While “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” is broadcast this Monday evening on TMC, focus on director Peter Jackson’s brilliant idea to circumvent censorship when it came to putting bloody scenes on the screen.
For his cult Lord of the Rings trilogy, director Peter Jackson often used little tricks to get his way, like making Gandalf look bigger than Frodo or making Boromir really dead in the picture. While The Two Towers, the second part of the franchise, is broadcast this Monday evening on TMC, focus on another idea from the New Zealander, implemented so as not to attract the wrath of censorship.
The Lord of the Rings saga has many fights with particularly bloody scenes. In order to avoid too severe a classification which would have been detrimental to the career of films at the box office, Peter Jackson therefore opted for an effective solution: discard the idea of red blood and give black blood to the evil creatures of Sauron and Saruman, whether Orcs, Goblins and other Uruk-hai.
In the end, the fierce fights of the Lord of the Rings are less “bloody” visually with this black blood, in particular the battle of Helm’s Deep in The Two Games.bear. And Peter Jackson has won his bet, the three films having been released in theaters with the very advantageous PG-13 classification, which “just” strongly recommends an acsupport for children under 13 years old, some images may not suit them.
For the little anecdote, we will finally note that Peter Jackson asked the actors playing the Orcs to make liquorice mouthwashes before the shots. This is to give blackness to the “mouths” of these frightening creatures.
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