![]() ![]() There’s a serenity to Ian’s face… an impossible calm and resolute ease and anticipation to beginning that final adventure that puts Pippin at peace and calm. ![]() I remember Ian McKellen’s Gandalf telling Billy Boyd’s Pippin about the adventure beyond death amidst a battle to decide it all. There truly is no film to compare to RETURN OF THE KING.įor all it’s visual effects wizardry, the scenes and the moments that linger with me are not those moments. I am sitting here trying to go over the history of epics in my mind to remember one that juggled so many characters and gave us so much to care for and I’m coming up empty. ![]() However, unlike INTOLERANCE, this film takes the care to tell intimate… almost private adventures and stories with all the care, love and passion that you could ever hope for. One with spectacle and size so immense that as you watched it, you knew… you felt the screen busting at the seams to hold it all. What was it like in 1916 to see a film on that scale? Beside all the two-reelers and three-reelers and four-reelers to see a true epic. It towers over the other so-called epics of the year in a way that one could only imagine it was like when INTOLERANCE was released 87 years ago. This is frankly one of the greatest films ever made. On Tuesday, I’ll see it again, and after that, I imagine I’ll see it 3 more times by the end of the week. I’ve already given 6 hours and 44 minutes of my life over to RETURN OF THE KING, I’ve seen it twice. ![]()
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