> -----Original Message----- > From: Horn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 11:01 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: The Two Towers (spoilers) > > > > From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Me too. (Everybody together: D-V-D, D-V-D, D-V-D....) > > Why is everyone positive that there will be an "Extended > Edition DVD" for _The Two Towers_? Has Peter Jackson said > for a fact that there will be one? For some reason, I thought > that the FOTR one was the exception not the rule. But I'm not > sure where I got that idea...
The rumor is that there will be.. heck, there were some good-sized editing holes in TTT that could be attributable to missing footage in the interest of pacing (as that's where the majority of the FotR cuts were) - no mention of the river Isen nor the dam that holds it back - choppy editing around Merry & Pippen - swift loss-and-rebirth of Aragorn after the worg attack - Faramir > BTW, I now understand better the change in Faramir. The Ring > is much more malvolent and active in Jackson's version. Even > Aragorn was greatly tempted by it and had to send Frodo away > in order to be certain he would resist it. If Faramir had > resisted as he had in the book, he would have been *better* > than Aragorn. By making this change, Faramir seems somewhere > in between Aragorn and Boromir. (I'm still not sure I like > it but I can understand > it.) *slow nod* yeah... I can buy that. -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
