one word: EPIC
It was so great.
I've seen that movie now for the umphtienth time - and yesterday evening there was music I've never heard before
The movie was in english with german subtitles, but the voices were not turned up, so the music, which is usually in the background, came forward as a huge symphony.
And there are really very few scenes without music. It was great to see the metal clashing come to live, whenever the orc-theme was played.
The Rohan theme lead by a single violin was so lovely.
I can't even say which part I liked best, as everything was so awesome. But really outstanding was a young boy from the Prague children's choir, who did the high vocal voice - e.g. in the scene when Gandalf and Eomer charge at Helms Deep.
They had a young woman who sang the elvish part - in the scene where Brego wakes Aragorn - and she also sang Gollum's song at the end. Well, it wasn't Emilia Torrini, but she came rather close
The musicians weren't from Munich - these had done FotR last year - but yesterday it was the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Pilsen (Czech Republic), led by David Reitz (from Switzerland) - he was quite exciting to watch - like :
The choirs were the Charles University Chorus from Prague - students - and a small Children's choir, also from Prague.
When the chorus did some whispering in the dead marshes, that was also a yet unheard thing for me...
I will have to watch TTT again, this time paying much more attention to the music and the things I heard yesterday for the first time.
It really was a great experience, I think it will make a difference to how I watch the movies now - And I'm definitly going and watch RotK next year. Yay! Especially as it was a special feeling to see the movie on a big screen again :swoon:
Though it was the normal version, not the extended - which is a bit awkward, after being used to watching the extended version - one always waits for something that never shows up, but one has to take what one gets
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(And I still don't like Faramir osgiliating...
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