Peri
12-05-2002, 02:57 PM
Hi all. I'm posting this here first beacause the movies site is down. This comes from a fellow LOTR fan and I'm passing it on to anyone who wants to read it. This IS a TTT: 1st 10 min opening sequence spoiler, so if you don't want to know, don't read.<P>*************************WARNING****************** **********************TTT SPOILER****************************************<P>The Two Towers begins with an imposing panoramic shot of the Misty <BR>Mountains. The camera crosses their steep peaks and, little by <BR>little, a voice starts to be audible in the distance. The camera <BR>approaches closer and closer to the mountains, and finally goes <BR>inside. Then you know that the voice in the distance is that of <BR>Gandalf. We enter the mountain and arrive at the bridge of Khazad-<BR>dûm at the scene of the fight with the Balrog! Ian McKellen was in <BR>the same place as when he was last seen in FoTR.<BR>Then, we return to see the sequence of the Fellowship of the Ring in <BR>which Gandalf falls into the chasm with the Balrog. But this time, <BR>we do not follow the Fellowship as it flees from Moria - but we <BR>instead see Gandalf and the Balrog as they fall into the chasm <BR>whilst they continue fighting. The sequence finishes without showing <BR>us the defeat of the Balrog at this moment (I suppose that the <BR>defeat of the Balrog is narrated by means of a flashback, just as <BR>Gandalf's escape from Orthanc was in the first film - although this is <BR>just a guess).<BR>Despite all of that, we cut to Frodo and Sam entering the Emyn Muil -<BR>and already, without delay, Gollum finally appears. This sequence <BR>tells how they catch and Gollum and subsequent events (we have <BR>already seen something like this in the trailer) as they decide to <BR>take Gollum with them. I cannot tell you more, as I'd prefer that <BR>you see Gollum for yourselves (in all seriousness: I cannot tell you <BR>more about the appearance of Gollum, in light of non-disclosure <BR>agreements(?)).<BR>I seem to remember that this comes before a brief sequence that <BR>shows Merry and Pippin being carried by the Uruks - as Pippin drops <BR>his broach as a signal for his friends.<BR>Then there is also a scene in Isengard - but not necessarily in this <BR>order. I am a professional and have seen many films - but now I must <BR>clear my mind carefully to try to remember what I saw correctly. <BR>Saruman, who has already created a terrible army of Uruk-Hai, orders <BR>his followers to attack the plains of Men. And later there is a <BR>scene in which Uruks devastate a town of the Rohirrim and some of <BR>the humans try to flee towards Edoras.