tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post427304583189394483..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: "...a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises!"Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-59293953817445135452011-10-13T10:42:31.628+02:002011-10-13T10:42:31.628+02:00Me too. Amazing.
In fact, I think I'm going ...Me too. Amazing. <br /><br />In fact, I think I'm going to watch it again...hjwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-83846023121800260492011-10-12T20:46:35.701+02:002011-10-12T20:46:35.701+02:00The Charge of the Rohirrim is my favorite scene in...The Charge of the Rohirrim is my favorite scene in film. Period.<br /><br />I especially appreciated the way Jackson counterposed the Charge with the doomed sortie of Gondor's cavalry which had taken place earlier.<br /><br />"Doesn't matter how many archers you have this time, Orky...."<br /><br />Jackson also earns points from me for looking back at accounts of mass cavalry charges during the Napoleonic Wars as inspiration.<br /><br />While I have problems with Jackson's handling of some of the material (the Scouring being a gripe of mine, too), by and large he deserves kudos. Even stuff I didn't like he usually had a reasoned cinematic explanation for.<br /><br />And he absolutely nailed the Rohirrim--he got the Sons of Eorl in one. I want one of the White Horse banners, in fact.DPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12249117106906577345noreply@blogger.com