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⌈ Secret Post #6574 ⌋

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Re: Adaptations you never want to see again

[(Anonymous)]

other anon who agrees with ayrt: everything sums it up. Jackson claims to be a fan but I feel all these years later that he was only ever a fan of the aesthetic, not the themes or the writing. If he understood Tolkien's themes there would not have been elves at Helm's Deep, among other things. It's not like the things he got wrong were changing otherwise unfilmable scenes, he just chose to film it some bizzaro my-vision way instead of as written. It's like once he started tweaking it to add more Hollywood blockbuster, the more it had to keep being tweaked so the early tweaks didn't unravel the whole sweater.

I had a storyboarding class in college (well before the movies came out) and one of the assignments was to storyboard a scene from a book. I chose Weathertop. Even wrote the camera directions exactly as written, panning past the fire to the silhouettes on the side of the hill... The movie scene was nothing like it. I got an A on that btw.

Sure, maybe they were banking on the blockbuster to make back all that money spent, but I do agree with ayrt that it did get people to read the books, and it does keep Disney away, but the changes are just something I can't with. Ever.

Re: Adaptations you never want to see again

[(Anonymous)]

Even wrote the camera directions exactly as written, panning past the fire to the silhouettes on the side of the hill... The movie scene was nothing like it. I got an A on that btw.

Tolkien was a very visual writer - and he knew an awful (I choose the word carefully) lot about battles, both ancient and modern. Why PJ felt the need to mess with any of this is beyond me.