http://www.greencine.com/article?action=view&articleID=62&pageID=104&
I noticed quite a lot of discussion about changes apparently made to the Faramir character from the book (haven’t read it yet myself). PJ explains.
Also includes several other TTT related interviews including Christopher Lee and Andy Serkis: the actor who plays Gollum. Good stuff.
Excellent article. Clears alot of things up actually. Thank you.
Yes, thanks, CyberPundit. I’m feeling better about the plot deviations all the time – this helps.
Thank you. Beautiful. I’d hypothesized something quite close to Jackson’s explanation for why they changed Faramir. Very interesting, and the other stuff is great.
Thanks a lot for the link; it definitely clears up a lot. I still don’t agree with the change(s) to Faramir’s character, but I at least finally can understand why they were done. (Before, it just seemed arbitrary and simplistic).
I finally got around to reading the rest of the “interviews” and wanted to ]b]vent** here. Kudos to them on their thoroughly ham-handed and obnoxious handling of John Rhys-Davies’ interview. Ask a loaded question about parallels between LotR and current political issues, and then act all shocked when an actor gives a well-informed opinion on the question that happens to differ from your own. We can’t print that! At least not without a long-winded disclaimer at the start that refutes everything our interview subject is about to say! And what did Rhys-Davies have to say about the movies themselves, ostensibly the topic the website should be concerning itself with? We’ll never know; they’re too busy apologizing for the horrible actions of the United States.
There’s so much of this garbage that’s been getting published on the internet for the last year or so that I’d wear out trying to respond to all of it, even if I did limit myself to forums where it was an appropriate topic (unlike this one). So I’ll just keep it to this: damn them for making me have to feel like a conservative.
SolGrundy, I agree with you 100%. The fact that they feel they have to additionally counter Mr Rhys-Davies’ opinions with those of two other actors from the film is, frankly, a flagrant case of loading the deck in the favor of their personal opinions.
I am reminded of Pulp Fiction…
“If my answers frighten you, then you should cease to ask scary questions.”
Indeed.
Hmm what was the exact question asked? I can’t seem to find it. I do feel that Rhys-Davies’s rant was a good deal more than a simple “meaning/relevance of LOTR” question warranted. So I don’t feel that the editors were wrong in putting up some kind of response though they probably went too far themselves.