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Reseña de la trilogía cinematográfica El Señor de los Anillos/ Review of the trilogy movies The Lord of the Rings

Review by @santiago-yocoy · 1447d · of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power · 1 view

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Reseña de la trilogía cinematográfica El Señor de los Anillos


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La comunidad del anillo

El comienzo de la gran misión, empresa, o cosa, de nueve compañeros para destruir el malvado Anillo Único del Señor Oscuro Sauron que sería utilizado para destruir o esclavizar el mundo...

La he vuelto a ver después de varios años y me ha parecido tan excelente como la recordaba. Con un gran ritmo desde el principio, pues tiene momentos trepidantes con sus debidos momentos de descanso que, o bien conservan bastante suspenso o incluyen sentimientos de relajación o alegría, así como un par de momentos de lo más tristes.

Algo importante es la buena muestra del lugar feliz que es la Comarca de los Hobbits (incluso más idealizada que en los libros), ya que eso hace que merezca la pena luchar por ella y que sea un lugar al que volver para el portador del anillo, Frodo, y sus compañeros hobbits si lo consiguen.

Gandalf se hace adorable desde la primera escena y retrata a la perfección la imagen arquetípica del viejo mago sabio (con sombrero puntiagudo y larga barba).

Del mismo modo, Aragorn es el héroe sin armadura brillante pero de plena confianza, y es en esta más que en las otras dos películas, según recuerdo, en las que se muestra muy bien como ni siquiera un gran espadachín puede vencer (sólo por ser un gran espadachín heroico) a varios enemigos sin hacer un gran esfuerzo o sin ayuda. No es exactamente el Aragorn de los libros, ya que este último es más bien un "soy descendiente de Elendil, heredero de Isildur, portador de la Espada Rota"; aunque eso no lo hace antipático, prefiero la versión menos jactanciosa o menos ampulosa de las películas.

Además de esas cosas tan puntuales, posiblemente el mayor fundamento que sostiene la película, y es sin duda el núcleo de sus minutos finales, es el compañerismo y la lealtad, incluso más que la amistad por sí sola.

Además, la música en ella es sencillamente maravillosa, acompañando perfectamente cada momento con la emoción que se necesite transmitir.

Las Dos Torres

Esta película sigue tres líneas argumentales: Frodo, Sam y Gollum; Merry y Pippin; y Aragorn, Legolas y Gimli. Las conexiones de una línea a otra están muy bien hechas para mantener el tiempo en movimiento y mostrar la continuidad de la guerra del Anillo en diferentes frentes, cada uno con sus propios problemas, con la inferioridad numérica de las fuerzas del bien, y los flaqueos de la voluntad de seguir adelante es común a los tres. Además, la salud mental de Frodo decae mucho más por la influencia del Anillo de lo que había ocurrido en la película anterior, lo que hace que la importancia de Sam crezca para contrarrestarlo.

Aparte de eso, Las dos torres tiene los mismos puntos fuertes que su predecesora: grandes combates, con la batalla del Abismo de Helm a la escala de grandes ejércitos (magnífica llegada, y bienvenido cambio respecto a los libros para mí, la de los elfos de Lorien al Abismo de Helm para luchar lado a lado junto a los hombres una vez más), lazos de amistad, música impresionante, grandes dinámicas de personajes (con una nota especial a la de Smeagol y Gollum, un enfoque diferente al de los libros al hacer un más claro y explícito y fuerte trastorno de personalidad múltiple).

El Retorno del Rey

Las fuerzas de Sauron pronto golpearán la capital de Gondor, Minas Tirith, estando su gobernante, Denethor, en mal estado mental para protegerla, y es Gandalf quien se encargade la defensa de la ciudad cuando comienza el asedio (y es genial cómo, después de que Denethor diga "huyan por sus vidas", cuando Gandalf cabalga ordenando a todos que vuelvan a sus puestos, todos obedecen a la vez). En Rohan, cuando un número insuficiente de jinetes está a punto de dirigirse a Gondor en su ayuda, llega Elrond con Andúril, reforjada de los fragmentos de Narsil, la espada de Elendil, para Aragorn, que entonces decide ir a convocar a los que traicionaron a Isildur hace tiempo y permanecen desde entonces como muertos malditos. Para esto hubiera preferido que se adaptara como en los libros con una diferencia: en el libro, los otros dúnedain y los dos hijos de Elrond se unen a Aragorn para hacer ese viaje, y me hubiera gustado que aquí ocurriera lo mismo, pero con Arwen con ellos y que ella le diera a Aragorn la espada reforjada y luchara junto a él (curiosamente, hay imágenes grabadas de Arwen luchando en el Abismo de Helm; lástima que no cambiaran cuándo se unió a Aragorn en lugar de hacer que no ocurriera).

