GEOGRAPHY, CINEMA AND IMAGINATION: GEOGRAPHIC SPEECHES IN ‘THE LORD OF RINGS’

Abstract

Geography and Cinema have been dialoguing in recent decades. Nevertheless, the different understandings about cinema and, consequently, the different ways of analyzing it, it is understood that films have their own status, evading the mimetic notion of cinema and recognizing it as producer of meanings and emitters of discourses geographic. Currently, with the return of the imaginary and the reframing of myth, films in the Fantasy genre offer opportunities for interpretation to understand the geographical space and the discourses about it. Based on these assumptions, this article proposes to understand the discourses present in the cinematographic work The Lord of Rings (2001-2003). For this purpose, the interrelations between Geography and Cinema are discussed, emphasizing the concept of geographical character. It is also discussed about narrative and imagination, using authors linked or not to the theory of the imaginary. In addition to the bibliographical survey, this work also used some film elements, such as textual transcriptions of the characters' speeches and cinematographic landscape, to interpret the speeches present in the work. We conclude that The Lord of Rings (2001-2003), when presenting harmonious and submissive relations with earth, enunciates geographic discourses of anti-modernist content in geographical characters.