Extended Edition TTT!!!!!!
I've seen it!!! My local video store sold it to me last Friday! Hee hee hee...!
The first thing to note is that the additions/changes in TTT are far more numerous than those in FOTR. Literally dozens and dozens of tiny changes were included, from reaction shots to single lines of dialogue. This on top of several small exchanges, or extensions of existing scenes plus entire new sequences!
Do they work? Yes! With three small privisoes <sp?>
1) Theodred's funeral doesn't quite flow with what goes before and after. It is strong mostly in terms of Eowyn's song--which is not some pretty melody sung by a professional musician but more like a ritual dirge by a lady with a strong voice. Which I suppose it is. I was left with a jarringly intense glimpse at Eowyn's pain.
2) I was looking for something that didn't happen. When Treebeard utters his great howl that summons the other Ents to march on Isengard, I frankly hoped in the EE that howl would go on and on and on, so that Saruman would hear it then have a reaction that would freak out Wormtongue. Myself, I even hoped for echoing/answering howls from the other Ents. Had no concrete reason for expecting this, but I did somehow.
3) Several wrap-up scene-ettes were at the end. The Uruk-hai going into the forest of Huorns, Merry and Pippin finding food and tobacco, Faramir seeing Frodo off. The first of these was okay, but the second and third didn't really do anything for me. Found myself wishing they'd been left out.
Regarding additions we've heard about...
Faramir is much more fleshed out, and interestingly his relationship with the Ring becomes clear in the process. It literally is a siren call to the young Captain of Gondor, offering him what he desires most--not power (like Galadriel) or success (like Gandalf) or lost youth (like Boromir), but his father's love. Telling, that. Yes, Denethor does give Boromir an order to bring him the Ring, but you can see Boromir is not at all convinced this is a good idea. Plus Faramir does have a lovely bit of dialogue about a fallen Haradrim warrior. Plus there's the fact that as the Ithilien Rangers are beating on Gollum, Faramir choses not to watch.
The Ents do get more screentime, including references to the Entwives (and a line from Treebeard that nearly made me cry). Honestly, the sequence about the Entdraughts could have stayed cut, imo.
Theoden overall gets a much clearer story arc, as does Eowyn. I'm not complaining about what theatrical version had for either, but its better in the EE. Pretty much the same for Gollum, whose dual nature makes an earlier appearance. Interestingly, you walk away utterly certain Eowyn doesn't really love Aragorn--that her reaction to him is tied up with other issues. And one new sequence between the two of them is simply priceless!!!
Honestly, I'd say the EE isn't quite the improvement in TTT as it was for FOTR, but I'm still thrilled. The extra Faramir scenes and extra bits in Rohan alone make it worth it.
"O let my name be in the Book of Love; if it be there I care
Not of the other great book above. Strike it out!
Or write it in anew. But let my name be in the Book of Love!"
Re: Extended Edition TTT!!!!!!
I've been too busy this week to go get it...but have promised myself to get it tomorrow and watch it at least twice on Friday, my day off from work.
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OK, got a chance to watch it and I must say, that just as the extended Lothlorien scenes made the extended edition of FOTR much better, so did the added/extended Faramir scenes in the extended edition of TTT. I don't want to get too specific due to spoilers...but they made Faramir a much more likeable person...
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