Re: PJ's interpretation ofAragorn - am I alone ?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jim.laker2
@yahoo.com says...
> 
> Then should we restrict discussion of the characters to the main text 
> of LotR, without reference to the Appendices, The Hobbit, or anything 
> other than the body?  If we are to drag in the Silmarillion and 
> everything else into our understanding of Middle Earth, then we should 
> likewise look at the most complete picture of PJLotR that is available.  
> I've already said that I haven't yet seen TTTEE, so I won't conclude 
> either way just yet.

The EE is a nice expansion, and we do get a scene telling us that 
Aragorn has been running around the world in different guises, 
fighting battles -- not languishing slacker-like in Rivendell as some 
have claimed.  We're also told his age. :)

The only commentary track I've gotten through so far is the 
director/writer one, and Peter, Phillipa, and Fran actually discuss 
every one of the major plot change criticisms for the film.  Phillipa 
is the most defensive; Fran the most conciliatory.  Fran actually 
says more than once that they had started in one direction, and 
thought about changing it later, but were so far into filming that it 
was no longer feasible, so they had to try to push it back closer to 
the books with pick-ups, and sometimes they were more successful than 
other.  Phillipa brings up the point that the book at this point has 
little to no "reversals" of character, which are often important to 
movies, which is why many of the plot changes.  The Elves at Helm's 
Deep are both to slow the Elvish participation in the war elsewhere, 
and because one of Phillipa's favorite scenes in the book was Elrond 
sending his sons to Aragorn, and it was a way for her to put it in 
without having to establish that Elrond has sons back in the first 
movie, etc. 

Whether or not you'll accept any explanations for the changes, the 
discussions about their reasons are quite interesting, if only 
Phillipa would quit saying, "SLIGHT deviation!  SLIGHT deviation!"  
She started sound a tad hysterical.

Michelle
Flutist

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