Introduction to The Return of the King

The brief introduction of The Return of the King records the unique experience of Nicholas III's visit in a documentary way.

It tells the story of King Nicholas III of Belgium's visit to Turkey. The queen hired documentary director Duncan to accompany her, hoping to change the dull image of the king. However, this seemingly insignificant foreign affairs activity has become an unexpected adventure of the group. During the foreign affairs visit, the Walloon region of Belgium suddenly declared independence, and the king and his party immediately decided to return to China. Unexpectedly, the solar storm over Turkey prevented the national flight from taking off.

The king, who was in a hurry, decided to take risks and set foot in the Balkans, known as the "European powder keg", and began a difficult journey home. The troubles that followed, the witty dialogue, and the king who gradually "let himself go" during the journey were all recorded by Duncan's lens and made into a bold, humorous and unique "documentary". This film is very interesting because it is grafted with absurd comedy types in documentary style.

Shooting skills of simulated documentary

In documentaries, historical pictures or interviews with people are often used to discuss past events, or to track the parties involved in the events in the form of real movies.

The most common shooting technique of this kind of film is posing. The so-called posing is the process that the photographer creates a certain environment, designs a certain plot, lets the photographer perform and finally shoots according to his own ideas. In this process, photographers often act as directors. Obviously, posing photos often have better lighting, composition, more beautiful background, more beautiful models and more drama.

Therefore, mockumentary takes the word "pseudo" because it is only made by imitating some characteristics of documentary films, but in fact it belongs to the category of feature films. Like clover files and death videos, they all belong to literature.