Werde Spinner
Rohan
Oct 11 2013, 8:30pm
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(1) Faramir is attacking from the left to the right. If I recall a bit of cinematic commentary I read somewhere, film makers like to show characters moving from left to right on screen to denote action. Passive characters stand on the right, facing their doom (or whatever) coming from the left. This emphasis on Faramir in action further outlines him as the hero and the protector of his men. I think it works. (2) To me, Faramir shows a lot of fierce determination - the desire to save his men, to get them back to Minas Tirith in one piece, to protect his City against the legions of orcs. He also looks a bit angry, and I can't blame him. You'd be angry too if orcs attacked in the morning before you'd even had your first cup of coffee. (3) What's with the dudes in the background? The one in the yellowish shirt... is that an orc or a Gondorian or what? I am mightily confused. The clothes look like something out of the American Civil War almost (Southern side), not like the rags you'd expect an orc to run around in. I obviously need to rewatch my EE ROTK.
"I had forgotten that. It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and Dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that was broken in the long ages ere the fathers of our fathers rode into the Mark! How shall a man judge what to do in such times?" "As he ever has judged. Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."
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