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...right here! Like a parent reading his kids their favorite story, Peter Jackson begins the second enthrallment in his version of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy just about where The Fellowship of the Ring left off. It's a literal cliff-hanger: the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) clinging to a precipice and falling--to his doom? And now, on with the story...
...nowadays lesson plans are based on The Gospel According to the Simpsons, in which Homer stands in as Job, and The Gospel According to Harry Potter, in which the boy wizard's decision to walk through what appears to be a solid wall to get to the train that will take him to his magical school becomes a meditation on faith. Church facilities have been updated with computer stations for video games like Bible Grand Slam and movie theaters for features like The Creation, narrated by Amy Grant. Teachers are baking unleavened bread as they read Exodus and aiming slingshots...
...brief synopsis of the dozens of major characters introduced a year ago in The Fellowship of the Ring, or of the great quest they are bound to serve or thwart. Instead, director and co-writer Jackson begins Part II with a flashback to a literal cliff-hanger: the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) clinging to a precipice and falling, perhaps to his doom. Then, on with the story! That's how sure of himself Jackson is. His grand notion was always to film the entire trilogy in one gigantic 15-month shoot, and to make of it three separate but seamless...
...recently asked Vaclav Havel" in these articles, letters and speeches. And some shouldn't be here at all - including, truth be told, a moldy piece on independent India's 50th anniversary that I edited for this magazine. But he's brilliant on the real message of The Wizard of Oz , which is that Dorothy's "no place like home" ender is all wrong. After a trip like that, Rushdie insists, you can't go home again: stepping across the line into Oz transformed her into a seeker of the wider world, as all good voyages do. "The journey creates...
...answer is yes, or at least probably. Fellowship was often quiet and deliberately paced. Two Towers is an unabashed action film. Even Ian McKellen, as the wizard Gandalf, does his share of fighting. Those who appreciate the finer points of Tolkien's work may be taken aback by the new film's high-tech grandiosity. "It's impressive," says Two Towers star Viggo Mortensen, "but if you have that much emphasis on special effects, it's unavoidable that you'll lose some of the poetry and intimacy of the story." Still, those who prefer grunting, beastly warriors brandishing scimitars...