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fandomsecrets2012-03-06 06:53 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-03-06 06:53 pm
[ SECRET POST #1890 ]
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They spent WAY too much time in Helm's Deep. You realize that was a single chapter in the actual book. It was The Two Towers, not The Chronicles of Helm's Deep. But that was to show how glorious war is, you see. The Ents came off as slow as in stupid rather than slow as in thoughtful, and the hobbits--my beloved hobbits!--were suddently warmongers, egging Treebeard on into war. It felt wrong for them, and wrong for Treebeard to get his branches twisted into the fight that way. This was paralleled with Theoden resisting war even when the only alternative was annihilation, and needing to be cajoled and shamed--once again by the Good Guys--into fighting. In the book, there was no such scene. Once freed from Wormtongue's influence, Theoden was eager for a sword to hold. The book The Two Towers is anti-war, despite being about war. The movie is downright hawkish.
This came as especially disturbing in light of the political atmosphere when the film was released. While some saw the original books as paralleling WWII (which Tolkien himself repeatedly denied), Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings was latched onto by the Right as symbolizing the struggle between good and evil. This came during the Bush presidency, with the United States in two wars, and suddenly our enemies weren't even human beings, they were orcs. Perhaps Sauron and Mordor was Afghanistan--the older, more important war--but Saruman and Isengard was Iraq, a more immediate, if somewhat distracting, war. We're the good guys, of course! And in case you've forgotten how very necessary war is, let's have some strawman characters resisting it even though circumstantially it's pretty illogical, and wow you with our pro-war arguments that are totally relevant to the current situation.
Also, Faramir was unrecognizable to me, and I'd loved him. Frodo and Sam fighting was pure character assassination. I think they had enough conflict, okay. Adding that stuff was just cheap. And the most amazing part of the book, The Choices of Master Samwise, the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers, wasn't even in the movie! How anyone can praise the pacing of this trilogy when that was so thoroughly botched is beyond me. You didn't even have to have read the books to think that was just a bizarre stopping point for an epic movie. Gollum is....plotting something? Okay? Is something going to happen? No? We wait a year? Okay....
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