Jag wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 09:30, Casey Rousseau wrote: >> Erik Berman wrote: > >>> "Fellowship of the Rings" (call it what you will, but I can't say >>> that it is a pale reflection of the novel) >> >> FotR is a great flick. I haven't yet seen the longer edition that's >> on the Platinum edition DVD. It may add back the one major >> character (Tom Bombadil) and two or three chapters that were not in >> the theatrical release, but this was much closer to the text than >> Dune. >> > > I'm sorry, but no Tom Bombadil :( > However, there are some noticably missing scenes that were added back. > The ones I can think of are the swamps after Bree, and Galadrial > giving the Fellowship their presents from her. I believe there are a > few others, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. > >> The problems that both of these movies had to overcome is that there >> is a lot of the text that is not conversation. Jhereg would have a >> much shorter plot summary than either one, but also much less >> material that could be excised. > > I doubt they would excise much at all. All the Vlad novels are pretty > short, expecially compared to other books that tend to get turned into > movies. > Which I actually think is good, many book to movie interpretations suffer losing scenes because of it. > But then maybe the screenwriter would decide it needs more romance, > and do what the graphic novel folks did.. bring Cawti into Jhereg.[1] > That might give them enough extra material that they need to start > cutting stuff. Naw you don't pick a screen writer that thinks he should mess with major events in the universe because *he* wants to. That's how you end up with 'Spellbinder' instead of 'Spellbreaker' > > [1] Just so you know, I think this is a horrible idea. I think Jhereg > is fine without Cawti, and Yendi just wouldn't be the same without > their budding relationship. > > > Jag