You make Faramir sound less comfortable with a sword and comfortable with a Swiffer and an apron.
I know when they do movies, because they have timetables, deadlines, and budgets, they will start with mockups of costumes and characters to see if what is in the book will work on screen. They generally only make changes when it’s not coming across well. I know for a fact that Peter Jackson told the actors that they had to play the parts straight and there would be no room for any sardonic attitudes, if the parts called for being emotionally vulnerable to each other.
His main characteristic was incorruptibility and I thought they captured it. He held the ring and had no temptation to put it on. They probably changed his personality to account for the fact that he was a warrior-prince and wasn’t his habit to cry into his souffle. :P
“His main characteristic was incorruptibility and I thought they captured it. He held the ring and had no temptation to put it on.”
He tried to bring it back to his father (as Boromir had), rather than see it for the danger that it was. In the book he didn’t waver, and that distinction was important. He was supposed to be of the race of men who hadn’t yet been “lessened”.