Reply To: LotR revisited – what Peter Jackson got right and what he didn't

[Wolfie65 1253xp 0]

@elessar2590 – That’s exactly why I have to see the movies as separate entities from the book. Granted, there are things that work in books that cannot be translated onto the screen – and vice versa – but movie makers often do go quite far distorting the source material.

One of the worst examples of this is Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo, an excellent book, originally intended as a criticism of the destruction of  Medieval and Renaissance Paris to make room for the grand boulevards and mansions of the nouveaux riches and nobility.

I have probably seen about a dozen or so different film versions of this story and the only one that sticks fairly closely to most aspects of the book is a 1990s Japanese cartoon…..go figure.

All the others try to turn the story into some sort of twisted ‘love triangle’ type thing, disregarding the fact that, if anything, it should be a love pentacle…..Not to mention completely leaving out several characters central to the original story.