The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - 1920s Silent Film

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - 1920s Silent Film
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[@veesivor632]

I guess my love of silent film has been rekindled.

[@TheDecafec4]

😂

[@mr.oconnor1423]

Aragorn spitting out Eowyn's soup should have come right after the card saying "In the Land of Rohan".

[@HungryCats70]

Is THAT what was going on? I thought he was slurping up some disgusting substance. Same thing, I guess?

[@bentonmarcum8924]

​@@HungryCats70Eowyn was not known for her cooking skills. Even the Nazgul feared her cooking.

[@theparalexview785]

I AM NO CHEF ‼️

[@IanBourneMusic]

That Gollum was awesome. And unhinged

[@THE-X-Force]

I forgot that I subbed to this channel. Imagine my disappointment finding out this wasn't a real film. Yes yes .. before you say it .. I am dain bramaged.

[@justinklenk]

Yoo tooh, huh? 😢

[@yp8152]

Lol

[@rickvandijk]

It is a real movie: check 1924’s Die Nibelungen, a two-part fantasy film by legendary German director Fritz Lang: magic, strange creatures, dragons and epic battles. Trailer and movies can be found on YT.

[@justinklenk]

@@rickvandijk Yeah but that was something unrelated - Tolkien hadn't even written this til decades later. 👍

[@THE-X-Force]

@@rickvandijk Very cool .. thank you! ☮

[@MedalionDS9]

1:01 wtf is happening here lol

[@geegurl25]

My exact words seeing this!!

[@justinklenk]

You're totally just peaking, man - that's a straightforward shot of Keanu Reeves at a drinking fountain. 👍

[@abandonedfilms]

He's meant to be spitting out Eowyn's stew

[@sakhalnakhash1123]

You can't unsee it.

[@CaptainPositron]

@@abandonedfilms It must be worse than we thought.

[@leonardoyramm1856]

"The journey is far from over " Indeed. AI has a really long path ahead and I'm excited to see more.

[@jm7804]

You do this better than anyone else. I wanted you to do some silent film versions for a long time. Love this. If you do a Return of the King trailer please use Errol Flynn as Legolas and either Lillian Gish or Joan Crawford as Galadriel. Can't wait to see it.

[@MicahMicahel]

yeah... I've been waiting for silent films.... the 50s ones are kind of boring.. not different enough.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

The visuals are brilliant. The music is far too JAUNTY!!! The 1920s DID actually have other music apart from jaunty jazz, you know!

[@daniels.os.]

Exactly. I commented the same. Thanks for pointing this out.

[@davidbivens5375]

I think the music is super hip! If that’s AI I am gonna be scared

[@abandonedfilms]

The music is literally made with AI lol. For the other videos people say: "It's too serious, too slow, too fast, too fake, etc" if you want to write better copyright free music then please let me know I'd love to use it without paying you a fortune to do so :)

[@okalosomylos780]

​@@abandonedfilms Can't the AI be steered towards creating something similar to Wagner, Stravinsky, Sibelius etc? This is probably what NI would have used for a silent film like this one back in the 1920s, not *Ragtime* as if it were _The Sting_

[@MindTrickedX24]

The stew... man, oh man.... 😆😆😆😆

[@AlfredFJones1776]

Ghost Rider - 1950’s Super Panavision 70.

[@tesneemnusayr5872]

Good work. I wish the music fitted the story/scenes.

[@triggerfingerstudios]

I think that’s the point. Silent movie music didn’t necessarily do that.

[@rasmodeus1]

Gollum stood out big time, that was awesome. The armies walking on the wall was well done too.

[@Mansini77]

Chris Kattan as Frodo and Nick Nolte as Sam.

[@justinklenk]

Nailed it!

[@jimmyr204]

The music is hilarious!

[@marcusaurelius5149]

Olde Timey

[@Liofa73]

Yeah doesn't quite fit the mood.

[@daniels.os.]

Yeh. Terrible choice. Considering there was epic orchestration for this kind of films, already.

[@davidbivens5375]

They used to have piano players behind the curtains playing silent movies. I think it’s a perfect choice.

[@abandonedfilms]

@@daniels.os. You've haven't seen many silent films have you? Also it's AI music, if you can do better I'd love to use that instead.

[@andromedaspark2241]

Oh my...can you just transplant your mini-movies into my brain so I can have fantastical daydreams all the time, please? It's a small request. Thanks. This is art. Usually can't say that about AI, like at all, but with some of these films the potential as a creative tool is clear. Well done.

[@ChartreuseDan]

This was absolutely not on my bingo card 😂

[@FrankiePacino]

that helms deep looks even more epic and grand

[@johngrey5806]

We should send this film to outer space in case aliens find it so they would think we're really weird.

[@kevinedw2002]

Gollum looked awesome!

[@Kilo__Bravo]

LOLOL @1:00 Aragon throwing up her strew.

[@iGame3D]

Just the way I remember it!

[@YnEoS10]

Prestige silent films could be played in big cinemas with full orchestra accompaniment you know…

[@wads_o_hair]

AI Wormtongue is less creepy than real Wormtongue. All hail Brad Dourif!

[@cabmangray1423]

Lon Chaney as Gollum. Another masterful make-up job.

[@raedwulf61]

Well, this is different! Nice. And Eowyn... and her soup!

[@the1ucidone]

It's just so entertaining.

[@bentonmarcum8924]

Wow amazing Hollywood made a lord of the rings movie before it was written

[@marciebulsaraorcutt]

I WISH this was a whole full-length film!

[@GamingforGrace]

This was so awesome

[@jayyates1676]

They actually would have used organ music for this back then.

[@Agg1E91]

LotR trailer set to Ragtime-esque music track is...interesting. Probably slayed it though when it was released back in the 20s! My, how technology and SFX have changed!

[@j.r.r.toking]

Gollum and Treebeard look awesome.

[@gapperx9068]

Frodo & Sam look like Jeff Bridges and Jim Carrey from Dumb n Dumber.

[@okalosomylos780]

Just as long as it's a "Jeff"

[@basedcommodore]

Wow, very nice

[@happyandblessed5640]

Quirky and simply spectacular! 😅😅😅❤❤❤

[@KennyBFunky]

The piano should have been more dramatic, but overall it was great. Nobody does this stuff better than Abandoned Films!

[@sweiland75]

1:02 Aragorn tastes Eowyn's stew.

[@smertrusne3156]

Looks more like barfing, lol.

[@Poisonedblade]

Figured the 1 dislike would be from Grima Wormtongue.

[@TheInselaffen]

1:27 is a crazy fusion of Bernard Hill and Karl Urban.

[@davidbivens5375]

That piano music is so hip! Is that AI too? It’s like right but wrong. I really really like it! It’s like James P. Johnson but misfiring with some Monkisms.

[@theparalexview785]

I see Eowyn's stew really hit the spot 1:00

[@Matteblak]

Somehow I feel like this is closer to what the Tolkien family envisioned the films to look like

[@TexasTimeLord]

This is more frightening than the actual novel

[@jaredrobinson7071]

That was good.

[@emmapeel8163]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Tedakin]

Should have made it move really fast like those old movies did.

[@martinosullivan2828]

Soooooooooooooooooooooo good! No, GREAT!

[@tmntj11]

1:01 = What the hell? 🤨

[@lawrencefrost9063]

1:00 That's vile

[@ArcherTron]

jajajaj el Arargon con la sopa asquerosa 😁😁😁

[@ANDROLOMA]

This is how long Jackson's franchise should have lasted, sans the superlatives.

[@Thomass42]

I want to see the complete movie. Looks far better than rings of power.

[@BastarB]

Whats missing is the projector screen shake, otherwise perfect:)

[@antoniopacelli]

When AI will stop Sidestepping maybe the world will return Moving Forward

[@bloghoarder]

🔇My favourite character was Shhhhmeagol.

[@crankitup86]

Try doing some horror - nightmare on elm street etc I’d love to see what you’d come up with.

[@rokker101]

great CGI take on a 1020's style film!

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

I hope Sam has a good hair day one day.

[@aevenova9780]

Ai getting spooky good....

[@tonitrabajo1385]

Joder...que wapooo😮

[@Nellyontheland]

Brilliant. 😂 but you missed a trick. Old movies were very much face to face dialogue scenes. ... and they were faster paced.

[@spockofdune8657]

do Charlie Chaplin in Star Wars

[@flymacseamus3474]

That doesn't quite work for 1920s, you should have fast jittery motion and a lot of cuts -- this is nice-looking but way too smooth and slow-mo

[@jaysmall8780]

The Stew!!!

[@godzillabass]

i don’t think a silent film would have been all in slow motion. they’re usually sped up…

[@andreshernandez1180]

Can you make it so that instead of everything being in slow motion it’s actually faster than usual as silent movies usually are?