Para esta batalla, las fuerzas del bien saben que están en gran desventaja, pero deciden luchar hasta la muerte aunque no vean cómo puedan sobrevivir.

Por otro lado, Frodo y Sam son conducidos por el traicionero Gollum-Smeagol a un paso donde una araña gigante intentará comérselos. Gollum consigue que Frodo abandone a Sam, luego Frodo se deshace de Gollum pero es apuñalado y envenenado por la araña, y es el retornante Sam quien la vence, y consiguen, por fin, entrar en Mordor... para descubrir que hay una multitud de orcos entre ellos y el Monte del Destino.

Pero la batalla de Minas Tirith ha sido ganada con la ayuda, primero, de los jinetes de Rohan y su magnífica carga de caballería (gran momento de la historia del cine), y después por el regreso del rey, Aragorn, y el ejército de los muertos. Así, tras la batalla, Aragorn propone marchar hacia la puerta negra de Mordor con las fuerzas que les queden para atraer a los ejércitos de Sauron y dar a Frodo la oportunidad de llegar al Monte del Destino, incluso a costa de sus propias vidas.

En este capítulo final, los temas de la amistad, la valentía a pesar de las adversidades, y la lealtad siguen siendo factores clave, y en cierto modo se potencian porque todos saben que el final está cerca, para bien o para mal. La música está en su punto álgido para los momentos álgidos de la película, las escenas de batalla están impregnadas de grandes discursos para alentar a los combatientes y darles valor, y tanto los personajes principales como los secundarios importantes tienen sus momentos para brillar y terminar sus historias de forma satisfactoria.

Y, al igual que en el libro, es de una brillantez narrativa que Frodo sucumba a la corrupción del Anillo, y ocurre en el mismo momento de estar dentro del Monte del Destino para tirarlo a la lava, y en su lugar se lo pone en un dedo (hubiera preferido que mantuvieran la frase completa que dice en el libro aquí porque es la misma que dijo Bilbo en la primera película en el momento de decidir si dejar atrás el anillo a Frodo como estaba previsto o no, pero el impacto del simple "el anillo es mío" también es bueno), y es gracias a Gollum-Smeagol (y en esta escena no hay forma de saber a ciencia cierta si es Gollum o Smeagol el que actúa, ya que ambos quieren lo mismo en esta parte de la historia) y su lucha con Frodo que el Anillo finalmente acaba en la lava eucatastróficamente (ver eucatástrofe: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucat%C3%A1strofe). Pequeña diferencia con el libro: en la película Frodo se levanta y lucha contra Gollum para recuperar el Anillo, y es a raíz de eso que Gollum cae, aún con el Anillo en la mano, con Frodo colgado en el acantilado y siendo subido por Sam, mientras que en el libro el fracaso de Frodo es aún mayor porque Gollum cae por su cuenta cuando baila de alegría en el semipuente de roca y pisa en falso; me ha gustado un poco más la escena de la película porque la otra es más "seca" en su ejecución. Y así, el héroe cede a la tentación del mal, pero termina triunfante a pesar de todo, y a continuación sigue la coronación y el reencuentro de Aragorn y Arwen, y el regreso a casa del resto de la comunidad.

Sin embargo, Frodo está demasiado herido espiritualmente para abrazar por completo su pacífica vida en la Comarca, así que finalmente se embarca en un barco de los elfos hacia su tierra más allá del mar, con Bilbo, Gandalf, Elrond y Galadriel, y la escena final es para Sam, con su esposa e hijos.



Frodo: Cómo quisiera que nada hubiera sucedido
Gandalf: Igual que todos los que viven eventos difíciles, pero ellos no lo pueden decidir. La única decison posible es qué hacer con el tiempo que tenemos.




WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD


The Fellowship of the Ring

The beginning of the great mission, quest, or thing, of nine companions to destroy the evil One Ring of Sauron which would be use to destroy or enslave the world…

I have rewatched it after several years and I have found it to be as excellent as I remembered it. With a great pace from the beginning, for it has thrilling moments with their due moments of rest that either retains enough suspense or includes relaxation or joyful feelings, as well as a pair of the most sad moments.

An important thing is the good showing of the happy place that the Shire is (even more idealized than in the books), as that makes it worth fighting for and a place to return for the ring bearer, Frodo, and his hobbit companions if they succeed.

Gandalf makes himself adorable from the first scene and portraits perfectly the image of the old wise wizard (with pointy hat and long beard) and is a very lovable character.

Similarly, Aragorn is the not in the shining armour yet fully trustworthy hero, and it is in this one more than in the other two movies, as I recall them, in which there is a magnificent showing of how even a great swordsman can’t beat (just for being a heroic great swordsman) several enemies without making a great effort or without help. He’s not exactly the Aragorn of the books, as the later is more of a “I’m descendant of Elendil, heir of Isildur, bearer of the Broken Sword”; although that doesn't make him unlikable, I prefer the less boasting or less speakingly bombastic version of the movies.

Besides those quite punctual things, possibly the greatest foundation that sustains the movie, and it is certainly the core of its final minutes, is companionship and loyalty, even more than friendship alone.

Also, the music in it is simply wonderful, perfectly accompanying every moment with whatever emotion is needed to convey.

The two towers

This movie follows three storylines: Frodo and Sam and Gollum; Merry and Pippin; and Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli. The connections from one line to the other are done very well to keep time moving and to show the continuity of the war on different fronts, each with its own problems, with the numeric inferiority of the forces of good, and the waves of the will to keep going is common to the three. Besides, Frodo’s mental health declines a lot more due to the influence of the Ring than it had happened in the previous movie, which makes Sam’s importance grow to counter it.

Other than that, The Two Towers has the same strengths of its predecessor: great fights, with The battle of Helm’s Deep in the level of great armies (magnificent arrival, and welcome change from the books for me, that of the Lorien elves to Helm’s Deep to fight side by side with men once more), friendship bonds, awesome music, great characters dynamics (with a special note to the one between Smeagol and Gollum, a different approach than in the books in making a clear and explicit multiple personality disorder).

The Return of the King

Sauron’s forces will soon hit the capital of Gondor, Minas Tirith, with its ruler, Denethor, being in a bad mental shape to protect it, and it’s Gandalf who will take charge of the defence of the city when the siege starts (and it’s great how, after Denethor says “flee for your lives”, when Gandalf rides ordering everyone to return to their posts, they all obey at once). On Rohan, when a known to be insufficient number of riders are about to head to Gondor in their aid, Elrond arrives with Andúril, reforged from the shards of Narsil, Elendil’s sword, for Aragorn, who then decides to go summon those who betrayed Isuldur long ago and remain since then as cursed dead men. For this I would have preferred it to be adapted like in the books with one difference: in the book, the other Dúnedain and Elrond’s two sons join Aragorn to make that journey, and I would have liked it if the same happened here but with Arwen with them and for her to give Aragorn the reforged sword and fight alongside him (curiously, there is recorded footage of Arwen fighting in Helm’s Deep; pity they did not change when she joined Aragorn instead of making it not happen).

For this battle, the forces of good know they are greatly disadvantaged, but they decide to fight to the dead even if they do not see how they can win.

On the other hand, Frodo and Sam are lead by the treacherous Gollum-Smeagol to a pass where a giant spider will try to eat them. Gollum gets Frodo to abandon Sam, later Frodo gets rid of Gollum but gets stabbed and poisoned by the spider, and it’s the returned Sam who beats it, and they make it, finally, inside Mordor… to find out that there is a multitude of orcs between them and Mount of Doom.

But the battle of Minas Tirith has been won with the help of, first, the riders of Rohan and their magnificent charge of cavalry, and afterword by the return of the king, Aragorn, and the army of the dead. So in the aftermath of the battle, Aragorn proposes to march on the black gate of Mordor with whatever forces they have left to draw out Sauron’s armies and give Frodo a chance to reach Mount of Doom, even at the cost of their own death.

