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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
davem ... I have never heard the BBC broadcasts but will take up your challenge. I have ordered it through Amazon for $45.00 US.
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Best Frodo, best Sam & best Gollum by far. Not to mention an amazing Saruman.
http://www.briansibley.com/Broadcast...GoesEverOn.htm. Of course, you'll never know the thrill of waiting for the episodes to be broadcast over a six month period (originally as 26 half hour episodes on Sunday lunchtimes, re-cut to 13 hour long episodes for re-broadcast). And they retain Tolkien's dialogue for the most part, & many of the songs & poems.
And I note from Sibley's piece:
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The scripting took several months. The completed scripts were then sent to France to be read and approved by the author's son, Christopher Tolkien. His help with the project included recording an audiocassette of the acceptable pronunciation of Middle-earth words and names.
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I must take issue with the statement that the Bakshi film is no worse than the Jackson films. The Bakshi version was handicapped by the lack of the budget that Jackson had - so I concede that to you. But I found fault not with what he was unable to do - but what he did do. Boromir as a viking!!!!! Aragorn looking like some American Indian. The orcs were pretty terrible and the entire rotoscoping technique made much of the film look muddy and without proper detail. His Balrog looked like a monsterish version of the Disney character Goofy. The scene with the Nazgul on Weathertop was terrible with the Nazgul looking beyond bad. Helms Deep was almost like a bad Mad Magazine parody with all these actors hidden under robes and hoods with fangs coming out of their mouths that glowed in the dark.
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Of course the look of the movie is terrible - but that's the point I'm making - Bakshi didn't have the resources Jackson did, & was basically having to invent the look of M-e from scratch. When I compare the money & technology the two directors had I have a softer spot for what Bakshi achieved than what PJ did. I'd seriously like Bakshi to have the same budget as Jackson & see what he made of it. I strongly suspect that if Jackson had been reduced to animation & rotoscoping his version would have been much worse than Bakshi's.