I know I keep saying of this or that EE scene, "what a shame this scene wasn’t included in the theatrical version", but what a shame this wasn't included in the theatrical version! Not only is it beautiful, it accomplishes a lot, narratively. I'll mention just a few of the things I think this scene does well.
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For this post, the book scene will come first. The film script and screencaps follow. Unfortunately, there is no poem. There is, however, a long discussion section. Those not interested should scroll past it to the images.
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All in all, I think the film scenes for Gorgoroth are very, very good. They are truncated, it is true, due to the screenwriters’ need to compress so much material into a few brief scenes. There are moments and nuances missing that I love. Still, I think the filmmakers did wonderfully well.
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Discussion for "The Tower of Cirith Ungol":
In this scene, the differences between the book and film are apparent to any fan. Most obviously, book Frodo wakes up completely naked while film Frodo wakes up minus his shirt. ( Read more... )
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I already said in the last post how good I think Elijah Wood is in the scene, first goaded, then attacked by Gollum. ( Read more... )
As for the scene itself, the more I look at it the more I think the screenwriters’ based the scene not on the fight in the Shelob’s Lair chapter, but the one in Mount Doom. I think they used the “transfiguration” scene I was referring to in the last post, in which Gollum attacks Frodo, who is being carried by Sam. Frodo falls off, and he and Gollum struggle. ( Read more... )
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This is the first in a series of nine for Shelob's tunnel and the pass of Cirith Ungol up until the moment when Shelob is hovering over Frodo's head. I liked so many of the screencaps, even after eliminating half of them, there were too many to squeeze into fewer posts.
I think this an excellent piece of filmmaking. ( Read more... )
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Well, I’m back.
We spent two weeks visiting my sister who lives where it is sunny and warm and gorgeous. I tramped along river beds winding through gorges, hiked over yellow hills, and sat long hours under a canopy by her swimming pool set amid roses, live oak and tall grass. Wild turkey gobbled unseen in the pasture below, vultures wheeled and horses neighed. I listened to the audio book of “The Order of the Phoenix” (as a refresher before seeing the new film—my hearty recommendations for Jim Dale's readings of the Harry Potter series, less hearty recommendations for the fifth film), read my print-out of a huge and famous Frodo fanfic, and had time left over for some books on myth and Jungian archetypes (the last will make its way into my discussion below).
Note: I started writing the essay for this post before my trip, but it became so long and involved I couldn’t finish it. So beware. The remaining parts to this series will have only brief discussions. Also, until I get the full series posted, the links to the other parts won’t work. The book excerpt, since the film and book versions of this scene have nothing in common, is at the bottom.
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Other than jan-u-wine's poem, which says volumes about Frodo's experience in the vale of Minas Morgul, I have little else to say about this section. The caps are, I think, spectacular (if a person is a suffering-Frodo fan). They have been cropped and tweaked to better bring out Frodo's facial expressions.
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I've said most of what I want to say about this scene in the previous entry, Ithilien Pt. 4. More is expressed about this scene in an excellent poem by jan-u-wine, which appears below.
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I capped this scene because it is well-shot, well-acted, and Frodo and Sam look great in the frames. However, I think it was a huge mistake to put it in the EE. ( Read more... )
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This scene continues to develop the strained relationship between the "troubled trio" (Frodo, Gollum, and Sam), which was set up in their first scene together, in TTT.
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The excellent RotK scene capped below recapitulates the dynamics seen in TTT, but it is not exactly the same. ( Read more... )
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This, too, is an excellent scene. It’s beautifully played and filmed. I think Sean Astin did some of his best acting here. It’s not showy, but watching his Sam consider their store of food and how long it could be expected to last, I felt as though I could see his thought processes as they happened.
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Here begins the last of my RotK screencap posts, marking the home stretch of this long-running project (only about 35 entries to go).
Because of the way it opens up the meaning of these caps, I am also posting jan-u-wine's Too Often. It appears below the screencaps, and is not to be missed.
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