HCIsland,<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>I posted quite some time ago that intercuting Helm's Deep and Shelob doesn't work because emotionally they run in opposite directions. Helm's Deep ends with victory on the heals of despair. Shelob ends in despair with a smidge of futile hope. As Boyens said, "they cancel each other out".<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>Yes, you make the point clear here and I understand it. But why do we HAVE to end the two towers on a note of victory? The book does not, it ends with the best cliffhanger in literary history. ie "Frodo was alive but taken by the enemy". Just imagine, as many people did back at the begining of publishing these books, that they had to wait a year for the next installment! <BR>Jackson did not require a happy ending in the first film, so why did we have to end TT on an upbeat note? It IS heart warming but not in the spirit of the book. I do not agree that there would have been a problem to show both scenes. But Jackson tells us to wait to see why shelob works best in rotk, so I can't wait to see this.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Mount Doom and The Black Gate Opens (or for that matter Shelob/Cirith Ungol and Pelennor Fields) complement each other perfectly. The emotions in each run parallel. Each scene can be used to build upon the tension of the other until the climax. There will be no reason to sacrifice one for the other.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I stand corrected on this! Thank you.
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