You are welcome, Wendy. I almost have part 3 ready, which has the caps I most love in this scene, further demonstrating EW's sensitivity and range. He's a gift for that, as you point out so well. Yes, the scene does show the development in their relationship, too.
Again, I wish they had left this scene in the theatrical version. It does a lot for the film, offering some lightness at the opening, and better developing their Frodo "character arc". The writers were keen to show Frodo's descent into inner darkness during this film. How much more of an impact his later despairing and mad scenes would have had if TTT viewers could have mentally compared them to *this* scene at the front of TTT. Otherwise they only had the first scenes in FotR to refer to, mentally, and it might have been a year since they had seen its light-hearted Frodo.
I can think of a few things I'd have preferred left out of TTT, in stead. Well, not left out, but trimmed.
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Date: 2007-04-15 12:28 pm (UTC)Again, I wish they had left this scene in the theatrical version. It does a lot for the film, offering some lightness at the opening, and better developing their Frodo "character arc". The writers were keen to show Frodo's descent into inner darkness during this film. How much more of an impact his later despairing and mad scenes would have had if TTT viewers could have mentally compared them to *this* scene at the front of TTT. Otherwise they only had the first scenes in FotR to refer to, mentally, and it might have been a year since they had seen its light-hearted Frodo.
I can think of a few things I'd have preferred left out of TTT, in stead. Well, not left out, but trimmed.