2011
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12 hours ago · Its self-contained nature makes it easy to cut out (which director Peter Jackson did, as did director Ralph Bakshi with his animated adaptation back in the 1970s). It's an easy move, and Tolkien ...
5 days ago · In Ralph Bakshi's animated The Lord of the Rings film, Saruman -- or Aruman, as characters sometimes called him-- did not wear a white or a multicolored robe but a red one. Gandalf still referred to him as Saruman the White, implying that the Wizards' titles did not necessarily correlate with their robe colors in Bakshi's version of the story.
3 days ago · Decades before Peter Jackson’s live-action The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ralph Bakshi rendered the epic in striking animation.
1 day ago · Young film fans likely first think of Ralph Bakshi and his The Lord of the Rings movie. While time-consuming, this process allowed for far more lifelike and fluid movement in animation than traditional hand-drawn cells. In 2024, what A Scanner Darkly accomplishes is less impressive than when it was first released.
3 days ago · The first movie adapted from Tolkien's books was the 1978 animated The Lord Of The Rings, directed by Ralph Bakshi. That was followed in 1980 by a Rankin-Bass animated adaptation of The Return of the King. Jackson's LOTR trilogy then kicked off in the early 2000s.
- Jack Walters
1 day ago · Ralph Bakshi, who made an animated film based on the first half of the trilogy, didn't watch the films, but was told that Jackson's film was derivative of his. Ahead of the films' release, he said he did not "understand it" but that he does "wish it to be a good movie."
2 days ago · On this episode of The Gala Show, Gala and her dad Roger Avary hang out to celebrate Independence Day! Roger's topic: independence and independent filmmaking. Roger and Gala start off by chatting about what 4th of July movies they could have discussed before jumping in to a conversation on independent filmmaker Ralph Bakshi — but first, a question about what food Roger loves to eat on Independence Day.
