Quote:
Originally Posted by Nerwen
LP, I was talking about the Deliverance article, i.e. it was a fairly OT comment.
Anyway, the posters on that thread are pretty funny– honestly, the way people manage to convince themselves Boorman's adaptation is a lost masterpiece, rather than the disaster it would have been had it actually reached the screen.... Still, part of me does regret it was never filmed– it could have been one of those *legendary* bad movies, like, oh, I don't know, Zardoz... 
|
I think the film would've made a classic, very very odd but classic Fantasy film. Would it have been a good LOTR adaptation? Absolutely not! But it may have been a great fantasy film in it's own right. As a LOTR adaptation it's a disaster, but as a fantasy film it probably would've worked, IMHO.
It has a lot of the same things which made Excalibur (which I feel is one of the best fantasy films ever made) work, while using the wider world of the LOTR, and amped up to 11 because it was the '70s. Would indeed have been really interesting to see. Makes me wish either it came out or that Boorman used a lot of his original ideas and created his own original fantasy film.
Then again I'm one of those odd people who feels, for example, that stop motion special effects (ala Harryhausen) have a certain odd charm that CGI lacks.