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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1897996" data-attributes="member: 812"><p>Okay.</p><p></p><p>*takes several deep breaths*</p><p></p><p>I get the impression I'm speaking too quietly, or in some language only I know how to speak. It seems I'm having a great deal of trouble communicating my basic point.</p><p></p><p>Let me try once more: I believe it is possible to make a film of these books that ends with the Scouring of the Shire. I do not believe it would have been a good idea to "tack on" such a sequence to the end of the films that Peter Jackson and his team made. You're right, the entire GOAL of the story of these films is to destroy the Ring. Adding the Scouring to THESE films won't work. I agree. I believe I have already said that I agree, but here I am, saying it again.</p><p></p><p>I agree that if you create a set of films in which the audience is told again and again that the point of this whole story is the destruction of the Ring, they will react to a lengthy set of sequences AFTER that event with frustration.</p><p></p><p>I thought it was obvious that the answer to that problem is NOT spend the movies telling the audience again and again that the whole point of this story is the destruction of the Ring. What I would suggest is that you make the whole point of the story the preservation of the Shire. I don't have a good solution off the top of my head -- we're talking about a pretty mammoth undertaking, here, so you'll have to forgive me that. But you don't "have to spend all this time focusing on the destruction of the Ring." Focus on preserving the Shire.</p><p></p><p>You will have to change many things from the book. That's inevitable when translating from page to screen.</p><p></p><p>Repeating variations on "In THESE films it won't work" does nothing to establish the notion that it's an impossible cinematic task. It's not impossible -- or at least nobody in this thread has offered any evidence to suggest it's impossible. They just keep saying over and over again that Peter Jackson didn't do it.</p><p></p><p>Which I agree with. I just wish I'd seen the Scouring, and I believe it's possible to create movies that would support such a presentation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1897996, member: 812"] Okay. *takes several deep breaths* I get the impression I'm speaking too quietly, or in some language only I know how to speak. It seems I'm having a great deal of trouble communicating my basic point. Let me try once more: I believe it is possible to make a film of these books that ends with the Scouring of the Shire. I do not believe it would have been a good idea to "tack on" such a sequence to the end of the films that Peter Jackson and his team made. You're right, the entire GOAL of the story of these films is to destroy the Ring. Adding the Scouring to THESE films won't work. I agree. I believe I have already said that I agree, but here I am, saying it again. I agree that if you create a set of films in which the audience is told again and again that the point of this whole story is the destruction of the Ring, they will react to a lengthy set of sequences AFTER that event with frustration. I thought it was obvious that the answer to that problem is NOT spend the movies telling the audience again and again that the whole point of this story is the destruction of the Ring. What I would suggest is that you make the whole point of the story the preservation of the Shire. I don't have a good solution off the top of my head -- we're talking about a pretty mammoth undertaking, here, so you'll have to forgive me that. But you don't "have to spend all this time focusing on the destruction of the Ring." Focus on preserving the Shire. You will have to change many things from the book. That's inevitable when translating from page to screen. Repeating variations on "In THESE films it won't work" does nothing to establish the notion that it's an impossible cinematic task. It's not impossible -- or at least nobody in this thread has offered any evidence to suggest it's impossible. They just keep saying over and over again that Peter Jackson didn't do it. Which I agree with. I just wish I'd seen the Scouring, and I believe it's possible to create movies that would support such a presentation. [/QUOTE]
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