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12-31-2001, 09:31 AM

To Unigolyn:<P>In response to your comments about my comments on character development...you are certainly right...about one thing: Character development does mostly depend on the writer. But you are wrong about this: the writer of THIS script was NOT JRRT. I was not critiquing the book; I was critiquing the movie. And if you haven't noticed, they are quite different. It would be nearly impossible to compare the character development in the book to that of the movie. When I said that the character development was lacking, I was speaking strictly about the movie. I thought that ws plainly clear.<BR>It would be a HUGE stretch to take a comment about the characters in a movie and generalize that comment to apply to the book--in fact, it would be falacious!<P>P.S. I never blamed the lack of character development on the actors.<p>[ December 31, 2001: Message edited by: Rhudladion ]

12-31-2001, 09:31 AM	#36
rhudladion Guest Posts: n/a	To Unigolyn:<P>In response to your comments about my comments on character development...you are certainly right...about one thing: Character development does mostly depend on the writer. But you are wrong about this: the writer of THIS script was NOT JRRT. I was not critiquing the book; I was critiquing the movie. And if you haven't noticed, they are quite different. It would be nearly impossible to compare the character development in the book to that of the movie. When I said that the character development was lacking, I was speaking strictly about the movie. I thought that ws plainly clear.<BR>It would be a HUGE stretch to take a comment about the characters in a movie and generalize that comment to apply to the book--in fact, it would be falacious!<P>P.S. I never blamed the lack of character development on the actors.<p>[ December 31, 2001: Message edited by: Rhudladion ]