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Cutting Room Floor Action Sequences LOTR (culled from e-mails)

by Fran

Lord Of The Rings Tape No. V429z0

Eowyn gets her shirt ripped and angrily starts heaving massive stones over her head boobs exposed from a promonitory in a blood-curdling vengeance with the wind blowing wildly in her hair and has visions of the moons of middle earth covered in blood.

Lord Of The Rings Tape No. V815c1

The Elven warriors who show up at Helm's Deep. Instead, they show up fashionably late to the sound of a base guitar instead of a blast of a horn. They are all these young, strapping euro-boys pale as addicts but strikingly cut, who when angered in the battle, suddenly grow vampire teeth and bite into the orcii necks stripping off their shirts. They start speaking in transylvanian accents.

Then there proceeds a sort of homoerotic trasfer of elven vampire blood by sucking on each others arms and dripping blood into each other's mouths, sneering in pain and pleasure and writhing. Whereupon the orcii turn into strapping, euro-boys who in turn pounce on the nearest orcii. They use vampire telepathy to help each other fend off any orcii so unlucky as to venture between elven-turned-vampire and orcii victim. They also have those mercury-lamp retinal reflections in the firelight.

All to goth rock.

Lord Of The Rings Tape No. V156b1

The trombones are sighing... sighing...

Its dark, the roads are glistening but it is actually not raining. The face has some skin ripped away. He puts his sunglasses back on. He is speaking in latin coughing up limbs. In the background sky the black hole of middle earth swirls olaginously.

With a chorus of sighing trombones in the background, and wearing ubiquitous sunglasses, the terminator could be standing there -surrounded by silently lapping flames with the maelstrom of orcii around him laconically and dryly speaking in la-a-atin coughing up limbs, getting his sunglasses knocked off, removing his eyeballs and laying flat hecatombs of orcii, punching multitudinous holes in shields with armour piercing shells from a massive brushed-steel gattling gun. When he takes his eyes out, it does not interrupt the visual targetting system. He actually makes the eyes look at one another and then sticks them somewheres safe.

It does happen that he gets impaled, but a screen appears to indicate "alternative" and he switches on once more, uncaringly swivelling about, somewhat oblivious to damage but obviously crimped, speaking latin with a german accent and coughing up limbs.

And the trombones keep sighing... sighing...

Lord Of The Rings Tape No. V156b2

It's the slickened parking garage under Helm's Deep, where if you die, nobody notices much and the police just take it as a matter of course that this is where corpses are surreptitiously stumbled over and retrieved and chalk marks are all that's left.

The flames lapped silently around the feet.

"Libera-a- a-te-meh" "Sa-a-a-alva-a-ate libera-a-a-te ex infiris"

*Gurk-gurgle* Another limb gets coughed up, but notice the disturbing fact that there are no eyeballs, reflected by the shadowed-hollows created by the flash of gattling.

They are at the end of the gattling unit atop the end-sight. Inside the eyeballs, there is obviously a line image-overlay of targetting, but a pictorial underlay of grim, grainy video images with poor horizontal resolution-control depicting sado-masochistic horrors of.... sheesh! You just don't want to see that. Somewhere a woman laughs manaicially.

"Sa-a-a-alva-a-ate libera-a-a-te ex infiris" *cough* *gurk* (A limb. where they come from is not disclosed). Br-r-r-rt/ actually the feed of bullets is more like B-z-z-z-t! (So many) Hollows. Eyes on gun sight. Not a flicker of effort on the face, except dirty smudges.

Meanwhile, the ship which up until this time we had forgotten is miles away orbiting but appearing to flow through clouds like a pendulous dirigible reminiscent of heavy-gun normandy pill-box architecture hanging impossibly perilously over a fascinating gravitational quagmire. A requisite flash of lighting for reality because of friction. Then inside, the horror engine of darkness flips on all of its lights and rolls over with astrological significance. The skinny ghost-wives have black eyes and look like they have spent several weeks in a bathtub.

That's when a lengthy introduction of "Never Never Land" slowly chimes in. Trombones fade.

Trolls appear controlled by heavy chains in the parking garage stomping into view. They manage to carry off a pillar or two and some '70s era cars in different colours like beige, (a truly horrible colour under florescent lighting), pale olive and burgundy scattering hubcaps flipping them and concrete detritus causing the requisite booming din through the theatre subwoofers.

"You will feel the wroth of Uhrukhai Trolls, man-meat-machine" OOh-Rawaowrrrr!! You can see their smeg-for-breath in the cool of the parking garage of Helm's Deep.

The flying concrete pieces carry off the terminator's arm, dropping the expended gun. Recognizing his predicament, he plucks his eyes back into his head and looks down to his stomach, where he opens a hatch and draws out an emitter.

It is a gorgeous in design and obviously Japanese or something, with the most tasteful, unobstrusive, but purposeful appearance. He barely has time to deftly flick the switch before the Trolls are upon him, cleaning him of flesh. The emitter clatters along the floor several meters. Funny how the floor is now dry.

The terminator explodes with a brilliant flash, the instantaneous bright rays catching in the dust up from beside the Trolls heads before all is blown asunder. It is obviously some kind of low-yield nuclear, somewhat like the dangerous hand grenades on old-gen Star Trek. The totality of the flesh in the immediate vicinity of ground zero (a space of a few dozen meters) is sprayed with scabrous flesh, all over walls, cielings, cars, etc. The parking garage was made by Dwarves, no doubt because it is still standing.

The tune "Never Never Land" is playing louder now, but still in introduction.

Near to the emitter now emitting a solitary green glow, four glowing orbs appear and cut parts of decimated cars and a bit of the floor.

Out of the four glowing globes appear four hafling-hobbitinators.

Yes. They are naked. With hairy feet. And black.

They all look like four feet tall actors, they are all Lawrence Fishburne totally non-plussed, buff, and about to say something really choice.

They all laconically, dryly swear like sailors in unison using customary street vernacular for impending violence with a velvety german accent. They pick up leather jackets, sunglasses and black jeans from the smashed-open trunks of cars. .........And Glocks. But no shoes.

The ship is also now in close. Low altitude orbit.

Steve Buscemi comes out of the stairway looking for his car and freaks out, with his usual facial contortions and totally suburban whining.

Was the outcome ever in question?

"Never Never Land" is rocking steady...