Also, I do agree with you & Mews about that scene in the film - I'm certain that anyone who hadn't read the books would be at a loss to understand exactly why Frodo was leaving.
Alas, I think it only contributes more of the sense that film-Frodo is an awfully fragile, sensitive little thing, blown about by every wind and prey to every emotional crisis.
They were doing a poll of film fans of "favourite hobbit;" Frodo was beat out by Sam (huge winner), and even Merry. *sob*
Again, it's not like I don't love film-Frodo, I do. But, remember, whenever I watch the films, the whole while my mind is "filling in" material about Frodo from the book, while I watch. I never see film-Frodo any other way.
Even if the film skipped over the Barrow scene, or Frodo talking ably and wisely (like a fellow prince) with the Lord Faramir, or if it failed to show the extent of his nobility and the depth of his mercy in the scene with Saruman in the Scouring, I am thinking all those things as I watch -- as if all that actually was filmed but is somewhere on the cutting room floor, LOL.
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Date: 2006-04-23 08:32 pm (UTC)Alas, I think it only contributes more of the sense that film-Frodo is an awfully fragile, sensitive little thing, blown about by every wind and prey to every emotional crisis.
They were doing a poll of film fans of "favourite hobbit;" Frodo was beat out by Sam (huge winner), and even Merry. *sob*
Again, it's not like I don't love film-Frodo, I do. But, remember, whenever I watch the films, the whole while my mind is "filling in" material about Frodo from the book, while I watch. I never see film-Frodo any other way.
Even if the film skipped over the Barrow scene, or Frodo talking ably and wisely (like a fellow prince) with the Lord Faramir, or if it failed to show the extent of his nobility and the depth of his mercy in the scene with Saruman in the Scouring, I am thinking all those things as I watch -- as if all that actually was filmed but is somewhere on the cutting room floor, LOL.