So, I was looking through the 2005 edition of the Guinness book of world records and on pages 173, 176, and 179 I found (in my opinion) the greatest trilogy ever making rather impressive records.
Let's start with the most well known. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King jumped into the record books with accepting 11 American Academy Awards. The awards were for Best Picture, Best Director, Art Direction, Costume Design, Visual Effects, Sound, Editing, Makeup, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, Original Score, and Original Song. I'm sure you know that they had 11 but maybe you couldn't remember what they were. Well, there you go. Oh, and Titanic and Ben-Hur are right there with the lord. I just want to know why nobody thought it better to put a picture of Ben-Hur on since it's the first to accomplish the feat. Oh well. Anyways, next record...
Also, well known... TLOR:ROTK had the fastest $1 billion box office gross. Don't you think that would be enough... being the fastest? Well, actually it's only the second movie to bring in more than $1 billion. The first was Titanic. Go figure! All night, during the Ceremony everyone continued to compare the two movies. It took the rings 9 weeks and 4 days to accomplish this. Titanic took 11 weeks. The movie took $1,005,380,412 in ticket sales by Feb. 23, 2004.
Alright, not too shaby so far, is it? Well, this next one is my favorite record. Maybe you actually didn't know this one. If you did then I'm sorry I haven't said anything of importance.
Gollum... you know where I'm going with this now don't you? WETA Digital is the company that brought life to Gollum by creating 250 facial expressions and 300 moving muscles. HIs movements were based on those of Andy Serkis, from the UK. Andy wore a unitard body stocking to facilitate the computer generated images that would be added later. He did this for every scene in which the ring worshiping little man appeared in the movie.
Ok. Just because I feel like this hasn't accomplished anything that I wanted (introduce people to interesting facts about stuff I enjoy) I'll try one last time to find something "new"...
The largest yoga class ever held contained6,315 at Pandit Ravishankar Shukla Stadium, Jabalpur, India, on February 13, 2003.
Capt. over and out!