Re: (Next to no) discussion on extended version of TTT?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ) wrote:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "jere7my
> tho?rpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >     Incidentally, the entirety of the Aragorn-over-the-cliff scenes 
> >lasts less than two minutes.
> 
> Include the unnecessary warg battle and how much times do you save.  

     Another four minutes.  Total time "wasted" by that entire subplot, 
six minutes.  (And please don't say "Then they would have had time for 
the VoS, which was only 7 minutes!" because I'll just have to repeat 
myself and say that that decision was about not wanting a denouement, 
not about time.)

> > Faramir is trying to fulfill his 
> > father's wishes when he takes Frodo to Osgiliath, and is not, in fact, 
> > corrupted by the Ring.

> Coulda fooled me by that amateurish fisheye closeups of Faramir while he's
> fondling the Ring with his swordpoint.

     Book-Faramir also feels a moment of temptation when he sees the 
Ring; he stood up stern and tall, with a strange smile, his grey eyes 
glinting -- very similar to Galadriel's temptation.  Temptation is not 
the same as corruption; Boromir was corrupted.  (Book-Faramir 
immediately forsakes the Ring, laughing, but it is not clear whether he 
was actually tempted or just teasing the hobbits.  I think the latter 
would be uncharacteristically cruel, and since he does say the test was 
too stiff for Boromir it seems clear to me that he _was_ tested, if only 
for a moment.)

                                                  ----j7y

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