December 31, 2022 20:30
Difficult shooting forced to get out.
“The Lord of the Rings” became an epoch-making picture that marked the beginning of a new era in the history of world cinema. But the production of such a technically complex film was always in jeopardy, and so director Peter Jackson resorted to many tricks during the filming process.
So, to show the hobbits along with the gnomes in the frame, the operators used forced perspective. The essence of the method lies in the fact that one character is placed once morest the background of the others so that he seems to be smaller. Without this trick, the adaptation of John Tolkien’s novel would have looked much less authentic and impressive.
With the ring of Sauron, the creators also had to be cunning. At the very beginning of the first part, you can see that the artifact does not bounce, falling to the ground, but seems to stick, which spoke of its exclusivity. For this, magnets were placed in the floor, which attracted the object.
Several rings of different sizes were also created. For close-ups, they used a large version of it – such an ornament had to be taken with two hands. It’s funny to imagine crew members dragging a ring the size of a wheel from place to place.
If it were not for the ingenuity and resourcefulness of Peter Jackson, the world would not have seen such a large-scale and amazing film adaptation of the story of the hobbits and the sinister ring.
