Whats the difference between \The Two Towers\ and \Fellowship\?
”The Two Towers” was much, much harder because of the simple fact that ”Fellowship” was a linear story. It started with Frodo and followed him all the way through. The decisions were simple: What do you leave in and what do you cut out? You didn’t change the order of things; you just kind of followed the plot. In this film, because we have three different plot lines branching out, we had a lot of flexibility over how long we stayed with a particular plot before cutting to the other one. For example, in the last cut, [the CG creature] Gollum appears in the second scene of the film. But we did edits earlier this year where he didn’t appear for half an hour. It was much more fun and much more of a creative exercise this year. What was the most painful thing to cut from this one? Not a great deal was cut. There’s not very much [extra footage] with Frodo and Sam because there’s so much of Gollum in each of their scenes, and because those shots are so difficult to do, you don’t really do
