LOTR = Typical Action Films?

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by thranduil
I see "some" of your points reasonable. Basically Bree is like any other busy city. Bums, trash, its all there, the good and the bad.

Too bad jackson went with ONLY the bad. Also - Bree was a village - not a city. Of course it had it's bad sections - but it was a medieval type of village - not a city from the industrial age.

But I still don't see how you would have done it. make it pleasant, but riders everywhere, causing the most psychological terror.

Where did I say to put the riders anywhere?There were NO riders visible - it was just the SENSE of riders. It was the desolation of the street - it was that fact of being in the unknown. That is what built the tension up in the book. There were no riders behind every corner - a good director wouldn't have to show riders to bring across the tension to the audience or to show what Sam was thinking.

I just don't see it happening on screen. I encourage you to try and film such a scenario. No truly, I have done many LOTR scenes myself. I'm interested if you could transfer that. I understand if you dont want to try, to busy, I know its not easy. But seriously i would really like to see that.

There have been many films that have used similar scenes - that have generated psychological terror - when really there was no evil there. I don't see why you think it is so impossible - unless you have never seen any movies other than action movies. Action movies don't go for psychological elements - they go for the cheap easy way out like Jackson took.