#haha sorry that got weird it’s 5am and im remembering I haven’t watched any movies in a few months

[rowanisawriter]

(Hope I’m not being annoying lol) okay. Let’s hear it. I need to know what you think of Lord of the Rings

oh man….. it’s hard to articulate just what an effect the movies had on me as a kid. i recently rewatched the return of the king and almost choked at the pippin singing scene, i was so shocked at my reaction lol. there is emotion in this series that just doesn’t get across in anything modern (thinking marvel now) and even reading the books didn’t move me as much as the movies did, the perfect harmony of actors and costumes and music and everything together, it was a once in a lifetime experience and i don’t know if something like that will ever happen again

when i look back at the way they handled emotion across the series it explains a lot of how i write now, with this focus on feelings, on showing them. if you try to pull up a memory of any one scene in any of the movies you will probably remember characters crying, or embracing, or feeling something that you can see and feel because of that magical combination of acting and good writing and connection idk. it was a miracle to have a big budget and mainstream blockbuster movie like fellowship sit on the floor with you bleeding out while another man kissed your forehead and made you a promise. think about the last time you watched a movie that big and felt something like how you felt when you saw sam jump into the water after frodo at the end of fellowship. i watch things now, movies made at the same scale as this series but made by a company for the purpose of making money, and i don’t feel anything