Sentences with phrase «ornamented war elephant»

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The best moments of The Return of the King are those where Jackson's mad imagination runs riot: an Uruk - hai captain that looks like Charles Laughton's hunchback; a battlefield amuck with war elephants («mumaks» in the vernacular) that recalls the desperation of the Hoth sequence of The Empire Strikes Back (itself a landmark of special effects for its time); and a glimpse at some of the ornaments of spider Shelob's lair and various orcan armor that pings off Robert A. Burns's delirious set design for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.