Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 05:22:44 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 02:35:29, Matt Taylor wrote: >On December 21, 2002 at 02:22:22, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >> >>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. > Exactly my opinion. >In other words, Faramir wasn't dramatic enough in the book, so they had to make >him more so in the movie. > Exactly. Is that a bad thing in itself? >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. Because you've read the books. It works great in the film. > 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 Are you sure? Have you watched the documentary on the extended FOTR? In there, you get many many elaborate considerations about why something was left out, added or changed. All of it makes sense. >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. > So? This is a movie. /David
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