Il film del "Signore degli Anelli" di Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi's 1978 adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" is one of those films that forever divides: visionary masterpiece or total disaster? It's a very strange, courageous, and at times embarrassing animated adaptation, born in the chaos of the 1970s, with a shoestring budget and a crazy technical choice: rotoscope, which transforms every scene into a blend of animation, real actors, and psychedelic atmospheres. Let's analyze what works and what doesn't: the brilliant insights (the prologue, the Nazgûl, Boromir's death), the cuts that make the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with Tolkien's novel, the often "wrong" characters (and a Sam reduced to a caricature), and above all the absurd "non-ending" that condemned the film to remain incomplete. But the real point is another: Bakshi opened a door, and even Peter Jackson owes something to this imperfect experiment.