Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:32:15 +0100, Bertel Lund Hansen
<rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> wrote:

Snidely wrote:
>

The only time this was not the case was when watching "Lord of the
Rings". Book and film matched perfectly. I should add that it's been
several decades since I read the book.

 
I presume you're referring to the films out of New Zealand, which
generally get a lot of praise.

>
Yes.

If you re-read the novel and re-watch the films reasonably closely
together, you may find that PJ and JRRT are, in fact, telling two
different stories. Bakshi's first half is actually closer to JRRT's
story that PJ's films are.

OTOH, the Harry Potter films tell the same stories as the books, even
the later ones, where way more than half the book doesn't make it into
the film. They are very focused.

The problem isn't that changes are made -- changes are always made
when a book is filmed. The problem is that the changes make no sense
at all until you realize that PJ treated the book as a series of
Action Sequences separated by boring things like character development
or plot.
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