FotR vs. TTT Editing - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HCIsland · 09-19-2003, 05:52 PM

This is obviously a conscious decision and I think it has a lot to do with the slow reveal they use on the dialogue in Towers while they are flying through the mountains, trying to bring the audience back into the film. The volume of Gandalf's lines slowly increases and with each line more of the audience is brought from what's-going-on mode to I-know-where-we-are mode. You would want to have the last line before you enter the mountain to be one that would be recalled by most of the audience, besides "You cannot pass", which you want to save.<P>"Flame of Udun" is less likely to be remembered than "Go back to the shadow".<P>Good spot though. I didn't notice it.<P>H.C.

09-19-2003, 05:52 PM	#12
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	This is obviously a conscious decision and I think it has a lot to do with the slow reveal they use on the dialogue in Towers while they are flying through the mountains, trying to bring the audience back into the film. The volume of Gandalf's lines slowly increases and with each line more of the audience is brought from what's-going-on mode to I-know-where-we-are mode. You would want to have the last line before you enter the mountain to be one that would be recalled by most of the audience, besides "You cannot pass", which you want to save.<P>"Flame of Udun" is less likely to be remembered than "Go back to the shadow".<P>Good spot though. I didn't notice it.<P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor