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davem · 02-21-2003, 04:07 AM

Iarwain, as the one who set this thread off, can I just say that I was just expressing my honest feelings about the movies - specifically Towers. The fact that this thread has continued so long surely means it has struck a chord, & still does, with a lot of people.<BR>The film makers have gone to a lot of effort to tie in their movies to the book - the DVD se is packaged to look like the book, the menus are laid out like pages from the book, Peter Jackson says on the appendix disc that this 'isn't our movie, its Tolkien's movie. In every way they've tried to imply that they're putting the book on the screen. So, they're either lying or stupid, because its not the book up there. <BR>There are any number of fantasy novels out there which they could have adapted, or they could have written an original screenplay, but they chose to do LotR, which as far as I'm concerned, obliges them to retain at least the spirit of the characters & the book, not to play fast & loose with them to the extent that the story becomes totally different to Tolkien's.<BR>Anyway, when interest in this thread dies it will come to an end naturally.

02-21-2003, 04:07 AM	#23
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	Iarwain, as the one who set this thread off, can I just say that I was just expressing my honest feelings about the movies - specifically Towers. The fact that this thread has continued so long surely means it has struck a chord, & still does, with a lot of people.<BR>The film makers have gone to a lot of effort to tie in their movies to the book - the DVD se is packaged to look like the book, the menus are laid out like pages from the book, Peter Jackson says on the appendix disc that this 'isn't our movie, its Tolkien's movie. In every way they've tried to imply that they're putting the book on the screen. So, they're either lying or stupid, because its not the book up there. <BR>There are any number of fantasy novels out there which they could have adapted, or they could have written an original screenplay, but they chose to do LotR, which as far as I'm concerned, obliges them to retain at least the spirit of the characters & the book, not to play fast & loose with them to the extent that the story becomes totally different to Tolkien's.<BR>Anyway, when interest in this thread dies it will come to an end naturally. __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."