Lord
Of The Rings: Midgets Among Men
Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
is an epic fantasy movie with animation is almost every scene. The biggest example of this throughout the
movie is the height of each character.
Animation is used to make actors look different heights when in reality
they are the same. Another example of
this is the scene when Legolas climbs the Oliphants, which are massive
elephants about 50 times the normal height, and kills all the people riding as
well as the Oliphant itself. This animation
was poorly done. The elephants did not
look real and the scene when Legolas climbed up its leg looked to be
unrealistic as well. One of these
examples enhances the movie, and the other hinders it.
In Lord Of The Rings, Hobbits are 3 foot 6 inches tall; dwarfs are 4
foot 6 inches tall; and the men are average human height at 5 foot 6 inches. This immediately intrigues me because I know
in real life these actors are all the same height. The difference is created so well that there
is no visual tell that it is not real. When an “argument makes a
plausible claim and offers good reasons for you to believe it” logos is
established (107). This realism is the
basis for the argument, because if the animation is done poorly, then there is
no argument; the movie is terrible. By
the animation being done right, more people want to see this epic movie. This movie won an Oscar. That right there has enough Ethos to say that
the animation regarding the height of the characters enhanced the movie.
Oliphants
are larger than life elephants. They are
used as a use of transportation by evil men in one of the fighting scenes in
this movie. They are unbelievable in
many ways, one of which being that there is hundreds of arrows in its
hide. Elephant hide is very strong, but
I don’t believe that it is that strong.
Legolas seamlessly climbs up the leg of the Oliphant, using the arrows
to get up. The way his body is perceived
to be weightless looks computer animated.
The only Logos that can be found in this scene is that the Oliphants
look similar to elephants, but even then they are 50 times larger and seem
nearly impossible to take down. According
to Lunsford, “people usually prefer arguments based on facts and testimony to
those grounded in reasoning alone”(73).
These animals may resemble a real life creature, but in the movie they
are way too large to be believable, and the animation behind creating these
Oliphants was done very poorly and takes away from the Logos of the movie. Because of this the movie is hindered from
this example of animation.
Because
the first example I gave is more prevalent throughout the entire movie, I am
giving this movie three pickles. The way
the characters were perceived to look different heights was done very well and
created Logos for the movie. The reason
it did not get more was because the animation used to create the Oliphants was
done poorly, and the scene where Legolas magically climbs this creature looks beyond
fake.
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