Re: OT: Two Towers movie

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From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:31 PM
Subject: OT: Two Towers movie


> > Ian,
> >
> > Thanks for the laugh.  My husband and I are still trying to get over our
> > disappointment over the many very poor choices made in the movie of the
Two
> > Towers.
>
>
> Curious--what choices would those be? Overall, I'm still a great fan of
> the films, though Two Towers diverged from it source much more than
> Fellowship.
>
> 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 agree completely.  I'm willing to forgive pretty much any changes simply
because it's a bloody good film.  It sometimes really irritates me the way
people get all sniffy about a film because it diverges slightly from a book.
Having said that,  I think it could have been better if Faramir's character
had been left intact.  I have found, however, that they have tended to take
some of Tolkien's words a little too literally, as seen in the 'exorcism'
scene, and the Galadriel scene in FOTR.