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Diamond18 · 12-19-2002, 01:00 AM

The thing I just realized today is that the parallel journeys of Frodo/Sam Merry/Pippin Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli are really hard to mesh in a movie format. Most movies will have a subplot or two that they may cut to, but none to this extent.

I assumed when reading the book that a movie would have to make more immediate cuts instead of the way it runs in the book, but I'm afraid that turns out to be a disadvantage.

Maybe it's just too hard to chronicle all these different characters with the depth they deserve the way movies are made today. As hard as FotR seemed to be to make into a movie, it may be a piece of cake compared to TTT and RotK, when all these main characters are split up. Could you make a movie in which you dwelled on one set of adventures at length and then go back in time and cover something else that was going on at the same time? It would help the flow of each individual story, but perhaps that only works in a book. No one has ever tried it in the movies, so we don't really know.

12-19-2002, 01:00 AM	#5
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	The thing I just realized today is that the parallel journeys of Frodo/Sam Merry/Pippin Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli are really hard to mesh in a movie format. Most movies will have a subplot or two that they may cut to, but none to this extent. I assumed when reading the book that a movie would have to make more immediate cuts instead of the way it runs in the book, but I'm afraid that turns out to be a disadvantage. Maybe it's just too hard to chronicle all these different characters with the depth they deserve the way movies are made today. As hard as FotR seemed to be to make into a movie, it may be a piece of cake compared to TTT and RotK, when all these main characters are split up. Could you make a movie in which you dwelled on one set of adventures at length and then go back in time and cover something else that was going on at the same time? It would help the flow of each individual story, but perhaps that only works in a book. No one has ever tried it in the movies, so we don't really know. __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.