The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Regisseur:

Peter Jackson

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)
Fran Walsh (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

18. Dezember 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Fantasy | Thriller

Werbezeile:

A New Power Is Rising.

Plot:

Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.

Plot Keywords:

Ancient Sword | Mission | Stabbed In The Chest | Nightmare | Stabbed In The Leg

Filmpreise:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 65 wins & 75 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

The Greatest of the Three Rings

Besetzung

Bruce Allpress	...	Aldor
Sean Astin	...	Sam
John Bach	...	Madril
Sala Baker	...	Man Flesh Uruk
Cate Blanchett	...	Galadriel
Orlando Bloom	...	Legolas Greenleaf
Billy Boyd	...	'Pippin' Took
Jed Brophy	...	Sharku / Snaga
Sam Comery	...	Éothain
Brad Dourif	...	Grima Wormtongue
Calum Gittins	...	Haleth
Bernard Hill	...	Theoden
Bruce Hopkins	...	Gamling
Paris Howe Strewe	...	Théodred - Prince of Rohan
Christopher Lee	...	Saruman the White

Alternativ:

Herr der Ringe: Die zwei Türme, Der (Deutschland)
The Two Towers (USA) (short title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for epic battle sequences and scary images. (also special extended edition)

Länge:

179 Min | 223 Min (special extended edition)

Produktionsland:

USA | New Zealand | Deutschland

Sprache:

Englisch | Sindarin | Old English

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS-ES | Dolby Digital EX | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:PA (Manitoba) (original rating) | Hungary:14 | UK:12A (original rating) | UK:12 (video rating) | Brazil:12 | Canada:14A (Manitoba/Ontario) (re-rating) (video) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Malaysia:U | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-11 | Finland:K-15 (special extended edition) | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:12 | Ireland:12 | Israel:PG | Italy:T | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Peru:14 | Philippines:G | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of the Grisons) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39418) | Greece:K-13

Drehorte:

Camperdown Studios, Camperdown Road, Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand

Firma:

New Line Cinema

Dies und das:

Rendering Gollum would often take six hours for one shot, so WETA would leave the shot to render over night and check the results in the morning. Every now and again a computer glitch would occur, for instance, one morning the team woke up to find every hair on Gollum's head standing upright in a sort of punk looking afro, or his eyes would pop in and out of his head as he spoke.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Legolas is pulling Gimli and Aragorn to safety using the rope during the battle of Helm's Deep, Gimli is on Aragorn's right side for every shot except the first close-up of Aragorn in Gimli, where he is clearly on Aragorn's left.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Gandalf: You cannot pass!
Frodo: Gandalf!
Gandalf: I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. Go back to the shadow. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun! You shall not pass!
Galadriel: The power of the enemy is growing. Sauron will use his puppet Saruman to destroy the people of Rohan. Isengard has been unleashed. The Eye of Sauron now turns to Gondor, the last free kingdom of men. His war on this country will come swiftly. He senses the Ring is close...

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Spin Off The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth (2004) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Evenstar

The Greatest of the Three Rings

Yes, it's true. Return of the King may have won more of the Oscars as the culmination of Peter Jackson's magnificent cinematic achievement, but history will in fact adjudge "The Two Towers" as the greatest of the three Rings. If Fellowship was a road movie and ROTK was a friendship film, then Two Towers is an unadulterated war movie of heroic proportions. Peter Jackson said he based it on "Zulu"- and we can see why. It has a dramatic intensity and flow which none of the other films quite share. Good against evil are so sharply contrasted that you could cut your fingers on them. TTT also has the best score Howard Shore has produced. And it has the best dialogue.

The screenplay explains (with barely disguised contemporary resonance) what we are protecting in Western civilisation when we defend ourselves against those who would wish to destroy it. When Sam tells Frodo that there are "some things worth fighting for", when Merry tells Pippin that there "won't be a Shire" unless they do something about it, when King Theoden laments that "the sun has gone down in the West" this film could be entitled not the "Two Towers" but "the Twin Towers". It is Miltonic in its scope. It is cinema as art.

Yes, one may quibble about certain Entish details, and I know that the Elves weren't supposed to be at Helm's Deem, and that Faramir is a little undeveloped, but does this matter? Not at all. The Extended version is better than the original, but does not need to make such a quantum leap as Fellowship managed with its EE. However it will be a film that is seen as a landmark in cinema. A trilogy which may never be bettered. And a reminder of what we are all here for