question regarding killing of the witch king
01-02-04, 01:19 PM
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Originally posted by das Monkey
Independent of the book, it's a valid question (not a "movie's diffferent from the book" nitpick). They talked up his badass power quite a bit during the film and then sidestepped it come kill time. I have very little problem with any of the creative decisions necessary to bring this vision to the big screen, but just looking at it as a film, they could have handled that scene better. Either don't promote him so much, or give a little reasoning for how they took him out. As it is now, it's just disjointed. Perhaps they address it better in the EE. I found the other two EE's to do an excellent job clarifying the more underdeveloped parts of the TE's, so hopefully that's the case here. In a year's time, the existence of the TE's will fade from my memory anyway.
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Independent of the book, it's a valid question (not a "movie's diffferent from the book" nitpick). They talked up his badass power quite a bit during the film and then sidestepped it come kill time. I have very little problem with any of the creative decisions necessary to bring this vision to the big screen, but just looking at it as a film, they could have handled that scene better. Either don't promote him so much, or give a little reasoning for how they took him out. As it is now, it's just disjointed. Perhaps they address it better in the EE. I found the other two EE's to do an excellent job clarifying the more underdeveloped parts of the TE's, so hopefully that's the case here. In a year's time, the existence of the TE's will fade from my memory anyway.
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Originally posted by GatorDeb
I didn't think about this at all. I spent the whole sequence thinking "Why the heck doesn't anybody take the dead horse from on top of Theoden?!"
I didn't think about this at all. I spent the whole sequence thinking "Why the heck doesn't anybody take the dead horse from on top of Theoden?!"
cause they are fighting a war and to waste your energy to pick up a dead man who can't fight or for that matter, stand on his own is a wasted effort.
01-02-04, 02:22 PM
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Originally posted by caligulathegod
Yeah, I suppose they were hoping to get away with it just being a woman to kill him. I thought him pointing out that "No man can kill me." and her saying she was no man was pretty straight forward. Of course then that opens up that Arwen could have taken them all out at the fords if she'd known.
Yeah, I suppose they were hoping to get away with it just being a woman to kill him. I thought him pointing out that "No man can kill me." and her saying she was no man was pretty straight forward. Of course then that opens up that Arwen could have taken them all out at the fords if she'd known.
01-02-04, 03:45 PM
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Jack - maybe if they had taken the horse from on top of him he wouldn't have died 
And where did everyone else go? It seemed that as soon as the King was down, everyone else dispersed from around him. Cowards!
And where did everyone else go? It seemed that as soon as the King was down, everyone else dispersed from around him. Cowards!
01-02-04, 06:06 PM
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• Quoth Jackskeleton •
The networks really need to start putting new episodes on...
The networks really need to start putting new episodes on...
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01-02-04, 06:10 PM
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A shame the new das doesn't know how to use the quote feature.... 
Deb, it's kinda hard to think "Hmmm, let me forget this giant creature that just landed here and is heading towards are fallen king who is already tore up, let me pick him up why not"
The fact that the dead horse was on him wasn't a factor of him living or dying, the point were he was clawed off his feet is where he was already a goner.
Deb, it's kinda hard to think "Hmmm, let me forget this giant creature that just landed here and is heading towards are fallen king who is already tore up, let me pick him up why not"
The fact that the dead horse was on him wasn't a factor of him living or dying, the point were he was clawed off his feet is where he was already a goner.
01-02-04, 11:54 PM
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Originally posted by GatorDeb
Jack - maybe if they had taken the horse from on top of him he wouldn't have died
And where did everyone else go? It seemed that as soon as the King was down, everyone else dispersed from around him. Cowards!
Jack - maybe if they had taken the horse from on top of him he wouldn't have died
And where did everyone else go? It seemed that as soon as the King was down, everyone else dispersed from around him. Cowards!
And dont forget my earlier point, the horse probably weighs upwards of 1000 lbs.!
