Writing is hard. Writing and creating the perfect prologue requires studying the best prologue there ever was.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring opens with a prologue that changed how we think about exposition dumps.
Typically, explaining things to your audience is hard to do in such a short amount of time, but the screenwriters for Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring found clever ways to explain the history of Middle-earth and the rings of power without boring us to tears.
Normally, a prologue is an introductory scene that introduces the audience to the tone, pace, themes, and characters of the story. Unfortunately, many prologues can’t deliver the information needed to be told in a way that is exciting or interesting. Pentex Productions points out how The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring stands over the rest, using language inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel of the same name to perfect its storytelling and worldbuilding.
Check out Pentex Productions’ full breakdown of the prologue below:
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
