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loved it. loveditloveditlovedit. and yeah, there were alot of things I could have picked holes in, but haven't felt that submerged in a cinematic world in ages....
And I think you've got to be really fucking uptight to get upset about the "toss the dwarf" line. I've seen the film x 3 and plenty of people laughed every time.
You want to talk to the elf, runce, who wants to make an edit from the dvds and remove all comedy dwarf moments. It pissed me off, right, as the growing relationship between gimli and legolas in the book is a much more nuanced thing than is possible if one half of the partnership is jimmi krankie in a beard.
ok, in the book, do the Ents need 'tricking' by Merry and Pippin into attacking Isengard? Pretty sure that after lots of 'hoom' and 'hmm' (my god, I've just realised, Haus is an ent) at their meet, they decide to attack without needing to be persuaded? An odd change (and I'm a massive ent-chauvinist, so basically want them to be as cool as poss.) and i can't quite see a reason for it.
God but i'm a geek.
And having finally read this thread, would agree that the elves' otherness is stamped all over, but this is of a piece with the rewriting in general focussing much more on the story of Men - as per the foregrounding of the whole Arwen/Aragorn thing. It's a big blockbuster movie, trying to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. |
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