Why Can't Movies Be Like Books?

[Annatar]

Originally Posted by davem

Sam had it on him & wasn't possessed, or corrupted, by it.

The movies are not the books.
The books are not the movies.


PJ can increase the corruptive power of the ring, and it doesn't affect the books, because the movies are not the books.

If you don't like the movies, you can always read the books instead.

[davem]

Originally Posted by Annatar

The movies are not the books.
The books are not the movies.

This is the kind of challenging intellectual debate that I keep coming back for.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by davem

This is the kind of challenging intellectual debate that I keep coming back for.

Myself, on the other hand, have been coming back fully expecting to see one of the brighter Downs wits who so favour parody to provide us with Professor Higgins' rendition of Why can't the movie be more like the book?.

I'd try my hand at it myself except blast it all PJ provided so much evidence himself to satisfy the refrain.

Originally Posted by WCH

PJ should have read Shippey.

What's even more frightening than the possibility that he didn't is that he did, but didn't understand him. Or Fleiger's Splintered Light.

Originally Posted by StW

Why in the world would I want a second hand source to interpret something for me . . . .

I could swear that this sentence is the start of that Professor Higgin's parody I was thinking of. Beginning rings so true to it . . .