Return of the King

Trident · Post by **Trident** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:40 am

Well, you make the erroneous assumption that these people understand the concepts of books, and in particular movies based off books.

Actually, thinking about it, the ending spot is bad mainly because I'm concerned about what that'll do to the third movie. There's still a lot they need to cover at the end of the second book, not to mention the third one...

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 10:08 am

Trident wrote:Well, you make the erroneous assumption that these people understand the concepts of books, and in particular movies based off books.

Actually, thinking about it, the ending spot is bad mainly because I'm concerned about what that'll do to the third movie. There's still a lot they need to cover at the end of the second book, not to mention the third one...

maybe they'll cut out the stuff that happens in the Shire...

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:20 am

That wouldn't dissappoint me too much.

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:26 am

El Banana wrote:That wouldn't dissappoint me too much.

yeah, but whether we like it or not its still a part of the book

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:31 pm

The book is the book, the movie is the movie.

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:25 pm

That is true, they can't ever be one and the same but they might as well give it a damn good try!

Trident · Post by **Trident** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:23 pm

Actually, the stuff in the Shire was some of my favorite stuff in the whole--Trilogy? Saga? What would you call The Lord of the Rings anyway? There's a lot of stuff in the war that can probably be cut out though (the coronation thing can be shortened, for example).

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:40 pm

I'm glad they cut off the scene in the first book where they get sort of lost in the forest right as they are leaving the shire.
I kept rereading the scene because my mind would drift, and I'd forget where I was on the page.

DvWizard · Post by **DvWizard** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 5:57 pm

I cant wait to see Lord Of the Rings three

Trident · Post by **Trident** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:18 pm

El Banana wrote:I'm glad they cut off the scene in the first book where they get sort of lost in the forest right as they are leaving the shire.
I kept rereading the scene because my mind would drift, and I'd forget where I was on the page.

The forest itself was okay. I'm wondering what they'll do about Merry and Pippin's daggers. But yeah--the whole Tom Bombadil undoubtedly says something about Tolkien's beliefs about the nature of man and likely harks back to some great epic tradition. Which makes it ironic that Tom Bombadil bores me, as I'm into comparative literature... But yeah, that scene was a safe cut.