The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Sunday 2 November 2014

WHAT NEXT FOR PETER JACKSON AFTER ‘THE HOBBIT’: THE ONE RING AND THE RINGS OF POWER?

What next for Peter Jackson after ‘The Hobbit’?

The One Ring and the Rings of Power?

After ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ trilogies (TLOTR & TH), the One Ring and the Rings are waiting to be narrated on screen.

Also, people would love to see the face of the Dark Lord, Sauron, seen so far as a dark spirit and the ever watchful eye at the top of the Mordor tower.

The J R R Tolkien epics have given Peter Jackson so far over 16 years of meaningful engagement with filmmaking and global fame flew home with it. The introduction of his every bio reads like ‘the film director known for TLOTR and TH trilogies'.

TLOTR trilogies delivered impeccably from 2001 to 2003 were creativity’s high points in filmmaking. And the fantastical fantasy narration was a major financial success as well, year after year. TLOTR movie brought in around $3 Billion in Box Office revenue.


So far, the two instalments in the TH trilogy have been major financial successes as well with earnings of around $2 Billion on Box Office, though running low on the critical appreciation that came with the three movies of TLOTR series culminating in the path-breaking imagery in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’. TROTK was nominated in 11 categories of the Academy Award and won all including the 'Best Picture', the first fantasy film to achieve this scale.

So far, the two TH movie have been visually enthralling and pulling on storytelling but the elements that made TLOTR franchise a class apart are absent. Let's see if Peter Jackson delivers on this front as well with the final instalment, The Hobbit 3 (The Battle of the Five Armies) scheduled to release on December 17.

With this, the cinematic narration of the two most famous works of the J R R Tolkien's legendarium would be complete.

And there comes the question that what next for Peter Jackson after TH3, given the fact the Tolkien legendarium is quite extensive and there are many elements in TLOTR and TH trilogies having enough of storytelling potential to develop in full-length movies and central of them is the story of the 'Rings'.

Hope, Jackson would not have been bugged by the 'fantasy fatigue' after working for so many years delivering fantasies (his another major directorial success of the intervening period, King Kong, was again a fantasy adventure epic).  

Because the story of the One Ring the Rings are to be told on the cinema screen and given his passion for and his run with Tolkien's works, Jackson can deliver again and The Silmarillion is waiting to meet its extensions from TLOTR and TH.  

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com