As an amusing point tom, you ctually justified my lotr statement by
referring to the 2nd film as "the twin towers"
Because of shear bad luck the film came out only a couple of years after
september the eleventh, and a lot of americans were irritated at the title
"the two towers" even though it had nothing to do with the world trade
center (I remember reading one artical at the time where one extremely angry
American crytic asked "who is this tolkien guy anyway, ---- you'd think he
wasn't even american!" ;D).
This is why, though the title of the film wasn't changed, in a lot of
promotional material, interviews etc they referd to it as "the twin towers"
which is not correct according to what tolkien wrote back in the 1940's at
all.
As to It and harry potter I totally agree.
The only potter film I thought came even close to the book is Prisoner of
Ascaban, and that was more because of it's dark, gothic atmosphere which
replaced Cris Columbus' shiny, happy directing that just didn't fit the
Potter world at all, ---- even aside from plot manglings.
with lotr though for me the situation is worse. As The encyclopedia of Arda
said, Tolkien himself didn't think of what he did as writing fantasy, he
thought of it as writing history which just happened to be untrue.
thus, Lotr is a historical novel set around the bakcground of a fully
documented and well accounted war. As such, monkeying with the events is not
just a case of hollywood dumming down things for the public and sticking in
lots of extra action scenes for no good reason, it's actually more like
having a novel about the second world war and suddenly deciding to stick in
lots of holywoodisms, extra battles, more heroic characters etc.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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