Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:28:15 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Two Towers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

For those who plan on seeing LOTR: Two Towers and haven't seen Fellowship =
of the Ring . . . oh dear.

>From Time Magazine:
(http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101021202/story.html)

Viewers, beware. The Two Towers, the dazzling second installment of
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, picks up exactly where the first one left
off. No Star Wars-style scroll to bring you up to speed, no quick
compilation of scenes from the first film, no opening Cate Blanchett
narration - nothing. It begins in medias res, as though you had just
stepped out for a few seconds to get more popcorn. If you didn't see
last year's The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, the trilogy's
wizardly director, isn't about to cut you any slack.

"I know that New Line (the studio releasing the films) would have
preferred us to have a little catch-up," says the director, sitting in an
office in Wellington, New Zealand, speaking in a cheerful Kiwi accent
and peering from behind a mop of curls and plate-size wire-rim glasses.
"But I think that's a very TV kind of device. I figured the amount of
people going to see Two Towers without seeing Fellowship would be
fairly minute. If you can't at least spend $3 or $4 to rent it before you
see Two Towers, there's no point in going."

mjw