Comment LOTR simple plot (Score 1) 397
People frequently confuse plot for action. And in today's shootout/car-chase/everything-that-crashes-explode s-in-a-brilliant-gas-fueled-explosion heavy films people think that action is composed mainly of these three events.
Plot is what happens and action is how it happens. The plot of LOTR is pretty simple: Frodo must get rid of an evil ring. But how this happens is done very imaginatively, so the action is done well. Action is not just the sword battles.
Also plot is not background. The plot of LOTR is not about a hobbit named Frodo who lives in a place called the Shire in Middle Earth and whose unlce Bilbo stole a powerful ring from a creature named Gollum, etc. That's background.
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Plot is what happens and action is how it happens. The plot of LOTR is pretty simple: Frodo must get rid of an evil ring. But how this happens is done very imaginatively, so the action is done well. Action is not just the sword battles.
Also plot is not background. The plot of LOTR is not about a hobbit named Frodo who lives in a place called the Shire in Middle Earth and whose unlce Bilbo stole a powerful ring from a creature named Gollum, etc. That's background.
The formula for box office success was discovered long ago. Check out "How to Write Screenplays that Sell" by Michael Hague.
