[Neferchoirwen]

As a literature major beginning to lean towards pop culture studies (films genres and the like, for instance), this thread is literally feeding my brain.

Genevieve, you are so welcome!
*bows*

Jackson's treatment of Faramir has become a major sore point for my wife that the kids and I sometime like to ride her about, but truth be told, if any of the character treatments deserve the word butchered, it's this one

I may be the devil’s advocate for Faramir (had me a violent reaction somewhere about my stand, but I'm an open person...), as it seems. But my understanding of Faramir rests on the fact that he is pressured by a lot of things: the enemy closing in on all sides, the death of his brother, and in connection with that tragedy, facing his father with news that his favorite son is dead. As for Faramir, I am looking forward for him to be “redeemed” in some way in the next movie, now that Denethor will enter the scene.

I like movie Theoden better.

He actually made me wish for a grandfather like him. My gramps is still alive, but I find myself asking: “Why can’t the senior citizens in the family be more like the people I read?” I even wished that I’d have Maya Angelou as a grandmother, but this is all OT…

Otto's Eowyn doesn't feel quite right to me. I'm one of the ones that thinks her relationship with Aragorn is being handled well, so I don't think that's it.

Same here. She seems too much like a child, IMO.

you feel like slapping him and telling him to snap out of it and stop being such a wuss

…except that slapping won’t snap him out of it…unless you be ringbearer.

I think it's true, though; that Frodo just seems all too desperate. A bit early for him to succumb to the Ring, but an epic won't have enough time to unfold on silver screen. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

His [Grima] scene with Eowyn was sad in many ways.

It kinda made me feel for Grima…only for a few minutes. I felt for the man in Grima, for a while back there. Then when Eowyn was left by the door, I suddenly felt like yelling “you go, girl!”

She [Arwen] wasted screen time that could've been used on more important things.

Which made me ask: do the audience (non-readers at this point) need to know the events in the appendixes? I mean, I’m SURE that they will get married in the movies, one way or another…Are the appendixes necessary to include in the movie? A great point, though, Hobbit Punk [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

in general, i think almost all of the characters lost something to the movies.

Movies are bound to be that way…once, or even twice removed from the reality as originally intended in the books(twice because the reality is interpreted differently by the script writers, and is conveyed differently in the finished film; but then again, who knows how many times the "reality" has been removed, considering the dailyrevisions ). Movies are a different kind of literature altogether, and is a separate language as well, and so these things are quite unavoidable.

~forgive the devil's advocate mode...