<BR> Re: Lurtz and other Changes</b><br><br> red, how do you presume to know anything about me or what I may or may not have done? I don't make assumptions about you or anyone else on this board. I have the right to state my opinions here as much as anyone else, without resorting to personal attacks.<br> <br> Whatever. <br> <br> I have great respect for Peter Jackson, as a director. I think "Heavenly Creatures" is one of the better films I have seen (especially so since I can remember so much of it from five years ago). But based upon spy photos and reports which are posted on the many LOTR sites, the film is looking sillier and sillier to me. There are reports of not a few, but many, many, significant changes to the story. Maybe the spies are wrong. I'll wait to see the film before I "shoot it down" or praise it, but I'll happily dis' promotional pictures and spy photos and reports. Although Peter Jackson has stated that he is making his interpretation, he also stated that he understands his responsibility to the millions of fans of JRR Tolkien's book upon which he is basing his film. Additionally, the film isn't Peter Jackson's, but New Line's, a subsidiary of AOL-Time/Warner. They as producers may be exerting much pressure on PJ to make this LOTR Trilogy as commercial as possible, for fear that Tolkien's vision is "dated" and not relevant to the cinema audience of today. I can understand why the Tolkien Estate refused to endorse the production. I still hope the film does justice to the book, and I may enjoy it now that my expectations are so lowered. I even enjoyed the Bakshi film when I saw it in the '70s.<br> <br> <p></p>
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