[Balin999]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> I would say the negative effect of that device is they kind of made Sam look like a real jerk at times in the last movie.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I guess that was done to show the effects of the ring. there is this scene in TTT (well, of course in TTT) where Frodo asks Sam why he always shouts at Gollum. Sam replies that he is a wicked creature and all that and then Frodo tells him that he doesn't understand at all what it's like to carry the ring. I'm not sure if that was in the books, but by that they have shown that Frodo understands Gollum more than Sam and therefore pities him. <P>Well I have never said that I didn't like Gollum at all. In the books I felt sorry for him, though I was always suspicious, and we all know how the story ended <BR>When I saw Gollum in the movies I nearly started crying (and usually I don't cry in movies) because I was overwhelmed with the way he was portrayed. <BR>And of course I thought it was funny when he said "stupid fat hobbit" and danced around or especially the look he gives Frodo and Sam when he tries to catch that fish (the scene where Andy Serkis had to swim or paddle through that ice-cold water).<BR>But I never thought that he was "sweet". Now, after reading through this discussion, I have to admit that I was a bit "hasty" and couldn't imagine that any book-reader could find him sweet. I just saw it as a danger that movie-goers could missunderstand the whole character of Gollum.<BR>But, of course, we will teach them in RotK, my precious, we will! *gollum*<BR>(Btw, I love that sound that Andy Serkis does in the English-version. It sounds really crappy in the German version)