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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theburningman" data-source="post: 1279588" data-attributes="member: 1006">Without bragging too much, let me say that I wish I had had an eighth grade teacher as cool as I am.  Today (the last day before Christmas break), we spent the morning before lunch watching FotR, and the afternoon watching TTT.  Not a bad way to spend a school day, huh?  I figure I'm going to single-handedly raise RotK's box office take by about $1500, since almost all of my 130 students said they were going to get their parents to take them to see it this weekend. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Anyway, while we were watching it, I was really focusing on details that I hadn't noticed before, and how they paid off in RotK.  I can't remember who it was on this thread who commented about Frodo's abrupt decision to send Sam away and how it just wasn't believable.  I might have been inclined to agree with them before today, but not anymore.Frodo's Ring-induced paranoia and distrust are built very steadily through the first two movies.  In Lothlorien he imagines that the others are giving him evil looks.  In TTT he often sides with Gollum against Sam, most of the time because he is inspired by pity like Bilbo was.  When I take the progression through all three movies, Frodo's abandonment of Sam doesn't seem abrupt or out of character at all to me.  It also serves to ramp up the tension for the audience.  Maybe it could have been done more closely to the book, but I'm not sure it would make for a better film scene.My two cents.</blockquote>

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