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Essex · 09-10-2006, 02:44 PM

yes, you need to be tru to the book as possible. But let's take the first Harry Potter movie as an example.

Almost exactly the same as the book (but abridged of course) - and in my opinion the movie suffers greatly because it's a lift and shift from the book.

My answer to this criticism is that they should have made it more like the last couple of movies that were much more entertaining (in my opinion)

I would love to try a lift and shift from the lotr books to a visual mode. But this would require 54 hours of work (ive taken that from the amount of time the audio unabridged version is)

that is impossible in 3 movies. So what should we do - cut huge swathes of the story out or abridge it and try to stay true to the story?

In the vast majority of cases, the movie makers got it right. yes, there are a few occasions where I grimace (mainly at how they show gimli esp in rotk) - then I say they did a marvellous job.

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09-10-2006, 02:44 PM	#22
Essex Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 886	yes, you need to be tru to the book as possible. But let's take the first Harry Potter movie as an example. Almost exactly the same as the book (but abridged of course) - and in my opinion the movie suffers greatly because it's a lift and shift from the book. My answer to this criticism is that they should have made it more like the last couple of movies that were much more entertaining (in my opinion) I would love to try a lift and shift from the lotr books to a visual mode. But this would require 54 hours of work (ive taken that from the amount of time the audio unabridged version is) that is impossible in 3 movies. So what should we do - cut huge swathes of the story out or abridge it and try to stay true to the story? In the vast majority of cases, the movie makers got it right. yes, there are a few occasions where I grimace (mainly at how they show gimli esp in rotk) - then I say they did a marvellous job.