So, much of the flow of ''Towers'' is dictated by the amount of information that has to be saved for the next installment. This is partially because ''Towers'' is more or less a bridge to the finale of the ''Rings'' trilogy due a year from now, though this picture is one of the most accomplished holding actions ever. Jackson allows him to be conflicted in a way none of the other characters in the film are.
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(He has been dropped into the movie more effectively than George Lucas crammed Jar Jar Binks into his recent ''Star Wars'' addenda.) With the voice of Andy Serkis, whose movements were also copied by the animators, Gollum is torn by his nature, and Mr. Gollum is a computer-generated creation and as fully realized a character as can be found in ''Towers'' - perhaps the most fully realized. But he is also a hissing, bitter child-man whose paranoia keeps him breathing, and plotting. Gollum is divided within himself he is an infantilized wreck who wants to please and befriend the hobbits.
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He is now an emotional and physical shambles emaciated and slunk into a perpetual crouch, Gollum's translucent, waxy skin is a membrane that just barely contains his insides. He gets a taste of what the future might be like when he and Sam meet Gollum, a hobbit who was once seduced by the ring.
The pursuit of purity is at the center of ''Towers.''įor our hero, Frodo, whose quest is to purge the forces of menacing evil from Middle Earth, purity is demonstrated by combating the temptation to wear the ring and be consumed by its corrupting power. With the narrative of ''Rings,'' Tolkien was investigating determination, loyalty and, finally, faith, finding innumerable ways to offer up the concept of purity of heart, as found in Matthew 5:8 and in Kierkegaard, whose contention was that purity of heart was the ability to will one thing into being. Such moviegoers may feel left out, puzzled and unable to keep up. And there may even be folks out there who haven't seen ''Fellowship,'' but will be lured into theaters for ''Towers'' by all the attention that ''Fellowship'' attracted. Jackson does not seem to understand that there are people who haven't absorbed the ''Rings'' chronology into the entirety of their beings. Even though the first film took in enough cash to jump-start the flagging United States economy single-handedly, Mr. It is a daring gambit to have viewers enter a movie bearing such complex preceding action with so little information. But this scene is used to set ''The Two Towers'' in motion. By doing this he simultaneously answers those who complained that too much of the previous ''Rings'' was about setup.Ī brief recap of a climactic battle between the friendly wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a fire demon - one of many climactic battles from ''Fellowship'' - is shown near the start.
Jackson's ploy in this beautifully considered epic is to give viewers the same feeling of confusion that his characters are experiencing. Jackson uses all his talents in the service of that reverence, creating a rare perfect mating of filmmaker and material. Never has a film so strongly been a product of a director's respect for its source. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy manifests itself in a gripping, intense fashion for the second of the film adaptations, ''The Two Towers.'' It may be the first sequel that does not bother to reprise the major plot elements of its predecessor immediately the plan is to simply drop us right into the action.Įven for those deeply immersed in the material, this stratagem creates a few moments of apprehension - the same disconcerted quality that the hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) are experiencing on their journey this mission began in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' when Frodo was entrusted with the ring that gives its bearer enormous powers and, incidentally, begins the end of life in Middle Earth, as was indicated in the first ''Ring'' movie, ''The Fellowship of the Ring.'' The director Peter Jackson's scrupulous devotion to the spirit of J.
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