New Ending for ROTK????

[Bill_the_Pony]

http://thetravisty.com/Just_Funny/wmv/Lord_of_The_Rings_-_New_Ending.htm

WTF? :dunno:

[Jarl]

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-I woulda rather have seen the Shire scoured. But that would have added another four and a half hours to the movie.

[DarkJedi]

Dude.


Bill......That creeped me the hell out.

[alaristhered]

Bill, as always, thanks for sharing!

When I first watched the FOTR DVD with director and writer commentary, and they said there would be no scouring, my husband and I both gasped in shock. But in retrospect, I think they made the right decision. It works in a book. It wouldn't work in a film; the timing would be completely thrown, and the impact of the final scene would have been diminished.

[Rowanberry]

Fortunately, that wasn't the real ending. :D

But, I also agree that on film, having the four hobbits return to the Shire after being to hell and back, and nobody having the slightest idea of what they've been through, and from what the land has been saved, works actually better than the Scouring would have worked. It gives more focus to the events on Mount Doom, as well as Frodo's inability to return to normal life after all he has experienced.

[alaristhered]

The 2nd time we saw ROTK, it was with a friend of ours who had not yet read the books. (Happy to announce that since then, he has!) He was deeply moved by the scene in the Green Dragon when the four friends are just kind of looking at each other. He said it was as if they were saying, "What is it that we used to laugh about, anyway?" So for him, it was a perfect ending.

[Quasar]

I don't get it. Wasn't that the actual ending of ROTK? :jump:

[Space Tycoon]

But, I also agree that on film, having the four hobbits return to the Shire after being to hell and back, and nobody having the slightest idea of what they've been through, and from what the land has been saved, works actually better than the Scouring would have worked. It gives more focus to the events on Mount Doom, as well as Frodo's inability to return to normal life after all he has experienced.

I have always said, that since there is no defintive or "official" film version of LOTR, then it is more than likely that someday, someone will put together a mini-series version, sort of like the Dune series. They will be less constrained by time considerations and will probably include the Scouring, Bombadil, etc. It will be more in line with the books. Whether it will be more entertaining than the movies, is another story.

[alaristhered]

When I saw the Mensa LA screening of ROTK with Philippa, Fran and Howard's Q & A, Philippa said as much. She said that if LOTR was a TV series, there would be one episode dedicated to Tom, and another to the Scouring.

[Rowanberry]

In a TV series, the pacing can be slower without the story losing any of its suspense, and one is able to include more turns of the plot, background info, etc. In a movie, time is a severely limiting factor; one simply cannot include everything even in three 3.5 to 4 hour movies that can be put into a 20-hour TV show.

I do hope that, someone sometime is willing to take up an attempt to adapt the LOTR into a TV series that would remain closer to the book than the movies did, and that it would happen in my lifetime.

[Strider]

I'd defintely watch something like that. :D

[Bill_the_Pony]

Not if Sci-Fi Channel makes it. :angry I mean, :)

[ellenora]

Well... that left me... speechless.

~elle

[ellenora]

I would hope so too Rowanberry. Now that special effects are up to the challenge... is there a director or a network willing to invest the time, money and energy in such a proposal? Or are the films too fresh in everyone's mind? Should they wait a few more years?

When Bankin-Rass and Ralph Bakshi did the animated versions, they were initially hailed as the only way JRRT's vision could ever be filmed. PJ and his vision of the novel have proven them wrong. But did he do too good a job? Would anyone attempting to do anything in the near future have his/her project doomed by comparisons with the Oscar winning films?

[supergoose]

Cheers for sharing, most comical