Shelob'sAppetite
Valinor
Oct 4 2012, 3:07am
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Because of one comment I made about the heart of the story?
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Come on now, GoodGuy. This isn't an American political debate. You can't color me a literal purist because I make one comment about preserving the essence of the story. I am, as I have often said, a "tone" or "essence" purist. If PJ can evoke the same feelings and thoughts, through film, that Tolkien does solely through words, than I will accept all sorts of literal changes (which is one reason why, unlike many others, I really enjoy the warg attack in TTT - that scene felt much more Tolkien to me than the entire Helm's Deep mess). In terms of the Hobbit, the essence of the story is the conflict between Bilbo and Thorin. That is the character essence, and the thematic essence, of the entire thing. If PJ goes too far off the rails with convoluted dwarf character arcs, and the Dol Guldur material, than that would be a bit of a problem. If, however, PJ manages to give us lots of little dwarven character arcs, and lots of Dol Guldur material, that to me feels like Tolkien, and seems to interpret was Tolkien was saying in a satisfying visual way, I will once again forgive a lot. I don't dislike the LOTR films because they cut things like Bombadil, or added things like Theodred's funeral. I dislike the LOTR films because of PJ's style of film-making, and because of what I feel was an amateurish script that focused too intently, and sophomorically, on "dramatic reversals," awkward or overcooked "arcs" and melodrama.
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