LotR Cleans Up at AFI 304
bigdreamer writes "Looks like LOTR is a big hit even among non-nerds. this CNN article says it won the most awards, including Best Picture, at the first annual American Film Institute awards Saturday."
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LotR Cleans Up at AFI
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Re:Box office totals? (Score:5, Informative)
(box office totals are updated every Monday). This is over a three week period.
Last weekend's gross was $23,000,000.
FYI: In 8 weeks Harry Potter has grossed $300,500,000 so I don't think that LOTR has broken any records yet.
Re:Three whole awards (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Three whole awards (Score:2, Informative)
Eh... I don't know. CNN... hype over LotR...?
Anyway, it won best picture which is a big enough deal. And then two other awards. Assuming this is more than any other film that was up for awards this year then yeah, it is a big deal. According to the article Black Hawk Down and In the Bedroom both had the most nominations (5) and since Black Hawk Down didn't win any it stands to reason that three awards was probably the most any movie won.
Re:Christians Nerds (Score:2, Informative)
Quote: "As for the inner meaning or 'message,' it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical."
Take this for what it's worth, that he didn't intend it. However, his biographical information reveals a lot about the characters he wrote and how life affected his books. So in a way you are right, but he's not 'preaching to the choir.'
Arguably, though, you can see a lot of ways in which his life influenced the book. World War I was very trying for Tolkien, and indeed, most of Britain. He lost all but I think one friend in the war, and you can see how the relationship between Frodo and Sam is not 'gay' as many have suggested in movie reviews and such, but merely the type of love that exists between men fighting on the same side, ie. his experiences in the war. Again, this is my own interpretation.
As far as Catholic influences go, I think it wasn't wholly his Catholic livelihood that affected the writing, as much of what he writes is based off of pagan tales and such. His influence on Western Civilization can be attributed not only to these influences which still exist today (Easter Bunny, Santa Claus) but also the fact that he was a westerner.
Box office stats links here! (Score:3, Informative)
Check out the gross income of movies that are currently in theaters here:l [yahoo.com]
http://movies.yahoo.com/boxoffice/latest/rank.htm
You can compare these totals to the totals of the Top 100 biggest ranking movies of all time here:m l [yahoo.com]
http://movies.yahoo.com/boxoffice-alltime/rank.ht
As you can see, even if it makes the projected estimates for this weekend, it will only be up to #34 in the rankings. However, it's also only been out for 2 weeks... :)
Guess it's time for me to go see it again and help bump it up one more notch...
Re:Box office totals? (Score:3, Informative)
Some guy at Miramax is going to get his ass kicked for wanting to reduce LotR into one movie and driving Peter Jackson away to New Line Cinema, who were ready to fund three movies.
Re:Recency effect? (Score:5, Informative)
More precisely... (Score:3, Informative)
The Elves, if they died, went to Mandos, the Halls of Doom on Valinor. (Valinor was what LotR refers to as "the West", i.e. the "undying lands" where world-weary Elves would travel on the Straight Road from the Grey Havens, aided by Círdan the Shipwright and guided by Ëarendil.) Therefore they did not rejoin Eru Ilúvatar if they died, but rather lived for eternity on Valinor, the lands untouched by death. In other words, even if an Elf is slain, he/she is not really "dead" per se.
But Men who died would leave Ëa, i.e. go beyond the circles of the world to return to Eru Ilúvatar, thus being nearer to him than the Eldar/Elves, who could leave Middle-Earth but not Ëa itself.
The Elves therefore became world-weary, longing to return to Eru, but unable to do so, while Men were only on Middle-Earth a (relatively) short time, after which they came back to him.
From one Tolkien nerd to another. ;-)
Cheers,
Ethelred
Memento was released in 2000 (Score:2, Informative)
Granted, it wasn't released in the US until January 20, but technically it's a 2000-movie, not a 2001-movie and thus shouldn't be competing for best 2001-picture against LotR
Re:Three whole awards (Score:3, Informative)
It's three out of twelve possible. The three awards won (which can be found here [afi.com] for those so inclined) were:
Winning a quarter of the available awards has to be considered "cleaning up" by any standard.
I'm a little miffed that neither Ian McKellen nor Viggo Mortensen got nominated, though; apparently the Best Movie owes nothing to its actors or its director, but rather its production design and digital f/x (which were admittedly both very good).