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Book to movie inconsistencies that are genuinely annoying and unneeded
Orbert:
--- Quote from: MrSteevo on 22 May 2009, 08:05 ---In the book Frankenstein we had a monster. A monster of incredible speed, strength, and agility. He was 8 feet tall, had lustrous black hair, and could speak proper english.
No matter how hard I try I can't find a movie with such a monster in it. He's usually slow and strong, which is not how the book describes him at all. So I ask, why? Why did they feel the need to slow him down?
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This is the version you want
Michael Sarrazin was not eight feet tall, but he was dark-haired and dashing. As a bonus, young Jane Seymour plays Prima, and James Mason is Polidori. This was a television production and I have no idea whether it's available on video, but it's a great version.
el_loco_avs:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 07 May 2009, 13:13 ---My favourite part of the book, was easily where the Rohirrim arrived at the start of the seige, right after Gandalf denies the Witch King, and then cut their way through the ranges of orks. The way Tolkien described this moment of despair for Gondor, and how the men of the West thought they were completely alone, and then the Rohirrim arrived, and Eowyn kills the Witch King was amazing. And then the arrival of the Aragorn on the boats.
The movie in no way did it justice.
EDIT: and of course the taking out of Tom Bombadil, although I understand why.
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Try the extended edition. Witch King goes all FLAMING SWORD!! on Gandalf when the Rohirrim arrive. If that happened original version I'd have been scared they went mad and were gonna kill off Gandalf or something.
Extended edition also puts back the AMAZINGLY CREEPY mouth of Sauron.
MadassAlex:
--- Quote from: el_loco_avs on 27 May 2009, 02:00 ---Extended edition also puts back the AMAZINGLY CREEPY mouth of Sauron.
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Although his scene is diminished in the movie due to timeline consistency. That's to say, the timeline is correct, but the books are expressed differently. The Two Towers and The Return Of The King explain the Aragorn/Gandalf/Gimli/Legolas/Merry/Pippin parts in full, and then switch over completely to the Frodo/Sam parts in the second half. So when you read about the Mouth Of Sauron in the books, and he presents the tokens, you think shit has hit the fan and everything is fucked. You think that Sauron has the Ring and Frodo's dead and Aragorn will never found the House Of Telcontar or anything because Sauron just achieved a level of power that Morgoth would be proud of.
Trauco:
Completely off topic, and i registered just to tell you this,
wanna get even more pissed about the Dune movie that Lynch directed?
just check what we missed:
http://derelictplanet.blogspot.com/2009/04/about-dune.html
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Moebius
H.R. Giger
Chris Foss
Pink floyd
Salvator fucking Dali
This really makes me wanna cry
TheFuriousWombat:
Dali wanted $100,000 for one hour on set? What a douche.
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