Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. February 26, 2023

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I said a lot of information last week about how I will appreciate anything that shows respect for the world Tolkien created in his Middle-earth stories. I talked about how I like The Hobbit trilogy, and its only crime was not being as good as Lord of the Rings. I will now talk about the animated movie Ralph Bakshi made in 1978 based on The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. 

I was familiar with Tolkien's stories when I first saw that, just when I started reading The Hobbit. Seeing how every time somebody got stabbed in that movie, it felt like they got stabbed. John Hurt's performance as Aragorn, nearly stole the show for me. The only downside was how Sam was depicted as almost a child, that whined a lot. Some of the rotoscoping was a little disturbing. It looked good on the orcs, but the human or human like characters, it looked a little grotesque. Despite those flaws, I still enjoyed the movie, and it made me eager to finish The Hobbit so I could read Lord of the Rings. It was just like what happened when Peter Jackson saw it. I do not know why Aragorn looked Native American in that version, but as I said, John Hurt gave the best performance in the movie, and that is what made me fall in love with that character. Seeing The Battle of Helms Deep in that movie, it became the chapter I most anticipated when I finally read the book, and because the film was never finished, I was even more eager to see how it ended.

It would be unfair if I don't talk about why the movie was never finished, it is not because of budgeting. It was actually because it was advertised as just Lord of the Rings, and nobody being told it was going to be a two-part film. The producers thought people would not pay to see a movie that was only half the story. Bakshi tried telling them, people would be even more upset if they were lied to, and a falling out with them, so the sequel was never made. That is unless you count, the one Rankin/Bass, who made the animated Hobbit TV special, that made Return of the King. Even so, I always watch that movie the night before I start another Lord of the Rings marathon, and because I enjoy that movie, I looking forward to the upcoming anime film, Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. 

 

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