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

"Smaug69" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "jere7my tho?rpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smaug69) wrote:
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> > > Yes. People can justify anything if they really want. Having seen some
> > > of that (thankfully) excised footage of Arwen fighting at Helm's Deep
> > > and listening to some of Boyens' comments- especially about the
> > > Council of Elrond chapter of the book- and now the complete
> > > elimination of Saruman from ROTK I have altered my opinion of that
> > > writing triumvirate. I don't think they are real fans of the book,
> > > just pseudo-fans(like those hippies in the 1960s running around with
> > > Frodo Lives!) who like the idea of the story and the characters, but
> > > not the execution or the depth.
> >
> >      They are fans who were faced with the realities of filmmaking.
>
> Sorry, but some of Boyens' comments had nothing to do with filmmaking.
> She was talking about the writing style of Tolkien and how she would
> have liked to have taken a blue pencil to that Council of Elrond
> chapter. That's abhorrent, AFAIAC.
>
>

Sorry but ask any author about their favourite book by another
author and you can bet there's at least one scene that their
*own* writing-brain says "I'd have written that differently or
left that bit out if it was me writing it."

No one is immune - Tolkien probably wanted to blue-pencil
all sorts of stuff in his friend Lewis's stuff.

There is no such thing as "perfection" - there may be moments
of near perfection, but the day that everything is perfect that
is the day that the world will end.  There is no book, no story,
no movie, no stage play, that is totally perfect.  Some come
close - but there is nothing in this world that cannot be improved
in some small way - and what *some* would think an improvement
would be *ruin* to another.


-- 
Jette
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