The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

George Lucas’ Star Wars revolutionized special effects and the film industry as a whole. The science fiction saga Star Wars and astounded the world when it was first released and its popularity has grown tremendously since its inception. The effects team that worked on Star Wars nearly invented special effects and really popularised the use of them. Star wars also had a big effect on culture and the entire film industry. even decades after its release, Star Wars has only grown in popularity…

Nowadays, the film industry has become one of the most lucrative businesses. Production companies tend to create the perfect strategies to maximize profit while minimizing expenses; as in result, sometimes creativity is left behind if the cost is too high. Making a sequel of a successful movie often times seems to be the right choice in terms of investments, not only because the public has previous knowledge of the original film; therefore a reintroduction of the plot is not necessary, also the…

number of films for the company. The studio is also responsible for the newest telling of the Samson story, and they are currently in post production on a more faith inspired version of Unbroken, most recently adapted for the screen by Angelina Jolie. Their most popular film by far is God’s Not Dead, which reinvigorated the Christian film movement, however when you look at ratings, something still does not make sense.…

reading, part of my literacy history is writing. Being a student, I have written numerous amounts of papers from research papers, narratives, and expository essays. I also blog regularly for my own entertainment about musical artist, pop culture, and films. Currently, I read for fun when I have free time, and I produce content for my blog when inspiration strikes, but I do read at an academic level continuously and write academically due to me…

the last century, movie producers have started making films based on popular books; In fact these movies have become a staple in the movie business. However, most of the time, the movies that producers choose to bring to the silver screen have been difficult to adapt and often do not follow the same storyline as their origin. Some of the time this trait has been enormously successful in the case of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit Trilogy, The Harry Potter series, and many more. However…

Calm Down, Dear. Name the odd one out: A boat, a fridge, a stapler, a woman, a colander, a spoon. The objectification of women is everywhere. Not just in the ubiquitous images that inundate the media of photo shopped woman, dolled up to meet the laborious requirements of today’s beauty standards. Or the bizarre advertisements for such things as yogurts where the women are dressed in very little clothing for no apparent reason but the male gaze (I don’t need the camera to linger on a woman’s…

Titanic was released during the holidays, studios have looked at the holiday season as a prime spot to release huge movies. Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Avatar, and Titanic have all seen gigantic numbers during this time of the year. This makes Winter the new Summer for movies. Sure, there are now Avengers films being released at that time, but December is where they roll out the films that could be nominated for awards. If you take a look at this holiday season — I have taken a guess at…

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. When he was only 3 years of age his mother brought him and his younger brother, Hilary, to live in England, where she was originally from. Tolkien's father died soon after, whilst he was still in South Africa by himself, thus the family remained in England. During the summer of 1896 his mother found them a home in the hamlet of Sarehole, which is located just outside the city Birmingham (Curles). Tolkien and…

controversial belief that film has contributed surprisingly little to art. Graham claims that this medium has failed, time and time again, to give any significant art, despite it being a super-medium. While he does, in fact, defend the claim that film is an art form, he does not seem to support the idea that film is important, or high, art. As Graham sees it, this medium is one incapable of achieving artistic greatness. This essay will attempt to evaluate Graham’s various claims about film as a…

Harry Potter, who? Walking through campus, a mall, or even through a park, one will see people reading several different types of novels. However, nowadays it is rare to find a J.K Rowling novel in sight. It is much more common to find the works of Suzanne Collins or John Green being read now since the Harry Potter series ended in 2011. One will even find that it is increasingly common to find people who know nothing of the “chosen one” and would prefer to keep it that way. Due to these things…