Can the Film ever improve on the book?

[Airetauriel]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Marileangorifurnimaluim:<BR>[QB]This may be sort of an adult observation, but it's like sex. Once there's release, you have to build it back up again. But if there's a tease, and then you back off, it does the opposite, the finale is that much more intense. (The BW may assign me to a blue forum for this analogy, but I felt it was necessary, to explain what I meant by dramatic tension. I did make my point, didn't I?)[QB]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Like the analogy! I'm sure we all understand you... But the tension does get back up to level in Moria, I think. The watcher in the water doesn't spoil it too much....the way they portrayed the Balrog without showing him till the last minute was very good....more of your teasing... First the footsteps, then the fire glow, then the crumbling wall, then the fire itself, before he finally leaps out...enough tension? It was improved by the scene on the stairs, too...very visually dramatic! And the way Gandalf shouts at Aragorn is so out of character it immediately puts you on red alert. <P>GANDALF: 'You cannot pass! I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass!'<BR>BALROG: *drawing himself up to full height, wreathed in flame* Wanna bet?!? <BR>GANDALF: 'The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You cannot pass!'<BR>BALROG: My sword is bigger than yours!!! *crashes it down upon Gandalf's staff* Damn....*roars, stepping forward onto the bridge*<BR>GANDALF: You cannot pass! *smotes the bridge with his staff, the Balrog's great bulk begins to fall....*<BR>BALROG: Now why'd you have to go and do that? I'm afraid of heights as it is...*falls away, cracking his whip, and wrapping it around Gandalf's legs. He falls.*<BR>GANDALF: 'Fly, you fools!'<BR>BALROG: Ohhhh Noooo he's coming with me... I can see this being a very long night...<P>It could have been a lot worse!!!!!<P>Airetauriel