomed. It was dusty and closed management. The students in the city also had to live on campus. This caused some confusion. I was reluctant to study at school. I chatted with classmates in the front and back rows during class. I played the tape on the Walkman and listened over and over again. My favorite at the time was TWINS songs. From the first Mandarin album to all subsequent songs, tapes and VCDs were sold. Later, I bought a VCD player. Although it was a little far away at that time, many people in our school were still willing to walk over to the Internet cafe on Shengli Er Road overnight, then eat a bowl of wonton or rice noodles the next day, and go back to school to sleep. Sometimes I would go to the city library with the books I wanted to return. Later, the city library moved to the vicinity of Luyu Square. I still went there every other week. During high school, I read about fifty books there. I have also stolen several books with beautiful maps. At that time, I spent the whole night in Internet cafes reviewing the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and began to study the film industry seriously.
It was from the beginning of the research on this film that I began to know what the director and the producer are, what special effects are, what is the box office, and the Oscars, and the summer and Christmas files. I have studied all the actors of "Lord of the Rings" one by one and looked for their works. When I was in college, Thunder was still very useful. I ran all the works directed by Peter Jackson. There are many things in the early evil horror films that have been passed down in the "Lord of the Rings" and "King Kong". I also know that when Kate Winslet was very young, he acted in Peter Jackson's low-cost movies. When the protagonist of Cronenberg’s "Promise of the East" was nominated for an Oscar actor, I carefully watched the performance of Aragon’s actor Vigo Mortensen. It was really wonderful and I also learned that Mortensen is A low-key painter with a wide range of interests, not as rough as his looks, and many years later, when this dedicated Nordic actor appeared in the "Green Book" as a potbellied Italian, I was surprised that he hadn't had a movie for many years. However, every shot is extremely fascinating. And Hugo Weaving. I really like his clear and steady English pronunciation. His villain in the "The Matrix" trilogy is extremely cool. Later, when he returned to "The Hobbit" without his role. When I was in "People", I was so happy. There is also Queen Cate Blanchett, perhaps the most accomplished actress among these actors and an actress who has maintained a high standard all year round. It is much better than Liv Tyler, and I was very fascinated by Liv Tyler at the time. , I also found all of her works. Until the second and third seasons of the third season of "Famous Shu", there was a tall Liv Taylor. I was still very moved. Of course, the most irresistible must be Orlando Bloom. I was shocked as soon as I played, and I still have it. At that time, the character illustrations in the movie magazine were reduced and pasted on the notebook. Such an idiot's past was quite embarrassing to think about. Later, I heard a saying that ten years after "Lord of the Rings", when the same group of actors gathered on the crew of "The Hobbit", some people said that everyone was old, but Orlando Bloom was not old at all. There are also actors of all ages, such as Ian McLean and Elijah Wood, Magneto in "X-Men" and the little villain Kevin in "Sin City", all of which are extremely impressive.
There is also the music composed by Howard Shaw for the trilogy, and I listened to it more than a hundred times. The parallel MP3 bought in the first semester of the university can only be loaded with songs in MP3 format, and the capacity is only 512MB, so I downloaded the trilogy. The original soundtrack, I spent half a day in the Internet cafe using various complicated software to convert it into MP3 format and then compress and copy it into MP3. All the songs, except the original soundtrack of "Lord of the Rings" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" are not mine. Will delete it. In the second semester, I did a few months of tutoring and bought a MP4 with a capacity of 1G. It was still those songs. However, it took me half a year to let Lao Chen in the dormitory next door lose me, and I was heartbroken by the information in it. It was also from this time that I became fascinated by the original soundtrack of the movie (OST) and made a notebook. I copied a lot of the catalogues of the original soundtrack in more than two years. "The music written by Hans Zimmer, and all the original soundtracks of Hans Zimmer, as well as works by many of his musicians such as Klaus Badet and others. The soundtrack of "Lord of the Rings" has been heard the most times. However, another sad thing is that my laptop with a lot of original soundtracks was stolen in a cafe in early 2016. The information inside can no longer be retrieved, and I don’t have the energy to search again. After all, it’s just those. I downloaded the original soundtrack in four to five years when eDonkey was still working well.
In short, every time I go online, yes, after I learned to use a search engine, I always look up all the old news related to "Lord of the Rings". The official website is very slow to open, and I have patiently collected a lot of pictures. It's a pity that there is no place to store it, and all of them disappeared when the computer was turned off. Then, I followed the path of directors, producers, and actors and actresses to watch movies after washing. I found all their works and recorded them one by one. I spent all night in Internet cafes in high school and dedicated them to those chained by The Lord of the Rings. Film.
