Sunday, 9 September 2012

Fantasy/ Epic Conventions

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a classic fantasy epic that displays many conventions ascociated with the genre. Conventions such as a grand battle, which was preluded by several samll battles, the concept of "Sword and Sorcery", and a range of near human protagonists and antagonists. In fantasy films there will always be a dark menace that needs to be stopped less there be darkness ruling the world. At the films primary battle scene which is viewed in snippets in the trailer, the good guys will be losing the majority of the time, until the very last few moments when an unusual amount of reinforcements arrive extremely quickly. There will be characters so powerful they gain time to say a quote before cutting to several fast shots of the aforementioned battle.

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