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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theburningman" data-source="post: 549132" data-attributes="member: 1006">This is what I was trying to say above, although I didn't express it quite so well.  I can understand why some people have problems with some of the changes; I'm just glad that I don't have the same problems and that I can just completely lose myself in the visual world Jackson has brought to the screen.(BTW, on the director's commentary of the extended edition, PJ says that they spent so much time on the details of the world so that hopefully, no matter what problems a viewer might have with story or character, they wouldn't be able to gripe about the presentation of the world.  IMHO, he succeeded admirably.)I just saw TTT again on Monday.  As far as Theoden goes, I did see little instances of weakness and doubt, but as I said before, I think they make him more human.As for Faramir, I was really paying attention in his scenes of the movie this time, trying to watch as someone who has read the book, and simultaneously trying to watch as a casual movie-goer.  When my nephew and his friend and I were talking later, it hit me:To a casual viewer, who has no idea what awaits Frodo and Sam in Mordor, it was necessary for dramatic tension that Faramir present more of an obstacle than in the book.  If Frodo and Sam had had the same encounter with Faramir as they had in the book, it would have completely destroyed any sense of urgency and menace in the movie.  By making Faramir seem more of a threat than he actually is, they preserved the tension in the film for the casual movie-goer.  Films are made of set-pieces and it's obvious that the Battle of Helm's Deep and the March of the Ents were intended to be the climactic set pieces of this part.  It would have been rather anti-climactic for Frodo and Sam to sit around talking to Faramir and company for a few minutes before he sent them on their merry way.Plus, add in what danbala said.  If Faramir doesn't even struggle with the ring (there is very little evidence he struggles at all with it in the book), then the audience is left scratching it's head.  "If it's so hard for Frodo to resist the ring, why doesn't it affect Faramir when he is presented with it?"</blockquote>

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