i just feel the need to rant somewhere~!! this movie is so underrated, and the LotR is so
overrated!! it makes me literally wanna cry
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i'm just gonna quote someone on a totally different site that i read abt how they went on explaining the changes of the LotR books vs movies. because i couldn't agree more, and couldn't've said it better myself, and it'd be good for everyone to know that never read the books of LotR, then read the Hobbit, then watched the Hobbit and were disappointed and decided they just love LotR, and they were made respecting the story, while the Hobbit was made for money.. *
sigh* i can't disagree more..
Quote:
Peter Jackson rewrote it.
As for not agreeing with my view of the leaders in the book vs movie, here are some examples:
1. Aragorn: movie: “I never wanted this life” – book: “I have been fighting sauron all my life” – The thought and planning of overthrowing Sauron was all he ever wanted/did.
2. Theoden: movie: “we will flee to helms deep” – book: “gather everyone, we shall attack immediately”
3. Treebeard: movie: “This isn’t our fight” – book: “we must act, lets have an entmoot to plan the attack”
4. Denethor: movie: “I’m crazy and had no idea mordor was standing outside of my walls” – book: he planned multiple attacks outside of the walls and didn’t lose it until he saw faramir "dead. Gandalf even said that he had mental power and that sauron couldn’t take over, only scare him.
5. Faramir: movie: “I will take you to my father so he can have the ring” – book: we should not discuss the ring. Here are some supplies and advice, good luck on your journey.
6. Gandalf: movie: show’s signs of fear all the time. staff broken by witch king. book: “you will not enter the city.” to gimili – “I am more terrible than anything you could ever see unless you were to sit at the foot of sauron’s thrown”
7. Elrond: movie: Arwen, you have to leave! there is nothing for you here! – book: reforges the sword BEFORE they leave rivendell. Sends his sons and rangers south to help. Oh and he didn’t travel 800 miles to hand a sword to someone.
8. Even freaking shadowfax bucked in fear at the nazgul. In the book he was fearless.
Finally, I have to add all of the nonsense. Gimli: movie: bumbling comic relief – book: proud warrior. Merry & Pippen – again, fools in the movie, not in the book. Arwen: movie: LOVE STORY!!!! book: the elf that they see twice that Aragorn is going to marry. Elves at helms deep? Nope. Dead army at Minus Tirith? Nope. The story was about the transition of power from elves to men, not about how men always need help.
cat_talk2hand gosh, with what comes to the Hobbit, they actually managed to bring depth to characters that barely had a surface before. i found them to be rather loyal to the book. they didn't change things (except Azog), they just made some scenes a bit more dramatic.
through Gandalf, they even apologized for this; "All good stories deserve embellishment."
I love the book. but i love even more that the movie took a different approach to the story. it's basically the same story, but while i think the book was Bilbo's perspective, i think the movies took a broader view of it, and told it as a story of Middle Earth, the way Tolkien himself wanted to modify his book much later, after he had made LotR books, but was denied to do so by his publisher. i'm happy abt that also, i really love the book. it's just amazing that there's now two ways to approach it. they got the atmosphere just right, and the pace, imo, was very soothing, the movie didn't have a rush to tell the tale, which i've never seen in a movie adaption of a book before. it's a definite plus.