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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 542461" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!I have to agree with my friend Colonel Hardisson. I read somewhere or another that noone wanted to do the film at all, and Peter Jackson was *just* able to persuade New Line Cinema to produce and fund the project, which at $310 MILLION DOLLARS, if I recall, the most expensive film project of its kind EVER attempted. It is a huge amount of money, and it has been said that if this project didn't pay off for New Line, then they would have gone bankrupt as a company. The fact that FOTR brought in $860 million dollars worlwide is *after the fact*. At the time, of course, it was an impossibly huge gamble for New Line Cinema.What's the point? No forty-hour totally faithful Lord of the Rings project would ever be done, because this one, as it is, was just barely done on a shoestring and a prayer.What has been accomplished? A huge, excellent spectacle of a movie that faithfully tells the Lord of the Rings story, and has done so in such magnificent and beautiful ways as to make film and box-office history. It has also caused a huge increase in reading, as millions of people are right now, either re-reading Tolkien's books, or reading them for the first time, solely because of these movies. That by itself is a fantastic, honourable, and noble accomplishment indeed. In addition, Peter Jackson's fine films have now accomplished something that really has never been done before--fantasy movies, at least the Tolkien version of it--have been beautifully and wonderfully done, and done with such skill and glory as to actually reshape the very ideas and standards on what is thought worthwhile to do or not. Jackson has and will no doubt continue, to have a profound, if subtle effect on the way and style in which fantasy movies are made. And finally, Jackson has succeeded in bringing so much of Middle Earth to a vibrant, glorious life for all to enjoy. These films are a beautiful, majestic accomplishment, and Peter Jackson has shown himself to pour his passion and his committment for the last four years into making the best Lord of the Rings movie that is ever to be made. Noone else would have given it one tenth the love and committment that Jackson and his team have done. The rest of the movie making world would have made some shallow, foul farce of a movie on the same level as the goddamned "dungeons & dragons" movie, supposedly made by someone who was "totally committed" to making a great film portraying Dungeons & Dragons. Indeed, that is what we would have seen, had someone else been persuaded to try the project.I'm so glad that Peter Jackson has made such a fantastic and excellent set of movies. OOH-RAH!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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