I’m old enough to remember the discourse when this movie came out, and it confused everyone into thinking it was a movie about 9/11 symbolism because it was called the two towers. I still remember seeing the news stories on Good Morning America, and the Today Show. With them reporting on how people thinking it was a movie about 9/11 because it was called, the two towers. But back then, they were still calling it the “terrorist attacks of September 11th, where 2 planes flew in the the twins towers at the world trade center.” The term 9/11 hadn’t caught on yet.
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It’s an effective decision for sure. I know the vid says it’s not going to talk about the book, but I think it’s worth noting that Tolkien’s book, The Two Towers, is essentially two books published in a single volume.
People call The Lord of the Rings (book) a ‘trilogy’ but really it’s 6 books published in 3 volumes (and later, a single one). The middle volume, The Two Towers, is the one that doesn’t really work as a ‘whole’, because its two halves are entirely separate, linked only by the symbolic towers mentioned in the title.
The films however genuinely are a trilogy, and each third needed to be a ‘whole’, and so this interleaving of plotlines worked well.
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I’m old enough to remember the discourse when this movie came out, and it confused everyone into thinking it was a movie about 9/11 symbolism because it was called the two towers. I still remember seeing the news stories on Good Morning America, and the Today Show. With them reporting on how people thinking it was a movie about 9/11 because it was called, the two towers. But back then, they were still calling it the “terrorist attacks of September 11th, where 2 planes flew in the the twins towers at the world trade center.” The term 9/11 hadn’t caught on yet.
It’s an effective decision for sure. I know the vid says it’s not going to talk about the book, but I think it’s worth noting that Tolkien’s book, The Two Towers, is essentially two books published in a single volume.
People call The Lord of the Rings (book) a ‘trilogy’ but really it’s 6 books published in 3 volumes (and later, a single one). The middle volume, The Two Towers, is the one that doesn’t really work as a ‘whole’, because its two halves are entirely separate, linked only by the symbolic towers mentioned in the title.
The films however genuinely are a trilogy, and each third needed to be a ‘whole’, and so this interleaving of plotlines worked well.