An attacking Nazgûl nearly captures Frodo, who momentarily attacks Sam before coming to his senses, forcing Sam to remind him that they are fighting for the good still left in Middle-earth. While passing through the besieged Gondorian city of Osgiliath, Sam reveals that Boromir's death was because he was driven mad by and tried to take the Ring. After torturing Gollum while inadvertently instilling in him the notion that he has been betrayed when Frodo saves him from being killed, Faramir learns of the One Ring and takes his captives with him to Gondor to win his father's respect. Frodo and Sam are later captured by the Rangers of Ithilien led by Faramir, brother of the late Boromir. Meanwhile, becoming loyal to Frodo after taking him and Sam through the Dead Marshes, Gollum convinces the Hobbits of another entrance besides the Black Gate. Using gunpowder-like explosives on a sewer drain that Wormtongue told Saruman about, the Uruk-hai breach the outer wall and force the remaining defenders to retreat into the inner castle. The Uruk-hai army arrives at Helm's Deep that night, finding a makeshift army of civilians and Elves from Lothlórien waiting for them as a night-long battle follows. However, he is found by his horse Brego and taken to Helm's Deep. When the exodus comes under attack by Warg-riding Orcs, Aragorn falls off a cliff into a river and is presumed dead. Aragorn builds a friendship with Théoden's niece, Éowyn, who quickly becomes infatuated with him. After learning of Saruman's plans to wipe out Rohan with his Uruk-hai army, Théoden decides to move his citizens to Helm's Deep, an ancient fortress that has provided refuge to Rohan's people in times past, while Gandalf departs to acquire the aid of the Rohirrim. I liked it better in the cut-and-dried good old days.Aragorn's group travels to Rohan's capital city Edoras, where Gandalf releases Théoden from Saruman's influence and Wormtongue is subsequently banished. I will have to judge all future films in their myriad versions on a case-by-case basis.īlech. This kind of thing makes the extended versions both the same old 'director's cut' crap and, at the same time, legimately "real" in many other respects. bluntly states were never supposed to both be there - but he put the 'Bilbo freaks out' opening on the E.V. Fellowship, in particular, has an extended version which features two distinct openings which P.J. I definitely prefer the openings of the first two films in their theatrical versions. Even though I prefer these versions, I think that would be unfortunate.
It may be, in fact, that even in theaters the extended versions will become the defacto definitive versions of the films.
#LOTR TWO TOWERS EXTENDED EDITION FULL#
Just as with the Matrix movies, where one must have multimedia experience of the films and videogames and perhaps even animated series to get the creator's full intent, LotR is being created in dual media formats for theater and home viewing.
I would have to confess that the situation thus becomes much more complicated and less black-and-white. But in the case of Lord of the Rings, where the director simultaneously creates a theatrical version and a DVD version, which is the "real" version of such a film? In the case of 'King Kong' or 'Fantasia' or 'Close Encouters of the Third Kind,' I have no problem discerning which is the "real" version. In this instance, and perhaps it applies to other filmmakers, his "extended versions" are not director's cuts in 20-years-later hindsight and they are not some studio re-editing or censorship cuts. On the commentary tracks (or is it the extras?), Peter Jackson flat out states that he filmed many scenes specifically for the DVD version that he knew would not be in his theatrical version. Yes, it is a stance applicable only to the pre-DVD age.
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