In the third year of high school, Joyo.com was able to order books by mail. I invested all my pocket money on buying books. Every time someone counts who wants to buy what books, I will study carefully with the catalogue of the booklet, Yilin Publishing House. The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit" were bought at that time, green paper, and some movie stills on the corners. As far as feelings are concerned, this set of books that I read under the eaves every winter and summer vacations is more accurate and beautiful than the later version of Shanghai Translation Publishing House that I miss. Every time I see a plot, I want to correspond to the movie, and imagine how I will be a director one day in the future. I have had this dream for a long time, and it belongs only to the young me.
"Lord of the Rings" sparked a genre in the beginning of the century, that is, epic films, a bunch of bad movies with magnificent scenes, all of which were adapted from King Arthur, Alexander the Great, Theseus, the Trojan War, and Beowulf. Many sci-fi or fantasy movies in the United States pursue a certain epic effect as they go to the back. For example, the second and third parts of "Pirates of the Caribbean" were shot back to back inspired by "Lord of the Rings", adding too dense information, as a diehard Fan, I watched it at least ten times, and wrote several thousand-word notes on Renren.com's journal. Unfortunately, I lost all of them. To put it simply, "Lord of the Rings" must have been watched the most times, perhaps thirty times. The specific numbers have not been counted, depending on how many times have been spent overnight in college. It’s very likely that I spent seven to eighty nights in college. I only learned to play stand-alone games when I was an exchange student in Jinan. I kept playing "Age of Empires II". At that time, I took Xiaobai to the east of the East Campus when I didn’t agree. The Internet cafe outside the door eats egg-filled biscuits, and then goes to the Internet cafe upstairs overnight, which is cheap and energetic. That game is still very classic.
Then, when I was a freshman, I did one thing. When I was searching for books about "Lord of the Rings" in a bookstore, I was pleasantly surprised to find the director's biography. Then I clipped a letter and mailed it to Sister Min. I was repeating in Xiantao. When we were in high school, it was because of "Lord of the Rings". Later, we said that we must go to the theater to watch "The Hobbit". One of the good things I collected during my freshman year was the first script of "Lord of the Rings" with a CD-ROM audio, which was good for learning English. At that time, I knew that the opening narration was dubbed by Cate Blanchett. I also typed out many moving fragments word by word, and compiled a manuscript.
Then, the extended version appeared. On a certain weekend night, when everyone in the university dormitory and the dormitory next door was dispatched to play games all night, there was a new computer screen near the school and its clear and spacious Internet cafe. I wanted to review "The Lord of the Rings" ", so I started from the beginning and found that some of the content is new, and in the second part, there are more new content, just look at the progress bar, four hours! At that time, I didn’t know how to check movie information on some good websites, and found that this version of "The Two Towers" was too shocking. It was exactly the same effort as the officially released version. At that time, there was more respect for the director. The second and third parts have nearly the capacity of one movie, which is about 100 minutes. The Two Towers have several more battles. The third part has a more detailed depiction of Boromir and Faramo of Gondor, Allah The section of Gong calling the dead is also more complete. The excitement is beyond words.
Later, after I knew the word 4K and experienced a 4K clear picture quality in a theater in Suzhou, in addition to the 4K high-definition Blu-ray version of "The Lord of the Rings", the downloaded large-volume version is also to be seen. . Later, for several years, I was waiting for a reliable news of the prequel "The Hobbit". However, after the production company changed the master, the director changed, and the prequel became a series of commercial operations, I Actually only look forward to the scene. The 48-frame attempt did not trigger a revolution in the film industry, so I don’t understand the effect of a high frame rate. When this new trilogy was released, it was during my failed Ph.D. study period. I didn't go to the cinema to watch IMAX. At that time, my interest in film was greatly reduced and I focused on theology.
Then, in 2021, the twentieth anniversary of the release of "The Lord of the Rings", when the theaters were not connected due to the epidemic, "The Lord of the Rings" was re-screened immediately after "Avatar". Eleven years ago, when there were only ten IMAX screens in the country, my five friends and I lined up in Wuhan Wanda for a long time before we lined up to the corner seats in the next morning. We finally experienced the immersive experience. The pinnacle of motion capture, I revisited the IMAX version of "Avatar" with Mrs. Mei at Li Cang Wanda this spring. I felt that eleven years had passed too fast, and it was too late to react. When the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was released in China, the Chinese film market was just beginning, with a box office of only tens of millions. However, the box office is no longer important. It is always warm and inviting to be able to relive a dream of twenty years. In tears.
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