here is something a beautiful friend of mine passed me few dayz ago, and you can find it on Opeth forum (which I can't follow, and so I post it here, for the ones who can't or don't want)
sooooooooooooo it's completely copied from there, not mine!!!
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LOTR dream cut
This was taken from the Tolkien Online messageboards:
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I've just spoken to a good friend of mine who worked on FOTR as a stunt man, and he had a lot to do with stunt co- ordination. Heres what he had to say on the film's 3 hour cut.
-He told me he was extremely disappointed because 75% of all the stunts they did were cut(due to graphic content). Apparently, at least 3 mins of the Amon Hen battle was cut, including numerous decapitations, high falls and stabbings.
- Most of the violent shots cut out at Amon Hen involved Gimli and Legolas.
- We only saw the opening and closing of Aragorn's battle against the 40 Uruks. The really violent stuff in the middle was cut.
- A sequence of Gimili chopping heads in Moira was cut.
- The most violent shots of Legolas' archery were cut, including a shot at Amon Hen where he pins two Uruks heads together with one arrow.
- Wizards duel, slightly cut. But apparently the angles that were selected de-emphasised the graphic nature of the battle.
Notice how Gandalf was bleeding more than was warranted? Apparently there are a lot more wide shots of the impacts. as well as more shots involving an actual staff fight,and not just spells.
p.s that's Ian Mckellen spinning on the ground, not a stuntman.
- In terms of drama, a lot of Gimili and Legolas' scenes were cut involving their developing friendship. As well as scenes between Gandalf and Aragorn. Also more bits of Boromir slowly cracking.
- At least 30 mins total was cut from Rivendell and Lothlorien. Including the giving of the gifts.
- 1-2mins of the prologue were cut. Most of the shots were of Gil Galad and Elendil annihilating orcs. But also cut were their 'alternate' death scenes. This is after a one on one battle with Sauron. My friend knows this because he was in this scene and had a single line of dialogue, responding to an order from Gil Galad. This indicates that there was dialogue and character interaction in the prologue. Also cut was a sequence of elf bowmen firing thousands of arrows at the charging orcs.
- Finally, PJ's original 'final cut' was 4hrs.45mins - described as his Dream Cut. This was in turn cut under orders from New Line to a little under 4 hours. The rest of the stuff cut from this version, thus making the present 3 hour cut, was the above mentioned blood guts as well as more battle stuff and drama. The good money, I am told, is on PJ's 'dream version being released as an alternate dvd in the future. But more than likely not on the official dvd
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so once the official cut is marketed to death we'll probably see a director's cut with added dialogue and battle scenes and a higher age certificate
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DVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVDVD!!!!!!
FatherVic (dvd dvd???? dvdvvdvdvddvd!!!!!!!)
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