The Best Adaptions

[alatar]

Originally Posted by MatthewM

And to alatar...as you might already know, I wholeheartedly disagree with your statement that movie Boromir is "better" than book Boromir. There is only one Boromir, and that is the one that Tolkien created. All of the characters in the films were merely adaptions of an untouchable story.

Excellent post, MatthewM! You definitely state how you feel and back up your statements with evidence from the books and movies (alatar wipes a tear from his cheek and mutters, "evidence" like the name of some old long lost love...)

That being said, in my completely subjective opinion, I liked PJ's Boromir better as I could see the man in my head, whereas I never saw Book Boromir as nothing more than an antagonist/outsider and foil for Aragorn/Gandalf. In the movie I could see the character struggle with the Ring, and I was truly sad when he died. The book death wasn't emotive.

Do I like everything about the movie character? Read the SbS and see how I whine and complain more than Frodo in PJ's dreams.

What's truly funny is that I was continually told that I never saw anything good in the movies, and yet when I do...

P.S And I loved Bean's hair, though it wasn't as nice and Prince Charming's in Shrek II.