The LOTR Movie Site December 14, 2000 Media Adaption All the people who are ranting about things they find "wrong" with the few things we know about the movie are missing a fundamental point. The medium. You must have an understanding for the medium every story is told in, and that the same story can not be told in the exact same way in two different mediums. When adapting a book to the film medium, there's going to be compromises. In a movie, you can't see what a character is thinking. A passage covering the details of a flower or a house could use up an entire page in a book, but in a film it would not be of any interest to see it for more than a few seconds at most. This leads to compromises and alternate ways of delivering to the audience what they would get from reading the written text. And we must always remember that neither Peter Jackson nor
you or me have a "correct" perception of these books, we merely have our own
interpretations. In fact Tolkien, as any writer, had his own view of what he has written
and there is NO CHANCE that you see everything as he did! Therefore we must accept this
movie for what it will be: One man's interpretation of three books. |