![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't know how that plays with the Tolkie purists, but I'm disappointed. Because Jackson has cut Saruman out of Return of the King: the evil lord so brilliantly conveyed by Christopher Lee. But imagine if Milton had decided to cut Satan out of Paradise Lost. It is another triumph for production designer Grant Major and cinematographer Andrew Lesnie.īut does it deserve those excitable claims of greatness? A moral exposition of good versus evil? After The Two Towers, I heard normally sensible critics jabbering the word "Miltonic". Technically it really is superb, with breathtaking landscape tableaux and settings, seamlessly meshing cyber-geography with the New Zealand locations. In Jackson, the Tolkien legend found the perfectly sympathetic director to realise its Arthuro-Nordic saga, and in Lord of the Rings, the computer-generated image technology found the perfect medium for the stunning new effects now possible. Was it really only two years ago that Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings started? This giant movie marathon has dominated everyone's attention and its reputation has grown exponentially while other event-movie franchises have floundered. ![]()
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