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| Re: You mean, "LoTR: The Prequel" *OT* | |
| Posted By: Beckx | Date: 12/21/11 1:35 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: You mean, "LoTR: The Prequel" *OT* (Urban Reflex) : I can understand where you're coming from. The thing is though, neither The : Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings could translate directly into film and : still be any good. They're very much fine examples of story telling in : book form, and that can rarely go unaltered when making the transition to : film. : The way I look at it is just to take them for what they are, the books are
I think there's a major difference between deleting material or altering the presentation of material for film, and adding in new material created by the director. The former is essential to bring the book to film. For example, there's no way to deal with everything about the Firebolt in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The latter - making up new things because you think you can do it better - is not required. In my opinion, the re-write of Faramir in TTT is equivalent to making Hagrid kill Dumbledore. Does that make sense? I think you could film Aragorn's rescue of Minas Tirith as written and it would be a great movie. You don't need a magical Deus Ex Machina army of green ghosts to sweep in. Thus my conflict: the Siege of Minas Tirith is so brilliantly portrayed, right up until the point where Jackson ruins it with Scooby Doo ghosts - ghosts that are all the more out of place because of the great pains Tolkien took to point out that they have no power.
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