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[Barb Fulton]

> On May 20, 2006, at 12:48 AM, mugg1eb0rn at ... wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've been one of the fans who stay pretty quiet on this list, 
but I  
> > guess I
> > have to put in my 2 knuts (or 200, given my wordiness) on this  
> > subject.
> >
> > I'm also one of those Tolkien fans who has loved the LotR books 
for  
> > over 35
> > years. (I once worked out how to sign my name in Quenya, and I  
> > still have the
> > bookmark I made kicking around the house somewhere.)
> >
> 
> (snip)
> 
Karen <kchuplis at ...> wrote:

> Nice post!! You said everything I was thinking. Spot on.


Barb now:

I agree with pretty much the whole post. With some movies, I can see 
why cuts and changes were made, and even though I may not agree with 
them, I can understand them and can accept them.

I loved the LOtR movies, and I love the books. I think that the 
movies are reasonable interpretations of the books. I'm not thrilled 
with all of the changes, but I understand them. Tom Bobadil could've 
been a movie of his own (my husband was incensed that he was cut, 
but I understood it), Arwen's part was in the Appendices, and I 
enjoyed her part of the movie. I felt the love that the moviemakers 
had for the books.

For HP, I separate the books from the movies. For the most part, I 
really enjoy the movies. I love the books dearly. I'm not happy with 
all of the changes, but for the most part, I understand why they 
were made and can get past them.

Now, I cannot say that about the DaVinci Code. Without going into 
much discussion, since this is not a DaVinci Code forum, I 
absolutely cannot understand why so many changes were made, and I 
felt angered and cheated by the end of the movie. The vast majority 
of the movie I enjoyed, but by the end, I was angry. They changed 
the very nature of some of the characters, and made so many changes 
that seemed to serve no purpose. These changes did not save time, 
did not cut down on the number of characters, did not make the plot 
easier to follow-I don't see any possible reason for making them.

To get back to HP, I loved GoF (book)-my absolute favorite book. 
It's also my favorite movie (I think, I change my mind relatively 
frequently on which my favorite movie is). There were many, many 
changes, but it was an enormously long book, and short of making 2 
movies (my ideal, but didn't happen), they did what they could with 
what they had, and I thought it was very enjoyable. It's not the 
movie I would've made, but then again, nobody really wants to see a 
movie I make (namely because I don't make movies!). If I can 
understand the reasons for the changes, then I can get past them and 
enjoy both the books and the movies. LoTR-yes. HP-yes. DaVinci-no.

-Barb