Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 23:22:22 12/20/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 01:30:33, Matt Taylor wrote: >On December 20, 2002 at 14:44:55, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On December 20, 2002 at 11:21:51, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >> >>>And people who have not seen it should also read the negative opinions about it. >> >>I couldn't agree more. The problem is that you haven't actually seen "The Two >>Towers" or so I gather. >> >>Regards, >>Mogens > >You mean that you haven't read the books. > >I had to agree with my friends after we walked out of the movie at 7 PM on the >release day. Even if you hadn't read the books, there were inconsistencies, but >it was a good story, and the CGI is beyond reproach. If you have read the books, >you're in for a sore disappointment. The characters you -thought- you knew have >been butchered. I remember Faramir as a very respectable guy. The Faramir I saw >on screen was just as short-sighted and arrogant as Boromir. I wouldn't go so far as to use the words 'sore disappointment'. You have to think of this in terms of a film, which is necessarily much abridged in content from the book. Every single other human that knows about the ring is tempted by it at one point or another. If Faramir, knowing his situation, didn't exhibit this in the film, it would probably seem highly strange to many viewers. It could also be very boring, for the hobbits to just meet Faramir, who finds out about the ring, and then merrily lets them go along their way. What works wonderfully in writing doesn't necessarily translate well directly to film. While I think they could have done better with Faramir, I'm not going to decry the changes they made in that regard. I think they were somewhat necessary in the context of film.
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