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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 9226555" data-attributes="member: 40176">The words he speaks in jest in the novel about the "happy chance" of finding such a prize being spoken in earnest in the movie is just gut-wrenching.Jackson had this idea which he explains in the Fellowship of the Ring commentary that the way the characters were in the novels was in many cases just too idealised for audiences to buy, so that the way he adapted them was to be on a journey from a less heroic space to grow into being the version from the novels. And that works fantastically for, say, Aragorn, who has all the screen-time in the world to make that journey. But for the characters with shorter arcs it tends to mean that we spend far too much of their screen time with the less heroic versions of them. Treebeard and Theoden suffer particularly from this, and with Faramir it's just tragic.</blockquote>