The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Essay Assignment 1 The movie, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, was a powerful period piece that will continue to stick out among adventure/war movies because of the well-crafted storyline and a strong theme of hope in the face of impossible odds. The sequel to the first movie in the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, the movie picks up following two young hobbits, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, on a quest to destroy the Dark Lord Sauron's’ one true ring of power. When the first movie ends, “The Fellowship”, is broken because Gandalf the Grey is presumed dead and the group splinters. This movie furthers the quest of “Fellowship” to destroy the ring and each “splinter” has their own objective to help defeat Sauron. The first group

After learning that the two had escaped into Fangorn Forest, a forest filled with walking trees (Ents), they find Gandalf the Grey (now Gandalf the White) who tells them of an army of 10,000 uruk-hai and they must ride to Rohan for help. After Merry and Pippin enter Fangorn Forest, they befriend an Ent and attempt to sway him and his fellow Ents to help mankind fight the armies of Sauron or man will surely fall. This film jumps into the action, leaving those who are uncertain of the details of the first movie a bit out of the loop so watching this trilogy in order is highly recommended. The director, Peter Jackson, packs this movie with huge

The Telegraph had only negative things to say about this movie. The writer, Sarah Sands, says, “I imagine that when male critics say they feel "emotionally rewarded" or even "worshipful" towards this film, it may be because men do rather well out of it.” She goes on claiming that the movie is subpar because women are not central to fighting scenes and specifically says, “ Liv Tyler floats off accompanied by folk music, and a spirited, if anemic, Blonde princess who takes a fancy to the warrior Aragorn (cue sword-play) is dispatched to a back passage with all the other toothless old women and grubby children.” More than once in this film the women are protected by men because they cannot fight, they are not put on the field of battle because traditionally they did not learn to fight. It is overwhelmingly obvious that her writing was not objective and did not enjoy the film because women were not the main subject of the film. She continues berating the film even saying, “Who are these hideous, alien races with terrible teeth? And what do walking trees have to do with it?” The film presents the Ents as an ally to man because Sauron would destroy all that is green and good as stated in the film. Orcs are presented in a black color and horrid appearance to portray this darkness (lighting is key to portray the advance of evil in this film) taking over and the odds the world of man faced as