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Originally Posted by obloquy
Are you suggesting that if, in the course of adapting books to film, the adapter decides that one element requires far too much explication and makes things too complex, and may also not provide the most dramatically pleasing scenarios, then that adapter is obligated to remove his adaptation from the world created by the author?
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This has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the film maker following the story line of a book, accepting it the interpretation of events from the book and then showing them explicitly (we see considerable detail in the resurrection sequence, and also again in Gandalf's encounter with Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas). The implication is that the film maker here is accepting Tolkien's view of things, otherwise why not just make up your own scene altogether. Again, I agree it is legitimate for the film maker to change material from the book, but it strikes one as inconsistent when PJ hews so closely to the Tolkien interpretation early in the film and then suddenly changes things over in the final encounter between Gandalf and the WiKi (there were numerous earlier encounters where Gandalf had no problem dealing with him). If PJ had contributed a reasonable explanation for the reversal of things, then there would be no problem...