Eh... Galorme... Do I have to be an individual? I don’t wanna. I wanna be a Dwarf. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
I think ”lets hunt some orc” is bad a) because it is changed from the book and b) because It sounds rather more like 2002 AD action hero saying ”lets kick some *** ” then the 3019 TA future king making a difficult choise.
I deeply resent omitting all of the planning and preparation and plotting by the hobbits in the shire before leaving and replacing it with some silly scene in the corn field. This however can be justified as there is only so much that can be fitted into a minute of film. It bugs me that gandalf tells frodo of things of history in Moria, but it is necessiated by the changes in the begining of the story. Changing Glorfindel into Arwen irritates me, but I suppose they wanted to show the future queen, since one hardly can use appendixes and footnotes in a movie. I understand why the distance between where Glorfindel/Arwen is met and Rivendell is shortened, the visual requirements of the flight from the nazgul sets different frame.
BUT WHY do they make theese ridiculess INSIGNIFIGANT changes like going from ”I will follow the orcs” to ”lets hunt some orc” ?!?!?!?!
(Or trumping up some strange telekinetic Darth Vader vs Luke Skywalker duel between Saruman and Gandalf! Thats the change I detest most.)
Jackson has only one logical reason for this kind of thing. ”Because it is cool and more 21st century” AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH !!!!!!
I mean, would it not have been cool and 21st century, if Gandalf had been played by Arnold Swarcheneger and falling to the pit in Moria he had had not cried ”Run you fools”, but rather ”I’ll be back!”
When dramatising classic books, a moviemaker has to make some alterations because of different media. However, if the moviemakers desire to pursue their personal visions of coolness, they should not be dramatising classics.
Janne Harju
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