The Two Towers

Watched this second installment of the Lord of the Rings movie on DVD tonight with Mom and Mr. B., who had never seen it before. It got very confusing in the middle, until I realized it had been substantially changed from the book. Didn’t seem to bother the boy as much as it annoyed me. Faramir wouldn’t let Frodo go, as he did in the book, but took him to Gondor, instead. At one point Sam asks "What are we doing here, Mr. Frodo?" It was part of a rhetorical speech written for the movie Sam, but it was funny in light of their detour. Perhaps it had to be done to make even a three hour movie, but it’s an example of why I think of movies as far more confining than books. They compress your imagination, rather than releasing it as a good book does.