I confess that I saw TWILIGHT with a MST3K type voice-over and the movie, according to a friend who read the book and saw the movie, is lousy in comparison. IT suffers (beyond wish fulfillment YA angst) from the same thing they did to Frodo in LOTR:Fellowship (et al) -- all the things that made Frodo so admirable, and the person able to carry the ring, were stripped from the movie. I must assume that all the little things that should have shown our heroine to be resilient, interesting and not afraid of a vampire, were stripped from TWILIGHT the movie.
As I writer, I resent that. And that crap about Arwen becoming human -- actually tossing aside the tragedy of her future choice, because she's not human. She has to either choose to die, or live on forever and never know if there is something in the next world where they could be together again.
I think Tolkien would have liked many things about the movies -- even a few changes that were understandable and well-done, like the signal fires and Arwen carrying Frodo to the ford (more screen time for important characters and a heroine who is hands-on with her magic)-- but he would be upset that the writers of the screenplay took away all the choices from the good guys, many that gave his characters their gentle nobility. Even if the visuals were perfect (and Boromir's part was better written.)
Hummm? An Alfreda89 button? Perhaps. Perhaps I should write about this "taking a character and removing everything we liked about him/her" thing. But I confess that the Benny Hill music with him running up the mountain with her on his back had me ready to fall off the couch laughing.
Eventually I really enjoyed BORED OF THE RINGS (a bit dated, but still a fun parody of the book LOTR). If you can handle the transition, you might try the MST3K type parody (can't remember the name for it) of TWILIGHT.
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As I writer, I resent that. And that crap about Arwen becoming human -- actually tossing aside the tragedy of her future choice, because she's not human. She has to either choose to die, or live on forever and never know if there is something in the next world where they could be together again.
I think Tolkien would have liked many things about the movies -- even a few changes that were understandable and well-done, like the signal fires and Arwen carrying Frodo to the ford (more screen time for important characters and a heroine who is hands-on with her magic)-- but he would be upset that the writers of the screenplay took away all the choices from the good guys, many that gave his characters their gentle nobility. Even if the visuals were perfect (and Boromir's part was better written.)
Hummm? An Alfreda89 button? Perhaps. Perhaps I should write about this "taking a character and removing everything we liked about him/her" thing. But I confess that the Benny Hill music with him running up the mountain with her on his back had me ready to fall off the couch laughing.
Eventually I really enjoyed BORED OF THE RINGS (a bit dated, but still a fun parody of the book LOTR). If you can handle the transition, you might try the MST3K type parody (can't remember the name for it) of TWILIGHT.