There was one which showed Frodo and Sam, early in the
story, watching a procession of elves passing through a wood on their way to
going somewhere out west (I’m hoping the extended version will also explain the
‘somewhere out west’ thing a bit better.) It’s a lovely scene with a mystical
air, and I wondered why the studio had cut it for the standard version. I
decided it was because they thought it expendable in terms of the plot, and that
bothers me a bit.
Ever since the polarity of my brain started shifting from
left to right at around age thirty, I’ve tended to favour style over content in
cinema and theatre. It seems to me that plot is all about making factual
connections between characters, events and circumstances, even when the plot is
psychological in nature, and that means it’s fundamentally a left brain feature.
Style, on the other hand, is about aesthetics, and that makes it right brained.
I suppose that’s why I can drool over form, colour and
atmosphere these days, whilst finding complex plots insufferably tedious.
Alternatively, it could just be that my IQ is plummeting.
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