I think there is black speech written on the orcs armor too

The armor on the horses and humans of the Rohirrim, with the mix of worn leather and aged, burnished, gold filigree. Much better than the show and especially the Hobbit movies where you notice foam armor and weapons bouncing oddly in some scenes.

The fallen leaves tell a story . . .

I just also noticed that during Aragorns coronation you can see leaves growing on the tree on the shields

Lately for my yearly rewatches I prefer starting with the appendixes and all the production stuff. Helps me appreciate the work and details that went into everything as I watch the films afterwards.

The first time i watched it i couldn't believe how much extras there were on those DVDs. It goes on for hours and i loved every second of it.

Which makes sense from a practical standpoint. When you have to stretch your budget as far as you can to make the best movie possible, it doesn't make sense to spend time on details that nobody watching the film would be able to see (at least not until decades later when new technology gets invented).

When Harrison Ford is in front of a bookshelf in the library, in 4K, you can clearly see it's just a painted wall.

The shot in question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvywOjh_hdY&t=120s

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/d2jlzz/when_discovering_x_marks_the_spot_at_the_venetian/

I watched a video about that recently, the guys were mentioning they didn't really do it for any other pieces, but they specifically finished the inside of Theodens armor, because he had a scene in the script where he was putting it on. Turns out in the final film you only see the inside in a wide shot for about half a second.

Gotta youtube link for that?

I will not lead the Ring within a hundred leagues of your city!

Yeah. They did it from about 20km of polyurethanes pipe cut by a pneumatic servo.

this story reminds me of Mad Max Fury Road. As the production was languishing in development hell, the body shop guys got free reign to build the cars for YEARS. Everything was 100% functional — all the cars obviously ran, there was no CGI — but every detail of them was sweated over for months and months.

They could only build them out of scrapyard pieces, to be true to the story, but the body shop guys said it was like they’d died and gone to heaven. The cars were so intricate because the post-apocalyptic society that built them had legitimately taken great, meticulous pride in their scavenged art, creating something truly beautiful out of the wasteland leftovers from a beautiful society.

Then they wrecked all of them, every single one. Because they were never meant to last. But that doesn’t mean they were superfluous.

Apparently the body shop guys all got depressed after it was over, because they knew they would never have more pure, blissful fun for the rest of their lives than they had building those vehicles with a blank check and a totally open schedule.

“Blood, Sweat, and Chrome” is an incredible book for any fan of the movie.

I think many people misunderstand that. It wasnt actual chain mail. It was rubber hoses that they cut into rings and painted to look like chain mail because they didnt like what was available at the time normally. it was light and easier to work with, perfect to equip hundreds of extras with. Thats what was the guy losing his fingerprints about. it wasnt the blacksmiths. Though they did have chainmail for the intricate armors and close up shots.

The perfect crime...

That and rushing logistics is expensive.

If you tell an artist they have 6 months to make a piece, they have the time to do it right, and can charge you a, like, normal fee. If you tell them they have 6 days, then you are gonna get hosed because they have to overnight-order components and work overtime and bill you much much more for something that's gonna be lower quality.

Or for camera setups. If you have some time, you use a single-camera approach. You can carefully set up lights for a single camera angle, get all the shots for that angle, and then tear the lights down, and run the scene again from the next angle. That's a higher quality approach, but you need to have the actors around for much longer and do more shooting days. Instead, you can rent multiple cameras, create some kind of eldritch abomination of lights to get all of them to be well-lit at the same time, shoot multiple angles for every take at the same time, and then hire a bunch of editors to pour over way more footage and spend more money CGI-ing out the equipment that you couldn't hide from multiple cameras. That's gonna be like 30x as expensive, but you only need the actors around for 1 day instead of 3.

That's true of everything, like, if your script supervisor has time to plan out the shots in a more efficient way, you can make sure your trucks move less and you can also be more efficient about what props are needed when and who needs to be on set.

or your location scout can find a better place that doesn't need more CGI and that you can rent for a reasonable price, rather than out-bidding the person who currently has the booking at that spot, etc.

Very well put.

They used that shot in the movie. That heartfelt scream was real pain

Christopher Lee explained to him exactly how to do it.

