The Fellowship of the Ring BOOK CUT
 a TRUE FANEDIT by Hal9000
In conjunction with Phil, the original fan editor behind the rare book cuts, these revamped book cuts are finally published. member ratings: |
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INTENTION:
We re-cut the film as close as we wanted it… to the book… obviously we couldn’t have ALL of the stuff from the book because we would need extra footage.
CUTLIST :
- The film begins, not by a prologue but with Bilbo writing his book…
- it all happens in sequence until when Gandalf trots to Minas Tirith and looks at the old scrolls… then we see an un-cut and un-narrated LAST ALLIANCE battle.
- Removed a few of Merry and Pippin’s Jar Jar moments.
- It goes in order but there are no Gandalf/Saruman sub-plot intercuts… so now we, the audience don’t know what happened to him!
- The film keeps going and we stop right at when the Ringwraiths meet their (temporary) doom at the ford of Bruinen. (Phil’s voice can be heard added to this scene.)
- Disc 2 is inserted, and we fade in with Gandalf sitting near Frodo’s bed. When Frodo asks him what happened, Gandalf recalls the FULL and UNCUT sub-plot of the Saruman “incident,” minus the line about Sauron not being able to take physical shape.
- A few chunks of the prologue are dispersed throughout the film, such as Isildur’s fate and some Gollum content.
- Obliterated the lame self-doubt of Aragorn. (No telling Legolas to sit down at the Council, no protesting Elrond and Arwen’s encouragement, etc.)
- We also tried to make Saruman a little less “central” as a villian… like in the books. So, you won’t be hearing Gandalf say “It’s Sarumaaaan!” at Caradrhas for example. Nor, will you see alot of Uruk-Hai suiting up and stuff that takes place in Saruman’s shack.
- Moria sees a shortened plight on the crumbling staircase, and the fellowship don’t see/notice any dwarf corpses until Balin’s tomb. So the Watcher’s attack is more of a surprise… sort of.
- The theatrical version of the approach on Lothlórien is used in order to remove the out of place scene from the extended edition.
- Galadriel does not tell Frodo someone inside the fellowship will try to take the ring, nor talks to Aragorn about his self-doubt.
- When they boat through the Anduin there is no “Isengard theme music video” with intercuts with the Fellowship and the Uruk-Hai.
- The extended night scene with Boromir, Aragorn, Frodo, and Gollum….
- We removed the quarrel between Boromir and Aragorn. Because Aragorn is too much of a self-doubting nut and the book doesn’t reveal such bitterness toward Boromir or Gondor on his part.
- And we do not see Boromir die… he blows his horn once and the trio run for his aid and we CUT to Frodo with the ring.
- The film ends that way… without intercutting with Aragorn and company… that, we will see in our revamped TTT cut!
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It’s hard to not to judge this by comparision, as I’ve seen two other FotR edits recently (one of them from one of the editors on this project).
As such this stands on two good feet. The technical side is excellent, but sometimes I wish that the edit would be more daring, but for at least one thing it’s too daring instead!
The really brave part was including things read by one of the editors. By the ford of Bruinen it works great, excellent subtle and yet daring addition. that’s what I like! But during the battle of the last alliance it doesn’t work at all. It’s so clearly out of place, no narration at all would have been better.
Still didn’t like the stairway cut. The fellowship sees some corpses when entering Moria, but no mention is done of them. Slightly odd…or perhaps all dungeons in this world are littered with the bodies of the dead?
¨The editors has chosen to include the appearance of the orcs in the end, even though they first show up in the two towers book. I fully agree on this. I suppose it depends on how you view the book-cut part. Must it adhere strictly to the pages in the book? At least this way the ending makes sense.
There were too many scenes left unaltered (that I want to change) for me too go all the way with this. This is the most skilled FotR edit we have here, but for the first half of the movie, not the most entertaining one. And probably not the one that sticks most closely to the book either.
4 / 5 stars.
Looking forward to the rest.
Review by spelledaren — February 19, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
very well done and nicely done a good why of doing the first film it is more real to the film
Review by hunter12 — February 26, 2009 @ 11:22 pm