From: "Bryon Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:38:24 -0500
From: "Travis Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:opinion on the trilogy, plus throwing in a friendly jab. And as to my opinion, I don't think you can really make any judgement on the movies, unless you compare them to the books, which is the true receptacle of the Lord Of The Rings story. This is just my own opinion...
I disagree. Although, personally it's hard for me to see the films in any light besides how faithful/unfaithful it is to the books, I don't think that's the only, or even primary, criteria for anyone but hardcore fans of the novel to use. Movies really do have to stand on, and should be judged by, their own merits. There's tons of movies out there based on books, which I've never read, and it's silly to think I couldn't make a judgement on them because of that.
For example, I think The Green Mile was a fantastic film, and Firestarter was lousy, but I've never read those Stephen King works, and think it would be silly to judge them purely in terms of their faithfulness to their original works. And for most people it will be the same for LOTR, even if we hardcore fans have a hard time seeing it that way.
You make some good points. And I tend to agree in a generalized way. However my argument lies not in movies as movies, but in books as movies. For example, a film that is NOT based on a book (for our purposes we shall call it a stand-alone film) can indeed be judged by your gereral criteria. However, a film that is based on a book must, I repeat must be scrutinized in relation to that book itself. As I said, a book (especially one adapted to film) is the true receptacle of a story. Therefore it is a little capricious and downright flawed to look at the situation any other way. Unless of course one hasn't read a particular book that has been adapted to film, and subsequently judged the film based on the merits of films alone. That is quite understandable.
-Travis "it's all about the story, really" Edmunds
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