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Galorme · 12-18-2002, 06:02 PM

That is a very good question. I don't think that any film can stay perfectly close to a book, unless you were to take the book as a script. Maybe if every character in the movie had used all the lines from LoTRs, and everything was followed to the letter, you would have

a) A film as good as the book
b) A very, very long film.

So yeah it could be done, but not in a format that would be releasable in a cinema. Maybe as a series of hour-long episodes (like 100 of them, one a week for two years).

What I do think is possible is to make movies that are good based on the book. They do not have to be as good as the book, but they can be good films. And I think what PJ has made is basically a set of good movies, but the books set something so great that they cannot really be made up to.

12-18-2002, 06:02 PM	#2
Galorme Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: London Posts: 337	That is a very good question. I don't think that any film can stay perfectly close to a book, unless you were to take the book as a script. Maybe if every character in the movie had used all the lines from LoTRs, and everything was followed to the letter, you would have a) A film as good as the book b) A very, very long film. So yeah it could be done, but not in a format that would be releasable in a cinema. Maybe as a series of hour-long episodes (like 100 of them, one a week for two years). What I do think is possible is to make movies that are good based on the book. They do not have to be as good as the book, but they can be good films. And I think what PJ has made is basically a set of good movies, but the books set something so great that they cannot really be made up to. __________________ Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! The day has come! Behold people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men, the day has come!