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Re: The good, the bad and the ring (WAS: LoTR: The Two "Towers")
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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:16:31 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Allan Bedford writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
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> > > To see the movie, you'd think the party could just fend off the riders
> > > pretty darn easily if they showed up again. To read the book, I get a much
> > > more foreboding impression-- that they could've killed them all if they
> > > wanted to, but erred on the side of caution; probably wondering if they
> > > could overcome Aragorn if he decided for some reason to suddenly wield the
> > > Ring himself. The movie makes me think they were *desperately* trying to get
> > > the Ring, but just couldn't do it because Strider fought viciously. Not that
> > > they more consciously decided to leave and wait.
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> >
> > Yeah, Jackson went for cheap visuals and bad continuity
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> Just curious. Was this a throw-away comment, or did you really find the
> visuals to be that bad? And were there particular continuity errors you
> noticed?
As in he took the cheap route by going for a splashy combat sequence. The
continuity problem is that several wraiths were torched but there they were
in the next sequence riding hell-for-leather for the ford none the worse for
their experience, including their natty Mordor-Threads.
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> After watching hours of the behind-the-scenes stuff, and knowing how they
> did it (especially dealing with issues of scale) I'm still amazed at how
> good it looks.
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> > - I mean, where do
> > you rent a replacement wraith costume in The Wild after your previous one
> > got burnt to a crisp?
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> Actually, that scene was shot very early on in the schedule. In fact, it
> was Viggo's first day on the set. So it's quite likely that if a costume
> was destroyed, it was planned and accounted for.
No, no, I mean within the actual story. Torching the wraiths would most
likely have the same effect that inundating them had: they would have to
flee back to Mordor shapeless and enfeebled. Even if not, there are no
tailors hanging out in the middle of nowhere (Weathertop virtually marks the
Middle of Nowhere) for the wraiths to get replacement black duds.
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> > (the
> > movie was an incredible finicial gamble, so I try not to scream too much
> > since they were brave enough to do it as a trilogy).
>
> I find little to complain about when it comes to differences between the
> book and movie(s). To film the book literally and in the original sequence
> would have been painful to watch. The trip through the woods and meeting
> Tom Bombadil could have easily consumed 30 minutes on its own.
5 minutes of Tom Bombadil would have been overkill, much less 30. Good
riddance (though I am a Tim Benzedrine fan, "Oh man, here comes the rush!").
Anyway, I'm not the one screaming about the (first) movie.
-->Bruce<--
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