But Lord of the rings is a modern movie?
I mean it was filmed 25 years ago, I guess it depends on your definition of âmodernâ
Howard Shore is the answer
This is an answer Iâm not seeing here enough. The score for LotR just FORCES you to feel the feelings. Donât wanna be happy? Too bad, weâre in the Shire bitch.
good writing. :|
One thing Iâve noticed with newer movies is they do a lot more âtell, donât showâ than old movies.
For example, compare the live action Disney Cinderella to the original animated version. The live action version is mostly a voiceover telling the story of Cinderella. They literally say âHer stepsisters werenât very good at art or musicâ and then have a scene showing them being bad at art and music. The animated version spent the first 20 minutes or so like a Tom & Jerry cartoon.
And this is across movies. I watched Predator recently and there wasnât a lot of exposition about how theyâre there to fight communists or whatever. You pick that up in snippets of dialog in between the action.
It really does feel like movies are dumbing down.
One thing Iâve noticed with newer movies is they do a lot more âtell, donât showâ than old movies.
Main character seeing old friend: Well if it isnât my old friend Daniel, we used to roam these streets as kids, I used to have dinner at your house every day, you were like my brother, I would have done anything for you, I havenât seen you since our other old friend Jake died mysteriously, remember when we used to play videogames all night and made that life long pact that if âHEâ returns we will do what it takes to send him back to the world where he emerged from when we were kids and lived right next door to each other, our mothers were best friends until the incident but they never stopped us from being life long best friends forever, we used to play in the streets all night, me you Daniel and Chris, the rat Pac they called us, best friends for life.
I feel like Dune was a good outlier to this. Itâs the only movie Iâve seen in theater in the last few years and I really enjoyed not having everything explained to me
they do a lot more âtell, donât showâ than old movies
Geez the Netflix Avatar adaptation (a show, not movie, but still) was so bad for this. Despite actually having more runtime and fewer distinct plot points (due to the removal of and consolidation of different side-plots) than the cartoon it was based on, it spent less time showing us why characters think and feel how they do, and straight-up told us every single thing.
I love listening to the original intro 3 times in the first episode.
I would have never known that the 4 nations lived in harmony until the fire nation attacked, or that the Avatar, master of all 4 elements was the only one who could stop them.
I also love learning that Aang wants to eat banana cakes and goof off with his friends instead of being the Avatar by him outright saying it instead of us meeting ANY of these friends in the first place.
I think the biggest reason is that the actors were allowed to act together. Modern movies use so many digital effects that actors arenât even on set together sometimes. Itâs hard to have the same emotions looking at a green screen and a guy in a morph suit.
Just for the first one, right? I remember Ian Mckellen had a breakdown on set because he was sitting in front of the table at Bag End with nothing around him but green screen and was struggling without any other actors.