My list of everything wrong with the movies (Not EE) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Essex · 01-23-2004, 04:03 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> The rushing of Frodo's departure, in the bok it took 17 years, in the movie, a few minutes... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>How on earth can you show this in a movie without a narrator. It worked fine in the cartoon version as the narrator explained it, but what can Jackson do? Could he 'age' the hobbit characters using prosthetics by 17 years, and then be stuck with this 'look' for the rest of the film? I think not.<P>How they alluded to the time difference was to show Frodo having to find the Ring (still in the envelope) in the box it was kept in. <P>I've learnt to live with most of the minor changes to the films. If you want a fantasy film that is pretty much exactly like the book, then watch HP and the Philophoser's Stone (Sorcerer if you're American, why on earth did they do that?) HP1 is an incredibly boring film because it sticks so tightly to the book (which is an exxelent read). Sometimes it just doesn't work out well when this is done........

01-23-2004, 04:03 AM	#7
Essex Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 886	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> The rushing of Frodo's departure, in the bok it took 17 years, in the movie, a few minutes... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>How on earth can you show this in a movie without a narrator. It worked fine in the cartoon version as the narrator explained it, but what can Jackson do? Could he 'age' the hobbit characters using prosthetics by 17 years, and then be stuck with this 'look' for the rest of the film? I think not.<P>How they alluded to the time difference was to show Frodo having to find the Ring (still in the envelope) in the box it was kept in. <P>I've learnt to live with most of the minor changes to the films. If you want a fantasy film that is pretty much exactly like the book, then watch HP and the Philophoser's Stone (Sorcerer if you're American, why on earth did they do that?) HP1 is an incredibly boring film because it sticks so tightly to the book (which is an exxelent read). Sometimes it just doesn't work out well when this is done........