Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 23:35:29 12/20/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 02:22:22, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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. In other words, Faramir wasn't dramatic enough in the book, so they had to make him more so in the movie. The argument that they have to clip things to shorten the movie is crap when you consider how much fluff they add. Aragorn falling off the cliff was downright cheesy. Upplaying the scenes between Aragorn and Arwen was also silly. They're just setting up to make the ending ultradramatic. They may as well have just clipped it. When I look back at all the changes, they really point me to one conclusion: the book was too boring, so the movie was made more exciting by changing things. They didn't spend much time thinking about what they were doing or they might have realized that they already told the audience that Ents don't make up their minds in a few seconds. Having Treebeard decide to call all the Ents on a whim was pretty silly, but it was dramatic, just like all the other changes. -Matt
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