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Originally Posted by Morthoron
Please don't. For the love of Eru, don't bother.
Word-for-word transcription from novel to movie is daft.
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At no point did I say "word-for-word."
I said that the movie would need to be longer than 2 hours to include
THE ENTIRE book.
And that is due to the Heuristic Used in Screenwriting of an approximately 1-Page:1-Minute for Script:Screentime.
You don't seem to care about the actual evidence here, and seem instead to be relying upon what Jackson produced as the only possible means of depicting
The Hobbit in three films, when he cut out vast swaths of the book, and included much that was utterly superfluous in its place.
Unless these is some real evidence for why 20 minutes per chapter (and, to include
ON AVERAGE, since that seems to be a tricky concept for some) is too long, then that remains a fair standard for length of a production.
You might claim that some Chapters can be Significantly shortened (and I have no doubt that it would absolutely be possible to shorten some chapters), but unless you can show that this is the case AND that
ALL CHAPTERS would then fit into a roughly 6 - 10 minute, on average, running-time, then the Movie simply would not fit into a 2 - 4 hour production without citing substantial amounts of material.
And the only way to do that is to detail the specific scenes that can result in an average 6 - 10 minute per chapter production.
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