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Originally Posted by Essex
in my honest view you shouldn't criticise a particular movie scene against the book unless you have an alternative. just to say a scene is rubbish is not really much of a statement
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I agree that it is preferable to have an alternative, but the matter of fact is that PJ chose to make his interpretation of LotR. When he do so, I and everybody else has the right to criticise the interpretation. We did not chose to make our interpretation, therefore you cannot ask of us to have an alternative way to make the scene.
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Originally Posted by Essex
to say WHY it was rubbish at least takes you part way to coming up with an alternative and I must concede that at least this is better than just saying 'it's useless'
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Agreed
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Originally Posted by Essex
I always find myself fighting the corner for the movie makers because of the constant bad press the movie gets from quite a few avid book readers. For me the films will never beat the books, but they are still 3 of the best movies ever made. The filmakers make bad decisions, but at least in some ocasions in the commentary they try to explain their reasoning behind the 'changes' - some I agree with some I do not, but I still try to see it from a movie maker's perspective.
this is the main thing I've learnt about movie adaptation over the past few years critiquing the movies on this site - its given me a broader view of what issues/problems movie makers have with adaptations.
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It never hurts to see it from the movie makers perspective. . . I try to do so. But I do not accept all changes the movies, just because it would be difficult to make them work on film.
When you make a book into a movie, then you should try very hard to be true to it. If you just make changes when it becomes difficult, then what is the point in making the movie.
I believe that everybody is entitled to having an opinion about the films and to state this. Even if they don’t have the faintest Idea about how to make a movie and what works well in a book, but is rubbish in a movie.
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