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Old 10-22-2007, 11:02 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by Folwren View Post
Well, maybe, if they had done it davem's way, the movie would have been more popular. If you say that he saying this is pointless and unable to be backed by proof, you implying that his ideas or doing the movie 'his way', as you put it, would not have made the movies better is likewise lacking in proof.

Whatever happened, the movie could not have been WORSE if it had followed the books a little more closely, could it?

-- Folwren
It certainly could. We could have ended up with a grinning hippy in yellow boots or a half an hour Council of non-stop talking. These things may work in text but on film they would not.
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