Book vs. Movie characters - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Gwaihir the Windlord · 08-14-2003, 01:57 AM

Yes, but unlike evil it is not better to have been. =/

Some people may not mind that the movies mess around far too much with the real story and characters, [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img], but I easily mind it enough for it to put me off them completely. Anyway. The transposition to a film of an incredible book like LotR unavoidably produces a stuffed-up movie; the real LotR can not be a film. They have to movie-ise it, which, to my dislike, distances it from the book and thus wrecks it.

You're right, King, I have been into Tolkien in depth for years before the movies. When you consider Tolkien's work, the whole mythology... when you are in love with that, the film is nothing more than a cheap imitation.
(Accept no imitations. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])

08-14-2003, 01:57 AM	#11
Gwaihir the Windlord Essence of Darkness Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Evermore Posts: 1,420	Yes, but unlike evil it is not better to have been. =/ Some people may not mind that the movies mess around far too much with the real story and characters, [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img], but I easily mind it enough for it to put me off them completely. Anyway. The transposition to a film of an incredible book like LotR unavoidably produces a stuffed-up movie; the real LotR can not be a film. They have to movie-ise it, which, to my dislike, distances it from the book and thus wrecks it. You're right, King, I have been into Tolkien in depth for years before the movies. When you consider Tolkien's work, the whole mythology... when you are in love with that, the film is nothing more than a cheap imitation. (Accept no imitations. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])