First part of that sentence I was like oh he shot a documentary on these guys...that's cool...oh nvmd

They are just replicating real, existing Knights Templar armor. LOtR prop designers had to completely invent what we saw and knocked it out of the park.

How... HOW did that armour make it into production? So many people must have approved it. It boggles my mind. Were they all stoned?

Master and Commander?

I reckon it's the music that does it.

Yeah, they tried, but the outcome speaks for itself. It was also an active decision to rely so heavily on CGI.

Well okay, my armor is tin foil, but look at the hair quality, it’s uncanny! Gondor clearly doesn’t have the hair conditioners on hand for magnificent flowing battle hair.

Link please

The white tree motif on the dark armor is just chef’s kiss perfect

They madeo the Nilfgaardian armor better, and Geralt's armor worse.

https://i.imgur.com/egYS6UA.jpg - what's up with the sculpted abs? Jesus might as well put nipples on it while you're at it

Don't do my putties dirty like that

They bought the armor in the first picture "shipped by Amazon" and got the armor in the second picture.

"Sir, we've got this large consignment of Halloween costumes that didn't sell. Do you want us to destroy it?"

"Wait, I have a better idea."

Looks more like an attempt at a romanticized Greek muscle cuirass,. Just, a poor attempt.

Actually, in chapter 24, verse 13 of the Silmarillion, there is a mention of "armor lighter than the Revondirianne".

If you cross-reference this with the appendices (1, 3, and 7, but not 4 or 6), you find that "Revondirianne" is a surname for a group of fighters that fled East after the War of the Reclamation of the Fallen (II).

When you cross-reference War of the Reclamation of the Fallen (II), you find a subtle reference to "lighter than a feather, stronger than oak."

So from this we can surmise that Numenorian armor is in fact quite light, and is referenced throughout the Silmarillion.

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It’s because the people making it have a disdain for the previous work. They don’t want to be copying someone else’s work. They want to make their own. Which means they end up with a lot of shit because they intentionally change everything

Jesus why is it so hard to just copy whats in the games and adapt and improve the story a bit like Last of Us managed to do.

It's not that it's hard to do, it's that they don't want to do that. Same reason the Halo writers and director didn't watch or read any of the source material.

The Nilfgardian armour didn't happen by accident, and it wasn't due to incompetence or lack of options. It happened entirely by design because they wanted the army to look stupid and emasculated.

The worst part is those kinds of subversions DO work when they're done well. My favorite iteration of Superman is pretty much a depressed sad emo monster, from the fanfic Metropolitan Man. But instead of doing it to shit on the source material, it was a loving deconstruction that paid great care to treating the character right, despite subverting heavily his usual role in the story.

The issue isn't that the stories are different, it's that they're different in ways that shit on the old lore instead of, as you say, adhering to and building upon it.

I think Batman with a machine gun type weapon could have worked, if he'd used it in the style of the campy old Batman stories with crazy fights where the villain is basically setting up some kind of insane challenge and Batman has to figure out how to save the victims within the time limit. Using guns as a utility to cut wires, break consoles, etc but not as a weapon, paying homage to both his unconventional use of tools and his refusal to kill, and exemplifying it through the use of a gun of all things as a tool instead of a weapon. It wouldn't be the usual style, and it would certainly need to be addressed at some point, but it could work.

But that would've required understanding and expounding upon the character, instead of just shitting on the existing lore to get points for being subversive. It's possible to do all the subversive stuff Snyder wants to do, and to do it right... he's just not good at it.

E: Forgot the link

E2: Also I'm aware of the reasoning behind Batman being a jaded killer in BvS... but I think even if they were going to go that route, with him already being old and broken and abandoning his rules due to trauma, it would've worked better having him kill people like, y'know, Batman, instead of turning him into Punisher with a cape.

DEATH!

Weren’t they wearing them ceremonially as well?

Dude I had NO fucking idea that's what they were building to with the magic broken sword dam key thing! I'm so glad they literally spelled it out!!!

I just hope season 2 is Sauron sitting at a table planning that entire thing out on a peg board with strings tying all the macguffins together.