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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 1910950" data-attributes="member: 10397">It could mean that. But I think its more likely it just means that certain things are expected to be a certain way in big motion pictures. I think PJ would have done the scene as it was in the book if it were entirely up to him. But big time movies are expected to have a "hero saves the day" sort of ending, which the original ending of Return of the King is not.I think since nobody on this thread has (I dont think) met or spoken with Peter Jackson, it might be a good idea not to so easily throw around statements about what he did or did not understand. Obviously as director he had a lot of control, but I'm sure there were things he was made to do that he was not happy with.Anyway...I was pretty happy with it overall myself. My only big issue was the Gandalf/Witch-King scene which was simply silly on many levels. Gandalf, even with the limits placed on him is many many times more powerful than the WK...and the staff-breaking is just too symbolic.Also, overall I wish that he hadnt had that tendency to always put Aragorn forth as the strong one, and have Gandalf fade into the back a bit...as in the Mouth of Sauron scene. It was Gandalf who dismissed the Mouth.Also although it was nifty, I would just as soon had had the MoS be a more or less normal person as he was in the book.</blockquote>