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Essex · 02-25-2004, 10:25 AM

once the oscars have been given, you will see (maybe a few months, definately just before ee rotk comes out) that Jackson will 'change his mind' and state that the EE are the definitive versions.

at the moment, if jackson was to say, well the cinematic version isn't really the complete version, then I would hazard to guess a lot of oscar voters would deem the film they are voting for (ie the cinematic one) as not worthy of a best picture award as it is not even the complete version.

jackson, no matter what he might say, had to cut the films down to a viewable size for the cinema. thus he had to cut out things that he did not want to. (maybe gandalf v witchking and mouth of sauron for example)

ps re the epilouge mentioned above. I believe one was done, or at least planned. have a listen to the directors' commentary on the ee fotr dvd. where we see the fellowship of the ring title jackson/boyens/walsh mention that the films will be 'bookended' by Galadriel. I take this to mean they at least planned an epilouge. Indeed in an interview (somewhere on aint it cool news) boyens and walsh were interviewed and stated that there could well be an epilouge at the end of the rotk ee (including what happened afterwards - ie the appendix)

02-25-2004, 10:25 AM	#24
Essex Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 886	once the oscars have been given, you will see (maybe a few months, definately just before ee rotk comes out) that Jackson will 'change his mind' and state that the EE are the definitive versions. at the moment, if jackson was to say, well the cinematic version isn't really the complete version, then I would hazard to guess a lot of oscar voters would deem the film they are voting for (ie the cinematic one) as not worthy of a best picture award as it is not even the complete version. jackson, no matter what he might say, had to cut the films down to a viewable size for the cinema. thus he had to cut out things that he did not want to. (maybe gandalf v witchking and mouth of sauron for example) ps re the epilouge mentioned above. I believe one was done, or at least planned. have a listen to the directors' commentary on the ee fotr dvd. where we see the fellowship of the ring title jackson/boyens/walsh mention that the films will be 'bookended' by Galadriel. I take this to mean they at least planned an epilouge. Indeed in an interview (somewhere on aint it cool news) boyens and walsh were interviewed and stated that there could well be an epilouge at the end of the rotk ee (including what happened afterwards - ie the appendix)