[@tonydanhs2371]

Give us rambo in both panavision and black and white silent.

[@BrianNatonski-wt3mv]

THE RAGTIME MUSIC TOPS IT!!!

[@lynnlytton8244]

The book wasn’t written until the 1950s. Interesting project though.

[@KethosViewpoints]

Has anyone else made the connection that Wes Anderson has been using AI since 2001?

[@PaladinLevi]

Wouldn't it be weird if George Lucas saw this and that's why he went back in time and made Star Trek?

[@thehapagirl92]

This would be cool if it was real

[@rancidiot]

Please do Battlestar Galactica next

[@abandonedfilms]

1920s, 1940s film noir or 1950s?

[@nardo218]

isengard isengard they're taking the hobbits to isengard

[@CarlosMartinez-is1xz]

20 days without uploading video, what happened to them?

[@justinklenk]

He was "going silent"!! 😅 Apparently.

[@joshlovescotch]

@abandoned films i want 50s cowboy bebop trailer 👍🏻

[@retrochronicle]

1:02 😂

[@johnathan6489]

You know, just because its a silent film doesnt mean it has to have a jazz piano soundtrack.

[@gavinwigg8057]

Awwww..... You should've sped up the AI vids to like 4x! 😂

[@jonliddell9040]

Yes🙂

[@abandonedfilms]

Would've been 4x shorter then.

[@guntram5]

what kind of software is needed for this?

[@SanoyNimbus]

So ... a 1920 film of a book written 1937-1949 and published 1950? Cool ...

[@BeeDub57]

1:01 WTF?

[@brentblake8306]

Very nice, that shimmery contrast ! I'm with lots of others with the music, strings,oboes, kettle drums on the battle scenes! Well done, thank you for sharing your creativity!

[@abandonedfilms]

Cool, compose it for me and I'll use it!

[@ice_cream_man842]

Слишком мало макияжа на лицах + актёры не переигрывают ...я разочарован

[@mateosimon4237]

It hadnt been written yet

[@rabe777]

Witcher in 1950s

[@user-ih8fw7bu5p]

❤😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉😢😮😅

[@dragunov8007]

1:01 Wtf?😂

[@jaywilliams8386]

I don't think so. Silent movies were choppy with fast looking exaggerated action.

[@Dyadyapetya]

Am I the only one scared?

[@RoverIAC]

Amazing work yet these AI videos feels so soulless.

[@daniels.os.]

Great edition as always... TERRIBLE music choice. You could have used some great orchestration music from, like Wagner type... Not this silly Chaplinesque stuff.

[@MysticWolf1223]

If it's a silent film then why is music playing? 🤷

[@cabmangray1423]

Because silent movies used music.

[@MysticWolf1223]

@@cabmangray1423 so they aren't really silent then, are they? This is false advertising. I want my money back!

[@kirk902]

I expect that Alito and Thomas looked at historic legal precedent during the Jurassic Age rather than consider reality.

[@chriskritik2570]

Soundtrack and video don't match in my opinion

[@willgeo2215]

Music didn't go well with this. Didn't feel epic.

[@thomassmith6232]

Totally inappropriate music.

[@hirschlord341]

😂😂

[@jonliddell9040]

Sorry to be a downer, but most silent films were hand cranked and averaged out at 18 fps, hence they appear fast at 24 fps as of 1930. The slo mo wibbly-wobbly AI thing, while great for the colour grading of 1950's epics, really doesn't work in the silent film context. Check out some restored classics via the Criterion Collection (admittedly synced to modern sensibilities). I find your work compelling, but you're not watching what you try to re create in enough detail.

[@justinklenk]

You and me both need to get laid, bro. (Preferably not with each other, though.) 👍

[@channelbrookes]

Also, I found that the camera is panning and dollying far too much for films of the period. I'm not saying it didn't happen but cameras were generally locked off

[@raedwulf61]

Make one that's better.

[@rickvandijk]

My original reaction got removed it seems, but this movie exists: Check 1924’s Die Nibelungen, a two-part fantasy epic by legendary German director Fritz Lang, featuring magic, strange creatures, dragons and massive battles. It’s based on the 12th century poem, which was also influential on Tolkien’s work. The trailer and movie can be found on YT.

[@DanielRobinsongoodphx]

🤦🏻

[@julioalbertoherrera1339]

German expressionism...