Book Three and Book Four - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Rose Cotton · 10-12-2003, 08:28 AM

The problem with doing the movie the same way Tolkien did the book is simply that one is a book and one is a movie and the two can't be done in the same fashon well.<P>If the movie had been done like the book it would have given the audience the impression of three seperate adventures instead of one whole story. By the time the movie was over they will have partially forgotten what was happening in the other storylines that ended somewhere in the middle. Not to mention half the audience wouldn't understand the time differences and would assume one story takes place right after the other. <P>You also lose the ability to bring it all together into one climax. They would all have their own seperate climaxes which again divides it all up into three seperate movies.<P>While the seperate story lines was just fine in the books the chonological order in the movies makes it so that each storyline is relevant to all the others. It keeps the viewers intrested.<P>And if you still want to view each adventure seperatly then be thankfull that the books havn't dissapeared off the face of the Earth and we are still able to read them.

10-12-2003, 08:28 AM	#3
Rose Cotton Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: A place worse then Mordor........School! Posts: 1,075	The problem with doing the movie the same way Tolkien did the book is simply that one is a book and one is a movie and the two can't be done in the same fashon well.<P>If the movie had been done like the book it would have given the audience the impression of three seperate adventures instead of one whole story. By the time the movie was over they will have partially forgotten what was happening in the other storylines that ended somewhere in the middle. Not to mention half the audience wouldn't understand the time differences and would assume one story takes place right after the other. <P>You also lose the ability to bring it all together into one climax. They would all have their own seperate climaxes which again divides it all up into three seperate movies.<P>While the seperate story lines was just fine in the books the chonological order in the movies makes it so that each storyline is relevant to all the others. It keeps the viewers intrested.<P>And if you still want to view each adventure seperatly then be thankfull that the books havn't dissapeared off the face of the Earth and we are still able to read them. __________________ "There's nothing you can do, Harry... nothing... he's gone."-Remus Lupin "The closer we are to danger, the further we are from harm."-Pippin (now how can you argue with that logic?)