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Originally Posted by sassyfriend
I feel really bad for Smeagol being treated like that by Faramir and his men. Wouldn't it have been easyer softing him up by just maybe yelling at him?
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It certainly seems as though the director couldn't, for whatever reason, accept the character of Faramir as being this ideal military leader. It was deemed necessary to show that
the good guys aren't always good, and this character took the hit! Despite his being one of the very best of men in the book.