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To: dagogo redux

What’s the difference with the “extended version”?

I’ve been reading and re-reading the books for about 25 years now, and while I enjoyed the Peter Jackson version, I didn’t enjoy it enough to pay for any DVDs.

Does the extended version include scenes not in the film? If so, can you give us a brief rundown of the added scenes?


6 posted on 12/26/2011 5:44:32 PM PST by risen_feenix
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To: risen_feenix

Added scenes: Age of Aragorn, Finding the food at Isengard by the hobbits, death of Saramon, Confronting the Mouth of Saron, Merry and Pippin drinking water at Fangorn Forest, Dialogue with White Gandalf, Scene of the brothers Farmir and Boromer with their Father, Denathor. Ones thought of off the top of my head.


10 posted on 12/26/2011 5:51:56 PM PST by taterjay
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To: risen_feenix

Too much was added to run through all the differences, but they are enormous.

First the choppiness of seeing three movies, each a year apart, as it was originally released, makes it all hang together so much better.

Then, all the material - all the scenes and parts of scenes that makes the story gel and make sense - all the material cut out to make the movies stand as normal-length features - all that is put back in. The movie just flows now, it lives, it breathes, it makes sense.

The extended edition also contains wonderful behind-the-scenes stuff about the creation of the film. That sort of stuff usually bores the heck out of me, but having seen it once - the first year we watched it - has really helped me appreciate the artistry and vision that went into recreating Tolkien’s story in this film version.

I’ve no problem, or course, if anyone sticks with the books - they are the source, the original texts, and dear to me; but to dismiss the movie after having merely watched the standard theatrical releases years apart or even altogether in one sitting is to have missed something truly worthwhile, IMO.

Either way, I’m happy for your love of the books.


14 posted on 12/26/2011 6:00:35 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: risen_feenix

I think there’s about 1 1/2 hours of footage not in the film if I’m adding in my head correctly.

The making of the film, which they go into in the extended DVD, is nearly as good as the film. These guys broke new ground in special effects.


17 posted on 12/26/2011 6:06:22 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Election 2012 - No Prisoners. No Mercy.)
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To: risen_feenix

The extended versions are SO MUCH better than the theatrical releases. The extended and added scenes make all the difference in the world, and they make The Two Towers so so much better than it was in the theater.

Truly, if you are a fan of these films, treat yourself to the extended editions.


22 posted on 12/26/2011 6:21:32 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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