(I organized the lecture notes. The language is more colloquial, please forgive me.)
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These great creations are equally valuable: Fargon Forest, Golden Palace, Death Swamp, Gollum.
Even if Tolkien has a very detailed description, it is very visual and has a great sense of space, but it is another kind of talent to create.
Jackson saw all the scenes in a helicopter, but he found that there was no way to complete it in the real New Zealand geographic space. He had to build the set.
Of course, everything is nothing compared to the shooting of Saint Helm Valley. In this cold and wet place, everyone has worked together sincerely for almost a year. So this also created the best war scene.
Weta Studio is very good, they created all the shapes, and the art is the starting point for all shooting work.
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But more importantly, what the screenwriter told us is that they have to do two things. That is to say how to tell a story? Storytelling is the most important thing.
The first thing that caused Frodo to encounter the biggest obstacle in the journey was General Faramy. It also allowed him to experience ideological struggles. From the beginning, he wanted to dedicate it to his father, until he finally understood the important role of destroying the Lord of the Rings, so-liberation. This is the story of the ups and downs, full of suspense.
The second thing is to create an atmosphere for the Battle of the Helm Valley, so that the concept of the enemy and the widow will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the chance of them winning is very small. Then the climax of the final victory can come so thoroughly.
This is why the movie is so great.
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The picture starts from the rising sun in the mountains of New Zealand. Then the camera moved to the end, the axis of the camera moved in the opposite direction, backwards, until the line said "roll back to the dark", the camera penetrated the mountains and saw the Balrog. It is like Sauron's eyes, knowing everything. A good start.
Immediately afterwards, Gandalf fell off the cliff. There were Frodo and other reference objects in front of him, which was also a mirror to the end. The photography was first transferred from the x-axis to the y-axis, and then to the z-axis, to follow the person who fell, the omnipotent God’s perspective Naturally appearing again. Then we saw that the action of holding the sword also had the axis of the camera rotated, which was extremely close-up.
As if this magic movie can be defined by a smooth movie lens, its essence is designed.
However, the axial movement of the three people from Meili and Peiping talking about Aragon, and then to Aragon is the same. The axial movement of the camera is to let us see the gleaming stream between the mountains. Otherwise, it loses its meaning and effect.
Every shot is perfect, I didn't turn on the sound to watch it, I just looked at the lens.
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Layer after layer of rendering of the war atmosphere of the Battle of the Helm Valley:
From the general desperate atmosphere, the king began to recite the poem "Who am I?" and the enemy was marching. Aragorn encouraged the sword-training children to say "There is always hope", and then put on the armor, as in the "No. A drop of blood. At night, Liegulas came to apologize, "I shouldn't be desperate." The armor worn by the dwarf warrior Jinli was too long, making people laugh. When the trumpet sounded, a large number of elven soldiers began to join, and then the castle stood in a stern formation, very quiet, and then began to thunder, and the people shivered in the basement in fear. Aragorn used elves to tell everyone not to be soft. The officers and soldiers watched the flashing light in front of him closely. The armored half-orcs, the enemy commander raised his sword to signal, attacked like rain, close-ups of their mouths. Jin Li couldn't see anything. Close-up of civilians frightened. An veteran didn't control his bow and arrow, so he let it out, unknowingly starting the first outpost of the war. Only then did it officially start, how many levels do you see?
After King Shorten murmured, Saruman is that what you can do? At this time, a half-orc with a torch was about to ignite the bomb that broke the city wall. The whole war escalated again.
Then the next question came. On the other side of the battlefield, Meili and Piping encouraged the tree elves to fight Saruman. And Frodo is also deeply in the hands of Faramir. The three branches run in parallel. Does this make the section of the war less vigorous or strengthen it? You can also think about such a question. If you don't perform like this, is there a better way to perform?
My answer believes that this is the best way to perform. This simultaneous event is more soothing and more able to bring out the fierce battlefield. At the same time, because the audience's psychology is very tense, this can make the audience relax, which is to put in the air (bumping air) for the overall viewing paragraph, which is very important.
These are true knowledge.
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Let's analyze, where are the knots of war?
I think this comes from John Ford’s westerns. It is a relief to liberate them when they need to be resolved the most or when they are trapped. This is called the last minute theory.
Let's first look at the performance in the war:
Long-distance weapons. When the temples are not yet connected, we use bows and arrows, and the other side uses crossbows, and the opponent’s rate of fire is faster. The two soldiers took the sword and axe only after they met, and the sound of slashing on the armor and flesh was very oppressive. Interspersed with pictures of orderly placement of ladders. The voices of Jin Li and Liegulas count the casualties, like the Japanese devils in the Nanjing Massacre: one, two, three, four, five, six... Very economical means of performance. The most important thing is that there is no duplication.
The second stage: After the city wall was finally blasted to a vacancy, even the children started smashing stones and acting as militiamen. How miserable. During the sprint, the shots and close-up shots alternately switch. Ligulaas used the shield as a scooter, which made people bloody.
Phase 3: Announcing the retreat, the death of the elven commander Harda. Time began to slow down, and a female voice was singing from the sky, embracing him to heaven. It's a pity, his hands become weak at the critical moment, and his hands become soft.
The most critical climax of this period is that Aragorn threw Jin Li onto the Fengyao Bridge, blazing a trail. At the same time, dramatic changes are taking place in two other parts of the world. The peace-loving treemen saw that a large number of their friends were destroyed as fuel, and angrily began to attack Saruman. The young general Faramir also encountered the attack of the ring spirit at this time, and realized the precious spirit of Frodo.
This is what I call the last-minute effect. The king was desperate and planned to die in the castle. Who could resist such hatred? But the sober Aragorn said to let the people escape from the secret road, we rushed out! At this time it was dawn, and he remembered Gandalf's promise. This was the effect of the last minute's momentum, and at this time the Treant also launched a fierce attack, and beat the empty-nest Saruman. —
The king was also awakened, and decided to rush out with a Ganluo Khanate warrior, and fought between the two sides.
Don't give them a chance to save them when the hardest decision is not reached.
This is the mystery of making movies, this is the magic of the Saint Helm Valley textbook.
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