[ SECRET POST #3241 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3241 ⌋

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Notes:

Working late again, sorry!

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 018 secrets from Secret Submission Post #463.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

I'm known among my nerdfriends as a die-hard LOTR book purist so take that as you may, but generally I feel there hasn't yet been a movie adaptation that genuinely tried to be faithful to the book. Like, there's too many cooks in the kitchen already, between directors, writers/adapters, producers, studio moguls wanting a blockbuster, marketing directors, occasionally the original author, etc, such that too much meddling drives the finished movie further and further from the source. Sometimes you still get really good movies, but those movies are generally telling a very different story from the book and most book fans want the book's story told, not a new story built on the framework of the one they're familiar with.

That said, I feel like it's also the kind of thing that can only be successfully pulled off by a very small number of extremely talented people who may or may not exist in the world. I think movies can be more faithful to the books they're based on, but only with a magnificent director who doesn't let formulaic filmmaking, shitty script adapters, and pushes from the studio for more action/more tropes that the focus groups will approve get in the way of telling the story. Yes, stuff has to be cut out or condensed to still tell the story within the time frame and using visuals instead of pages of text, but nothing chaps my butt more than "oh we had to cut those scenes for time" followed by adding in 10-minute long action scenes that never happened in the book.

Re: Inspired by #2

[(Anonymous)]

I agree for the most part. It was especially egregious in The Hobbit movies because they added all their own stuff (hours of it) but there were large parts of the book that were left out.