[thechat] LotR (was: hot actresses)

[Martin Burns]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, R.Livsey wrote:

> isaac wrote:
>
> >Freak! Liv Tyler is average stuff. I thought that time wasted with
> >her/Aragorn in TTT could've been far better spent explaining a few more
> >things, or finishing with Shelob as per the book.
> >
> +100
> It would have been such a cinematic ending to have sam running towards
> the doors that Frodo had been taken through and to have them slam in his
> face as the credits roll as per the ending of the book.

Ah, but having had a fairly dark film, having it end on a romantic moment
(yes, I *am* talking about Frodo and Sam) sent the audience out happy. Or
confused.

> >That whole "apparent death" sidetrack for Aragorn was a waste too.
> >
>
> Yup, that thoroughly annoyed me along with the whole Faramir change.
> Just watched all the extra features of the LotR extended edition with PJ
> going on endlessly about how they thought really hard about any minor
> change etc and how they wanted it to be pure to the books, how can he
> say that whilst completely changing whole parts of the story?!
> I can understand embelishing the love interests, or missing bits out.

They also moved stuff forward - all that stuff about Eowyn feeling trapped
in a gilded cage is from ROTK.

Cheers
Martin

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