How to Film an Epic Battle
At just over 38 minutes, the Battle of Helm's Deep in the The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is one of the longest battle sequences in film. Keeping an audience's attention for that long takes some doing, even if the scene is an epic fight. Nerdwriter looks at how cinematography and pacing come together to make one of the best clashes between good and evil to grace the silver screen.