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<blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 1885748" data-attributes="member: 6318">I think the omission of Elrond's sons and Halbarad's Rangers was legitimate instances of compression. The treatment of Gimli is indefensible, though. Whether it's part of the modern (and obviously unTolkienesque) tendency to fetishize youth and beauty at the expense of strength and dependability, or just coincides with it, it's ugly and nasty.While I understand the reasons the scriptwriters gave for leaving out Tom, I don't like them: American films generally (and that's the mode these are in) tend to sacrifice too much at the altar of maintaining 'the plot'. To quote Mark Schilling's review of Howl's Moving Castle, 'Whereas the imaginative flights of Hollywood animators are nearly all in the service of character and plot, Miyazaki allows his mind and pencil to wander where they will, into the realm of pure flight or the bizarre world of dreams, where logic takes a holiday and meaning speaks from every stone.' And of course Tom was there to say precisely, there is more to this world than the conflict with Sauron.In its countercultural sense, a 'rant' is a long, extreme, articulate gonzo screed about something, such that I'm hesitant to call most alleged Internet 'rants' by the name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faraer, post: 1885748, member: 6318"] I think the omission of Elrond's sons and Halbarad's Rangers was legitimate instances of compression. The treatment of Gimli is indefensible, though. Whether it's part of the modern (and obviously unTolkienesque) tendency to fetishize youth and beauty at the expense of strength and dependability, or just coincides with it, it's ugly and nasty.While I understand the reasons the scriptwriters gave for leaving out Tom, I don't like them: American films generally (and that's the mode these are in) tend to sacrifice too much at the altar of maintaining 'the plot'. To quote Mark Schilling's review of [i]Howl's Moving Castle[/i], 'Whereas the imaginative flights of Hollywood animators are nearly all in the service of character and plot, Miyazaki allows his mind and pencil to wander where they will, into the realm of pure flight or the bizarre world of dreams, where logic takes a holiday and meaning speaks from every stone.' And of course Tom was there to say precisely, there [i]is[/i] more to this world than the conflict with Sauron. In its countercultural sense, a 'rant' is a long, extreme, articulate gonzo screed about something, such that I'm hesitant to call most alleged Internet 'rants' by the name. [/QUOTE]

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