Sweded Lord of the Rings

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 26, 2008 11:09 PM | permalink

This sweded cut of the Lord of the Rings is so elaborate and well-wrought that it almost doesn't qualify as sweded -- but the epic luls make up for the high production values. Link

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#1 posted by batangbaler , March 27, 2008 12:39 AM

This sweded flick was directed by Daniel Loyd. I posted this video on my Sweded Blog last January and emailed Daniel for some info about the project. This was his reply:

I'm the director and the writers are Michael Leffler and Michael Shaw, both writer actors for G4TV. We're all based in Los Angeles and we're inspired to do the spoof by the film 'bekind rewind', coming out soon. We tried to make it as good as we could, while working within the limitations of 'what we could make, or find, or cheaply purchase around town'. We tried to get back into the mindset of friends doing this for fun back in school. We spent 3 weeks in preproduction, making costumes and props, scouting locations and finalizing the script. (our script, and planning used the open-source program Celtx, and our project with all the detail is featured on pc.celtx.com). We shot it over a saturday and sunday last december. First shooting in Bronson Canyon, LA. Then moving to a canyon in the Pacific Palisades because we we're kicked out of Bronson! (permits...). Sunday we shot all interiors and Elrond's council at my friend Wendy's house (she was VERY nice to let us take over). Post production was on Final Cut Pro, and took the next three days. Since we posted it on youtube/myspace and facebook, it's done very well and we're incredibly happy with everyone's response!

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#2 posted by phillamb168 , March 27, 2008 7:17 AM

This is absolutely fantastic - the sort of thing I always wanted to do when I was a kid, but because camcorders were expensive, could not.

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#3 posted by Takuan , March 27, 2008 7:28 AM

why is sweding important? Because it points out everything wrong with Hollywood today.

I watched I Am Legend last night. This LOTR just now gave me more entertainment. Why?

Story. STORY. STORY!!!!!

Attention LA: You are all idiots. I don't want people shot in the face, giant plastic tits, big stupid cars etc. ad nauseum.

Story. SLAP! STORY.SLAP! STORY!!!! SLAPSLAPSLAP!!

ahh, why do I even bother....

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#4 posted by MrsBug , March 27, 2008 8:30 AM

LOVED it. Of course, I had to explain what all the noise was to people at work and also the concept of "sweding." My hubby and I saw "Be Kind, Rewind," which gave me some gentle laughs. I enjoyed it.

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#5 posted by Zandr , March 27, 2008 11:15 AM

To me, the definitive sweding is still Raiders: The Adaptation. The film is pushing 20 years old, but is a complete shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark done by a few kids. They were 12 when they started, and it took them 7 years to finish it, so their voices keep changing, etc.

So far as I know, the only way you'll ever see it is at an Indie film festival or somewhere like Alamo Drafthouse. I saw it at SF Indie this year, and it's absolutely brilliant.

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#6 posted by Takuan , March 27, 2008 11:26 AM

The Swede Critic. Can an association be far away?

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#7 posted by my captcha was jerome knight , April 4, 2008 1:03 PM

Lots of people are doing these, me and mine included. I've got a fledgling community started at http://swededfilms.com if you're interested in seeing many more sweded movies.