On this final statement, the themes of friendship, courage despite the odds against, and loyalty, remain as key factors, and they are in some ways enhanced because everyone knows the end is near, for good or bad. With the music at its peak for the peaks of the movie, the battle scenes are imbued with great speeches to arise the fighters and give them courage, and both primary and the important secondary characters are given their moments to shine and end their storylines satisfactory.

And, as well as in the book, it is of a narrative brilliance that Frodo loses to the Ring, and it happens at the very moment of being inside Mount Doom to throw it into the lava and instead he puts it on a finger (I would have preferred that they kept the whole phrase he says in the book here because it is the same that Bilbo said in the first movie at the moment of deciding whether to live behind the ring to Frodo as planned or not, but the impact of the simple “the ring is mine” is also good), and it is thanks to Gollum-Smeagol (and at this scene there is no way to tell for sure if it’s Gollum or Smeagol acting, as they both want the same by this part of the story) and his fight with Frodo that the Ring in a eucatastrophe (ver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe) finally ends up in the lava. Little difference from the book: in the movie Frodo gets up and fights Gollum to take back the Ring, and it is as a result of that that Gollum falls, still holding the Ring, with Frodo cliffhanging and being pulled up by Sam, whereas in the book Frodo’s failure is even greater ‘cos Gollum falls on his own when he dances out of joy in the semi-bridge of rock and loses his footstep; I liked the movie scene a little more because the other is more “dry” in it’s execution. And so, the hero gives in to the temptation of evil, but ends up triumphantly nonetheless. Next follows the coronation and reunion of Aragorn and Arwen, and the return to home for the rest of the fellowship.

However, Frodo is too spiritually wounded to fully embrace his peaceful life at the Shire, so eventually he embarks in a ship of the elves to their land beyond the sea, with Bilbo, Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel, and the closing scene is for Sam, with his wife and children.

Frodo: 'I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.'
Gandalf: 'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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  • @adalathu(72)· 1446d

    I'll start by saying that for me The Lord of the Rings is the best fantasy saga, both literary and cinematographically speaking. Tolkien seems to me to have been a genius, a pioneer of the fantasy genre, along with his friend and colleague CS Lewis, his works are full of exquisite details, properly handled characters and an impeccable story.

    Going to the subject of Peter Jackson's adaptation I think that, despite not being one hundred percent faithful to the original material, is one of the book adaptations that has left me more satisfied, as you say, its rhythm is perfect for films of this genre, it has the necessary action mixed with moments of great visual beauty, accompanied by a spectacular music, is one of my favorite soundtracks, if not the one I like the most.

    My favorite part of the whole saga, definitely, is the Battle of Helm's Deep, what a way to handle a war, the action is perfectly balanced with heroic moments and camaraderie, how to forget the relationship between Aragorn+Gimli+Legolas, Jackson knew how to adapt it to perfection.

    Unlike you, I didn't love the addition of the elves to the battle, it seemed unnecessary, but I can't deny that seeing the elven army in action was impressive, they portrayed them in such an imposing and beautiful way that I even forgave them for putting them in for no reason. The Two Towers is my favorite book and my favorite movie, since the Ents gain a lot of relevance, they are one of my favorite fantastic creatures and that I can't believe you haven't mentioned.

    I found the ending extraordinarily well handled, the she-spider part felt a bit different, but still quite good, the destruction of the ring was really satisfying and of course Sam seems to me to have no competition as the best character of the movie, if not of the whole saga. The departure of the grey ports was as touching as I remembered it, although I was very sad that they didn't portray the madness of Saruman the multicolored one hundred percent.

    Overall I am very grateful to Peter Jackon for adapting this saga, visually it is beautiful, my dream is to go to New Zealand and see the shire, all because of the way it is portrayed in this movie, the music is the best I have ever heard, it transports you directly to Middle Earth, the performances not to mention, despite being a fantasy saga the actors gave their all with their characters, especially the late Christopher Lee, and without a doubt you can see the respect they had for Tolkien when making them (not so with the Hobbit) the story was so delicately handled that I couldn't ask for more, well maybe only to see Tom Bombadil.

    Thank you so much for sharing your experience with these three great movies, I loved reading you.