A Long Expected Party -- The Movie - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

galpsi · 09-09-2000, 10:29 PM

Re: A Long Expected Party -- The Movie This is not so hard. Cut the presents; they aren't important. Personalities (especially the Sackville-Bs) can be established at the party. So can any necessary back-story; it can just be spoken by someone. This is stock dramaturgy. The main expository fill-in can occur in the hobbit-hole after the vanishing. Lot's of charm has got to go; no time. What's essential? You've got to make the Shire sympathetic so we care at the end, you've got to establish a few characters and a little situation. That's it. It will occupy more than 6 minutes. Others things will give way. There's too much walking around in the first book and lots of it will be condensed in the movie without great loss to the essential story.

09-09-2000, 10:29 PM	#4
galpsi The Unquiet Dead Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 971	<BR> Re: A Long Expected Party -- The Movie</b><br><br> This is not so hard. Cut the presents; they aren't important. Personalities (especially the Sackville-Bs) can be established at the party. So can any necessary back-story; it can just be spoken by someone. This is stock dramaturgy. The main expository fill-in can occur in the hobbit-hole after the vanishing. Lot's of charm has got to go; no time. What's essential? You've got to make the Shire sympathetic so we care at the end, you've got to establish a few characters and a little situation. That's it. It will occupy more than 6 minutes. Others things will give way. There's too much walking around in the first book and lots of it will be condensed in the movie without great loss to the essential story. <p></p>