How The Lord of the Rings Delivers a Perfect Prologue

Video essays often talk about exposition and prologues like they're a bad thing. Unfortunately, they usually are.

So why does the opening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring work so well? How does Peter Jackson deliver such a perfect prologue to the trilogy?

The answers can be found, in part, by comparing the prologue to Jackson's LOTR trilogy with the animated 1978 Lord of the Rings film, directed by Ralph Bakshi.

00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - Writing exposition
07:47 - Using film-making as a language
10:38 - Sharing information at the right time
12:05 - Conclusion

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- Reddit thread mentioned in the video: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/jm75l6/why_does_the_lotr_style_historyexposition_dump/

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