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Well, it's got more than any DVD set you've ever seen, or probably will ever again.
Here's a NY Times article talking about it...and go read the reviews. Even if you're not hardcore, you've got to be curious. You can get it for less than 50 bucks, I'm certain some high-volume retailers/online sites will run specials.
Since I got my theatrical version a a gift, I don't mind shelling out the bucks this time around...
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Once More Around With 'The Rings'
By PETER M. NICHOLS
f there's such a thing as the perfect DVD movie, it has to be "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." On Tuesday New Line is to release two four-disc special editions only three months after issuing a basic two-disc DVD in August. This time Peter Jackson's film has been lengthened by 30 minutes in a "platinum edition" ($39.99) loaded with 30 hours of features and a "collector's DVD gift set" with even more extras and upgraded packaging ($79.92).
Of course, distributors never object to selling a film over again in expanded forms, and given the zealousness of J. R. R. Tolkien fans and an ocean of behind-the-scenes material, few films lend themselves better than "The Fellowship." Also, prospects of the first "Rings" sequel, "The Two Towers," opening in theaters next month, attract those looking to gear up.
Advance orders of the new "Fellowship" DVD's put them in the No. 1 and No. 5 spots on the Amazon best-seller list. In between are "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones," also to be released next week; "Spider-Man," which sold a record 11 million copies last weekend, 8.5 million of them on DVD; and "Band of Brothers," the HBO mini-series released on Tuesday.
With "Fellowship" we get a sense of filmmakers working on the DVD in conjunction with shooting the movie, or in this case three movies shot at once in New Zealand. (The third "Rings" film, "The Return of the King," is to be released in theaters next year.) In a commentary Mr. Jackson explains the additions, which include several full scenes and bits stirred in throughout. Together they stretch the running time to a whopping 208 minutes, but the extra length is absorbed more easily on video than in theaters, where audiences reach a limit.
Mr. Jackson's two co-writers, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, join him for the commentary, one of four on the first two discs. A thousand pages of Tolkien on screen obviously needed constant squeezing and shaping. Exposition couldn't come at the expense of narrative tension and character growth. The studio wanted two minutes allotted to the prologue. Mr. Jackson took seven and a half minutes, but his goal always was momentum. "There's only so much time you can spend establishing," he says.
Here the filmmakers put some of it back, to generally pleasing effect. Additions aim to flesh out relationships between characters. Once the three writers found what they call a code to Tolkien's trilogy, they could adapt it to the films and, having hit on a scheme, bend the films back toward the books.
Mr. Jackson rejects the term "director's cut." He says the shorter theatrical version is his film, and he's glad people can now see what he calls the extended theatrical version. But doesn't that make two theatrical versions? In any event, one of several tasks he was involved with this week in New Zealand was extending "The Two Towers" for its DVD special edition, expected about this time next year.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." |
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