A conversation about "The Two Towers", the second film in "The Lord of the Rings" series with the cast and director

with Peter Jackson, Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Wood
in Movies, TV & Theater, Books
on Thursday, December 19, 2002 * * * * *

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A rebroadcast of a conversation with director Peter Jackson and actors Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Wood about the second installment of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Two Towers" (from December 3, 2002).

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Keywords:
Return of the King
Lord of the Rings
elves
Two Towers
Peter Jackson
Viggo Mortensen
film adaptation
wizards
J.R.R. Tolkien
Elijah Wood

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    1. fardawg  03/02/2010 12:30 PM Report

      Sorry for all the posts. The first one was accidentally posted before I was done. Not trying to be a pest.

      I also want to say that one of the reasons many see the anti war protesters as "anti-American" is because their protesting can cause damage to our troops morale and aid the enemy. The same thing happened in Vietnam. It isn't the questioning, it's way in which it's done and the hypocrisy of changing your stance when it becomes unpopular. Many forget that Hillary said the phrase "you are either with us or against us", before Bush did, or that Bill and Gore said Saddam was linked with Terrorism and had WMD's as part of their race against H.W. Bush, and the bombing they did (Operation Desert Fox) at the same time as Bill's impeachment hearing. Three days of bombing and then nothing. What a great strategy! Yep, that really helped our reputation in the Middle East.

    2. fardawg  03/02/2010 12:07 PM Report

      Even if our leaders went in for Oil, the outcome, i.e. a free Iraq, is well worth it to me. As long as good is being done I don't care about the motives of the leaders. What is wrong with protecting a valuable resource from an enemy who would have no problem destroying us and causing economic chaos by disrupting our supply? That alone is a good reason to focus on Nuclear energy, our own Oil production, and other alternatives, but that takes time that we couldn't have afforded. And that's if we did go to war for Oil which I don't believe we did. Even Saddam's own men thought he had WMD's. He did everything to make us believe so.

      Also, what did Viggo think of Clinton bombing Iraq? Which was one of the excuses Saddam used to justify blocking inspections.

      He has every right to question, but that doesn't mean his questions are intelligent or that his motives for asking them are pro American.

    3. fardawg  03/02/2010 11:56 AM Report

      Viggo is a great actor but he needs to ask the people who's mothers and daughters and children were raped and murdered by Saddam and his sons what they think of the Iraq war. How about the families of the men in the government that he had executed when he came to power in order to instill fear in them.

      "Innocent people"? How does he judge that when women and children are shooting at us and blowing themselves up in order to kill us. How much of that is propaganda? "No possibility of being accurate"? The bombing we do is very accurate. Would he rather we charge in with bayonets? War is called Hell for a reason. "Blood for Oil"? Where is the Oil? How does he know this?