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The good, the bad and the ring (WAS: LoTR: The Two "Towers")
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Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:02:24 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> > To see the movie, you'd think the party could just fend off the riders
> > pretty darn easily if they showed up again. To read the book, I get a much
> > more foreboding impression-- that they could've killed them all if they
> > wanted to, but erred on the side of caution; probably wondering if they
> > could overcome Aragorn if he decided for some reason to suddenly wield the
> > Ring himself. The movie makes me think they were *desperately* trying to get
> > the Ring, but just couldn't do it because Strider fought viciously. Not that
> > they more consciously decided to leave and wait.
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> Yeah, Jackson went for cheap visuals and bad continuity
Just curious. Was this a throw-away comment, or did you really find the
visuals to be that bad? And were there particular continuity errors you
noticed?
After watching hours of the behind-the-scenes stuff, and knowing how they
did it (especially dealing with issues of scale) I'm still amazed at how
good it looks.
> - I mean, where do
> you rent a replacement wraith costume in The Wild after your previous one
> got burnt to a crisp?
Actually, that scene was shot very early on in the schedule. In fact, it
was Viggo's first day on the set. So it's quite likely that if a costume
was destroyed, it was planned and accounted for.
> (the
> movie was an incredible finicial gamble, so I try not to scream too much
> since they were brave enough to do it as a trilogy).
I find little to complain about when it comes to differences between the
book and movie(s). To film the book literally and in the original sequence
would have been painful to watch. The trip through the woods and meeting
Tom Bombadil could have easily consumed 30 minutes on its own. I think
Jackson and the two writers did an amazing job of reorganizing, restructing
and revising the story to make it palatable as a film. To have done any less
would have been to condemn the movie to fail.
Regards,
Allan B.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Hear! Hear!
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| Allan, You hit the nail on the head. The kind of fanatical nit-picking by fanatics of the books is the main reason I cannot continue to read the alt.fan.tolkien newsgroup. There is no joy to be found there, only the most self-serving perseverating (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LoTR: The Two "Towels"
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| (...) Yup, pretty much as I said (I got to butcher The Fellowship of the Ring long before Jackson did, but I claim - rightly or wrongly - the excuse that a computer game requires more liberties than a movie). ;-) (...) Walked off? "Pardon me, you (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.castle)
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