The Two Towers

[andrewducker]

I just got a link (courtesy of the BBC) to the trailer AOL has for the Two Towers. I suspect AOL will cut this as soon as they notice, so enjoy it while you can, it'll be available worldwide soon enough.

Two notes:
1) Ooh, that looks good.
2) The music during the second half (the violin bits) is by the Kronos Quartet and is from the movie Requiem for a Dream. I'd recommend you all saw it, but only if you have strong stomachs and don't mind being horrifically depressed.

Comments

[ex-aphonia179.livejournal.com]

That movie fucked me up. Requiem, I mean.

A.

[andrewducker]

I can understand that. we had to wait for my brother's wife to stop crying before we could leave the cinema.

If, when I die, I can look back on that as the most harrowing 2 hours of my life, I'll be happy.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

I LIKED Requiem for a Dream, though YES it was indeed incredibly mind-squashingly depressing.

And I've seen the Two Towers preview as well -- it all but makes me drool! Though I'm petrified of Golem, so I have mixed feelings about going to see the movie by myself.

[andrewducker]

Oh, requiem for a Dream is an amazing film. It just needs warning up before you go.

And yeah, the bits that scared me the most in FOTR were the bits where the Ring was corrupting people - Bilbo's grab at the ring, for instance.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Well, Golem has ALWAYS scared the pants off me. When I first read the Hobbit I was really little (like 6 or so) and I had nightmares about him.

Seeing him creeping about in the trailer was almost more than I could bear!

I think some of the CGI in FOTR was a bit much -- Bilbo's grab at the ring would have been even MORE effective if I hadn't been distracted by the manipulation of his face. But then, I always think genuine "human" emotion is better than all the digital enhancement in the world. The same thing with the scene where Galadriel is tempted by the ring.

[andrewducker]

It's Gollum, by the way :-P You're obviously blocked it out. The Golem was the clay man that saved the Jews of Prague.

And yeah, he's creepy. I kinda agree about Bilbo and Galadriel, except that both bits are in the books too. And seeing that Bilbo is physically being converted shows how very dangerous the Ring is. Galadriel was just getting carried away, but I did actually find it hard to understand her voice during that scene.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

I HAVE blocked it out, thank you very much. :) I love that Golem story about the Jews of Prague though -- it's great.

I'm so excited about Two Towers right now!

For the most part they've been handling the more fantastical scenes very well. Though I still miss the presence of Tom Bombadil. Anyway. It's hard to convert into a visual format something that was really only meant to be envisioned in someone's head -- which is far more extraordinary than any CGI. That's the danger in converting any book into a film format, actually. Especially well-loved books. I think they are succeeding rather nicely with the LOTR stuff, but I know a few people who visioned things differently and are hating the movies.

[andrewducker]

The problem with things we've all imagined before seeing the movie is that nothing could possibly live up to them.

For instance, I adored the book IT, but when I watched the tv series there was nothing they could have put up on that screen that could have scared me as much as the book did.

No image of Bilbo you showed me would look like the Bilbo in my head, because the Bilbo in my head doesn't have a precise image, he's a collection of thoughts, images, feelings and connotations.

Kronos Quartet...

[synergetics.livejournal.com]

... is playing at my college in November. I can't wait.