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• Title: Through a Dark Lens: Jackson's Lord of the Rings As Abject Horror.
• Author : Mythlore
• Release Date : January 22, 2007
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 168 KB

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THERE is no doubt that Peter Jackson makes excellent horror films. Linda Badley says in Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic, "Jackson is one of several talented young directors who found in splatter and grotesque fantasy the elements of a distinctive expressionistic style" (156). Since he is primarily known as a horror director, it is interesting that he chose to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to the screen. Jackson's splatter movie background does not blend well with Tolkien's fantasy ... or does it? When we look at Jackson's Lord of the Rings as a horror movie, as opposed to a fantasy film, we realize it is his grotesque horror we delight in, instead of ethereal fantasy. Certain rules or cliches characterize the horror film. While many of these elements exist in Tolkien's fiction, Jackson focuses on the traits that mark his Lord of the Rings as horror in the explicit detail of his camera work--for example, the close-ups Jackson uses for the slimy birth of an Uruk-hai or the loving way his camera strokes Gollum's emaciated body. Jackson's obsessive love of the grotesque paints his Lord of the Rings films as horror.

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