One of my original worries before seeing the movie was the casting. But that turned into one of my main joys, since everyone was perfectly cast (even Galadriel :->). Every time you want to say how perfect one was, such as Pippin, you think of another, like Wood as Frodo. A wrong Frodo would have pretty well screwed up the movie...luckily Wood is great.
But am a little unsure about the guy they've cast as Theoden...I suppose I'll end up liking him anyway...
I just posted this at the "recasting" thread, and I like what I said enough to repeat it.... I got to thinking about the remodel of our beach house, where my brother and dad now still live...
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Sorry, but the thing with Arwen taking Frodo across the river still chaps my bum
They make a good salve for that!
Hehehehe - There are parts of the movie that chap my bum too... but not that part. (Mine is the Galadriel Halloween Ghost part)
There are parts of the book that I read through and wonder - Now why didn't PJ just leave it this way? Other places it worked to change the dialogue and I like it just fine.
I am reminded of when we were remodeling our house. We knew what we wanted to do, which was basically to preserve as much about the house as possible, while adding a few new improvements. It is an heirloom house that I grew up visiting on every special occasion. It needed to remain the same house.
We hired an architect to help us with the planning, and he first came back with a drawing of a beautiful house that was just not ours. The little things that meant so much to us, were just a window, or just a wall, to him, and could be eliminated or moved.
As an architect, he saw our house as his palette... He wanted to put his signature on it... And had we let him, he would have created a beautiful, but different house.
He eventually came around to drawings which were exactly what we wanted. We used a couple of his ideas, but I am sure he wonders why we paid the big bucks to a designer so that we could design it ourselves.
To me it feels like the same conflict of emotions...
PJ put his own fingerprint on the story. His vision was beautiful. Some of us that were around before liked the old window more, but I am getting used to the new one, and the house is still ours.