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KingCarlton · 04-02-2002, 12:30 AM

I would be most happy to join in this excellent series of discussions. In my opinion a motion picture caters to a much wider variety of people and has to adjust the initial story accordingly. I have no problem with the beefed up role for Arwen....in the mind of the general audience, a beautiful leading lady is necessary. Though it is sad that Lotr does not have a prominent female cast of characters, it is welcoming to have what little of them is exceptionally visialised in the movies. There isn't a sequence That I would like changed other than the mugshots of frodo. I would have liked a little more on Gollum. Everything else was as good as a movie could get. The best sequences for me were - the war segment in the beginning, everything at the shire, the chase to to ford(Just the horses, excellent camera), the sweeping shots of pits on mordor, the treks on the snow, the way to Darrowdelf(but not the fighting) and of course the final battle in it's entirity.What I am absolutly dissapointed by is the soundtrack. Every composition seems like it is from other movies. For instance, the segment on the sweep of the hell-like pits of mordor and all the way to the final battle, the musical piece called 'A Knife in the Dark' seemed lke a rip-off of the main theme of 'Conan The Barbarian' interspred with the 'O Fortuna' Chorus. And in too many places the music seem inappropriate.Know Peace.

04-02-2002, 12:30 AM	#56
KingCarlton Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dream Kingdom Posts: 119	I would be most happy to join in this excellent series of discussions. In my opinion a motion picture caters to a much wider variety of people and has to adjust the initial story accordingly.<BR>I have no problem with the beefed up role for Arwen....in the mind of the general audience, a beautiful leading lady is necessary. Though it is sad that Lotr does not have a prominent female cast of characters, it is welcoming to have what little of them is exceptionally visialised in the movies. <BR>There isn't a sequence That I would like changed other than the mugshots of frodo. I would have liked a little more on Gollum.<BR>Everything else was as good as a movie could get.<BR>The best sequences for me were - the war segment in the beginning, everything at the shire, the chase to to ford(Just the horses, excellent camera), the sweeping shots of pits on mordor, the treks on the snow, the way to Darrowdelf(but not the fighting) and of course the final battle in it's entirity.<P>What I am absolutly dissapointed by is the soundtrack. Every composition seems like it is from other movies. For instance, the segment on the sweep of the hell-like pits of mordor and all the way to the final battle, the musical piece called 'A Knife in the Dark' seemed lke a rip-off of the main theme of 'Conan The Barbarian' interspred with the 'O Fortuna' Chorus. And in too many places the music seem inappropriate.<P>Know Peace. <BR> __________________ Know ye People, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, And the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. Hither came Carlton, the King, black haired, bronze hued, mightily thewed, sullen eyed. Sword in hand, a warrior, a destroyer, a conqueror. With gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jewelled thrones of the Earth, under his sandalled feet.