I had never actually seen Fran Walsh before - she's adorable!!
I was convinced I'd never put a name to the voice, based on the way the DVDs are presented. I guess, though, that if I were going to pick a moment to be the 'public face' of a creative couple, it would be while accepting awards for a large accomplishment. You're right, she is pretty, but I hadn't been paying attention, and I had to ask my roommate, "Who is that on the stage with Howard?" And I didn't believe her till Fran opened her mouth.
Ken, word on the compression of the march to the Black Gate. If it only took the combined armies of Everyone and Everybody 30 seconds to get there, how come it took Sam and Frodo seemingly weeks (and 2+ hours) to traverse the same territory heading in the other direction?? I mean, I know Hobbit legs are shorter, but this is ridiculous.
With luck, that means there's more to be put in there in the extendo-return. If the extendo edition is really going to be 4:15, I worry -- I can think of a lot of footage, probably more than 45 minutes, that needs to be shoehorned in!
If it only took the combined armies of Everyone and Everybody 30 seconds to get there, how come it took Sam and Frodo seemingly weeks (and 2+ hours) to traverse the same territory heading in the other direction?? I mean, I know Hobbit legs are shorter, but this is ridiculous.
Either Pelennor Fields took place much earlier than it seems, or Frodo and Sam were standing on that cliff for several hours twiddling their thumbs waiting for the orcs to move. But as cut, the chronology doesn't hold up.
Well, there's an awful lot of slogging across the Gorgoroth that doesn't get into the movie.
I would think that
The Houses of Healing
on their own would be at least 30 minutes.
But as cut, the chronology doesn't hold up.
Yeah, it's odd. They fixed the synch up between Shelob and the rest of the group, in that they now take place on-screen about when they'd take place in time, but then they compressed the hell out of the end-run and threw the timeline out of whack again.
Granted, the endless slog throught Mordor and "I can't go on...I must go on...it's so heavy..." is probably the hardest going for me these days on re-reading the books.
Well, there's an awful lot of slogging across the Gorgoroth that doesn't get into the movie.
No, before that -- the time in between when Frodo and Sam are saying "gee, that's a lot of orcs" and "hey, the orcs are moving, let's go!" doesn't seem to be that long, from their perspective. (Since they haven't moved at all.) But when you look at what happens to the other characters during that time (Pelennor Fields ends, Aragorn changes clothes, they make a plan to ride to the Black Gate, they do so), it just doesn't line up.
Oh. Yeah, that's true. (I'm sorry that they didn't put in the they're-mistaken-for-orcs scene, but then I might've had Where There's A Whip There's A Way flashbacks, so it's probably just as well.)
Granted, the endless slog throught Mordor and "I can't go on...I must go on...it's so heavy..." is probably the hardest going for me these days on re-reading the books.
Just so. 'It's cold. We don't have much Lembas left. My shoulder hurts. This ring is heavy.' When I read it the first time I would keep stopping to wonder if Tolkien was doing it deliberately to try and make reading about it as mind numbingly horrible as doing something about it. Now, I'm just. 'Yeah, suck it up and march, Shire Boy. Let's get to the good stuff.'
