Why didn't he just take it?

[Morsul the Dark]

SaucePanMan is right "Evil faramir" was onlt doing what he thought was best

and think about it if you flipped out over this change what would you have done if Faramir had actually taken it

[Folwren]

Originally posted by Morsul the Dark:
and think about it if you flipped out over this change what would you have done if Faramir had actually taken it

They couldn't have had him take the Ring without wrecking the entire story and all of Middle-earth, that's true, and my personal opinion is that that's the reason PJ didn't have him take it. It's just, if Faramir isn't going to act like he did in the book and if he acts like he did in the movie, chances are, he would have taken the Ring and tried to carry it himself. Their twisted Faramir didn't make sense.

But Saucepan Man's point is very good. That's made the most sense so far.

[Glirdan]

Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark

SaucePanMan is right "Evil faramir" was onlt doing what he thought was best

I quite agree. He was only doing what he thought was right. In any case, he had to bring them to see Denethor so they could have leave to walk around in Gondor.

[Beanamir of Gondor]

I agree that the whole Faramir-taking-the-ring thing would definitely have forced the entire plotline to be rewritten from halfway through TTT all the way to the end of ROTK. No way would Phillipa Boyens have agreed to do that, or PJ have consented to allow it.
But my real point in posting is that I think Movie!Faramir was just shocked and whipped when Sam told him that Boromir tried to kill Frodo to get the Ring. I mean, honestly, if someone told me that my brother, my beloved brother and role model, had tried to kill somebody "after swearing an oath to protect him", I would stop in my tracks and rethink what I was doing. Faramir, in my opinion, realized just HOW powerful the Ring was, and possibly considered what the heck it would do to his dad, once he had his hands on it.