The Taming of Faramir

[The Only Real Estel]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Even in the Book, other threads have pointed out how Faramir's conversion and enlightenment is not quite so immediate or clearcut as some would like to recall. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Well, the main complaints (certainly from me) seem to be coming from him taking the hobbits to Osgiliath & then letting them go for no apparent reason, <I>not</I> complaints of his initial response.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> It also reflects, for better or worse the filmmaker's desire to make the most of the special effects that they've created, and their somewhat overweening drive to dramatize or melodramatize everything to the unth degree.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That is quite true, although that's certainly not a reason for PJ to do it, he already had so many other 'doctored' up scenes it wouldn't fly to say you put it in for the special effects. I do think that the EE helped Faramir, but I don't think that it has saved/redeemed him as much as people would like to think...<p>[ November 22, 2003: Message edited by: The Only Real Estel ]