And I'm imagining Hitchcock filming the stairs of Cirith Ungol ... when Sam, alone in the Orc Tower, goes searching for Frodo. Darkness, silence, bloody corpses everywhere, and then a blood-curdling shriek from the Tower above ... Gives me chills to think about it!
Semprini wrote: I myself have some issues with Moria similar to some of Ms. Croft article's, but I think that PJ did overall a good job with Moria. My biggest issue concerning dark tunnels in PJ's film is with Shelob's lair and the POTD where PJ did not make the right stylistical choices IMO (in particular, Shelob's lair should have been pitch black, and POTD should not have been a horror film parody). Hitchcock's directing either of these sequences would have been fabulous.
I dislike the Paths of the Dead in the EE, I'm afraid. It's bearable in the TE, but the EE ... That skull avalanche. Sheeeeeeeeesh. Such a bad choice, stylistically, in the very last part of the trilogy. This is Tolkien, PJ, not Indiana Jones ...
I do love Moria though. One of the best sequences in the entire film trilogy. And the Balrog is superb, as are the Fellowship's reactions.