Crimes Against Tolkienity

[Eurytus]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Yet no one ever offers any evidence of why they are well directed. All I ever hear is apologies: "You have to do that in a film", or "Jackson had to appeal to women", or "There's not enough time to show that". <BR>So: what great strokes of directorial genius have I missed. Where did Jackson show the skills of a new Hitchcock, Scott, Ford, Capra, Hawkins, Huston, or Kurosawa?<BR> <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>And you have offered absolutely zero examples of poor direction. In fact I am beginning to suspect that you do not know what a director does. All your criticisms to date have been based on differences between book and film. These are related to the script and have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of direction.<P>Of course the point of the matter is that I do not need to argue with you about it. The critical and commercial success of the films proves it for me. Film companies are not in the habit of giving $20 million plus 20% of the gross to bad directors.<P>Perhaps if you omitted the hyperbole from your arguments you might find that people might accept them or at least part of them.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> There isn't much of a fight but there is a hell of a good bit of scene-setting and the establishment of the Nazgul as something much more sinister than a bunch of hunckbacks on horses. Big visual oppertunities await the right director. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Right, the Nazgul in the book are really sinister. So sinister in fact that they still get beaten off by one guy with a flaming stick.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Secondly, I'm at least as qualified as Jackson. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>No, you are not as qualified as Jackson. Know why? Because he has earned the chance to do it. He took the gambles, he persuaded the movie chiefs, he built up the special effects shop, he wrote the script.<BR>Go away and get your own budget then I’m sure you can make the film you want but *****ing about the talents of a director who is set to make the highest grossing movie trilogy in history is frankly going to be a lonely (and pointless) task.