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minervasoloSaw ROTK last night. At some point, when i can be bthered, I'll post a rant about people who use 'Tolkien neded an editor' to excuse not reading the books on fanficrants. Tolkien had to pay to get his books published and got almost nothing back! Everyone did those days. No onelived off writing, unless it was for a newspper.
To cut or not to cut? Probably not. The thing is, Tolkien's writing was never meant to be seen. This means, as Tor pointed out, the film feels like it ought to end many many tims before it does. It climax's too often, which is easier to get away with in a book because there's a lot of stuff in between, where as in the flim there wasn't time for that. And yes, it does go on for hours... Needed an intermission, really.
And then there are the songs. I love the songs in Tolkien, and they were well used (except Aragorn's at the end). it's just, well, why? There have been plenty of songs in hte other books that could have been used in exactly the same way, but only doing this for one film makes it rather jarring.
Ayway, good film,. strayed les form the books than hte others, though PJ seemed to feel Frodo and Sam needed yet ,more angst (i still think hte last film should haev ended with Shelob, as it did in the book), though I am now thoroughly convinced Sean Astin in the best actor in the series, and has almost converted me into liking Sam over Legolas (him being my favourite character over five years before the films came out, thankyouverymuch, nothing to do with Orlando whatsoever).
Liked it better than TTT, missed Christopher Lee (you can tell where they're going to put him in in the extended version though), but preferred the first one. Heh, it stayed closest to the books and had a gorgeous Shire. Pity they didn't bother withhte scouring of the Shire in this one, since it would have had a hell of a lot of emotional impact after all the "Remember the shire, mr Frodo?" But hey.
Oh, must see Troy! Aparantly the battle in it is better than hte one in RotK, and from the looks of hte advert it's not all CGI in hte battles either. Boats are bloody marvellous. And then htere's Peter Pan, which looks fun, and something else which i have since forgotten not only the name of but what it was about and who was in it, but I'm sure it was going to be brilliant.
To cut or not to cut? Probably not. The thing is, Tolkien's writing was never meant to be seen. This means, as Tor pointed out, the film feels like it ought to end many many tims before it does. It climax's too often, which is easier to get away with in a book because there's a lot of stuff in between, where as in the flim there wasn't time for that. And yes, it does go on for hours... Needed an intermission, really.
And then there are the songs. I love the songs in Tolkien, and they were well used (except Aragorn's at the end). it's just, well, why? There have been plenty of songs in hte other books that could have been used in exactly the same way, but only doing this for one film makes it rather jarring.
Ayway, good film,. strayed les form the books than hte others, though PJ seemed to feel Frodo and Sam needed yet ,more angst (i still think hte last film should haev ended with Shelob, as it did in the book), though I am now thoroughly convinced Sean Astin in the best actor in the series, and has almost converted me into liking Sam over Legolas (him being my favourite character over five years before the films came out, thankyouverymuch, nothing to do with Orlando whatsoever).
Liked it better than TTT, missed Christopher Lee (you can tell where they're going to put him in in the extended version though), but preferred the first one. Heh, it stayed closest to the books and had a gorgeous Shire. Pity they didn't bother withhte scouring of the Shire in this one, since it would have had a hell of a lot of emotional impact after all the "Remember the shire, mr Frodo?" But hey.
Oh, must see Troy! Aparantly the battle in it is better than hte one in RotK, and from the looks of hte advert it's not all CGI in hte battles either. Boats are bloody marvellous. And then htere's Peter Pan, which looks fun, and something else which i have since forgotten not only the name of but what it was about and who was in it, but I'm sure it was going to be brilliant.
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Date: 24/12/03 11:50 am (UTC)hmm...
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Date: 24/12/03 12:52 pm (UTC)I love Pippin's song in Minis Tirith. Beautiful