Re: OT: Two Towers movie

In a message dated 8/29/2003 2:38:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jaspax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:


>Personally, I wanted to see more ents, and I couldn't figure out why they
>changed Faramir's character so much. Other than that, the changes were
>defensible and mostly inconsequential.

I think there was a good reason to change Faramir.  In the book, he declares
that he wouldn't take the Ring even if he found it lying by the side of the
road. (I'm paraphrasing from memory).  This works well enough in a long book,
but in the much more rushed context of the movie this would destroy the
filmmakers' attempt to build up the Ring as a dangerous temptation that must be
destroyed.  They can't afford to have characters who are immune to the Ring's lure;
that would just render other characters' temptation, and Frodo's final
succumbing to that temptation, incomprehensible to the audience.  (That was one good
reason to cut Bombadil too.  Galadriel's rejection of the Ring is left in, and
that works because she was sorely tempted.  But the scene was poorly done.)

To cram a 3-volume book into a 3-movie series, you've got to simplify.

ObConlang: I was glad they put some Sindarin dialog in the movie, though I
understand its accuracy has been nitpicked.  It was a worthy effort.

Doug