Andrew salutes the Appendices' detail…
It was in 2003 that I first became aware of their existence.
When carrying the equipment back to the hall wardens room I discovered two things:
1.
The hall wardens could walk down the fire escape onto the roof above the entrance and have barbeques.
There were not only two discs for the film, there were two discs for the extras.
Fried things, a pint of tea and a documentary about horses.
Without them, I would have nothing to base that assumption on.
Less flippantly, its a story of how films get made and howLord Of The Ringshappened.
Jonathan Rhys-Davies habit of referring to Orlando Bloom as The Elf is also colossally endearing.
There are other heroes who emerge from these discs.
He also states that the changes to the story Jackson, Boyens and Walsh made are mainly improvements.
It passed the time, but turned out to be surprisingly useful).
To quote the man himself:
People keep saying to me: Why bother?
Why go to so much trouble?
We didnt put the detail there for details sake, but because it rationalised out a theoretical culture.
It isnt just Taylor who went into that level of detail.
For the sound effect of two-tonne boulders impacting, they dropped a two-tonne weight onto some concealed microphones.
Three thousand people worked on those films, yet even these features are not the whole story.
Thats worth considering the next time youre waiting for a post-credits sequence to happen.
