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The entire orc attack on Osgiliath sequence is poorly planned and directed. The orcs are meant to be quietly crossing the River Anduin under the cover of darkness to attack the western bank of Osgiliath, yet they have lighted torches on their boats which they don't even need because they operate better in the dark. This makes no sense at all, not even from a film-maker point of view, because there's far more ambient light reflected off the mist around them and the torches add nothing to the shots. As proof of how stupid this is: the first thing visible through the mist as the boats approach the bank? The lit torches. Which would have given the game away immediately if the defenders had been keeping anything like a proper watch. Yet the orcs still manage to make it to shore because for some reason there's only one guard, and he's not even looking at the river until it's too late. He just happens to look out in time to get killed by an arrow. Then it apparently needs Faramir to run over to look at him lying dead with a black orc arrow in his chest before it even occurs to anyone that there's an attack! Sound military reasoning would be to immediately sound the alarm, use arrows to kill as many orcs in the boats as possible, then meet them with a charge on the shoreline to push them back into the water. Yet the men all hide and let half the orcs land before attacking one of them at the back of the crowd. It's no wonder they lost Osgiliath: they simply threw it away. From a military standpoint Denethor's anger at Faramir is completely justified in the film version.

Film

Il Signore degli Anelli - Il ritorno del re (2003)

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