[HairOfTheDog]

Well, even Matthew, Mark, Luke and John each told Christ's story a little bit differently. Also vital to a retelling is a shared love for the story that doesn't mock it.

I think PJ, and the cast for that matter, love the story as much as we do... so I accept their flaws in not reading it exactly the same as HairOfTheDog. I am just glad they liked it too.

[BradyLS]

Well, even Matthew, Mark, Luke and John each told Christ's story a little bit differently. Also vital to a retelling is a shared love for the story that doesn't mock it.

Good point. But I don't think any version of their story fundementally changes who Christ was. Jackson felt the need to change fundementally who, for example, Faramir was. He also changed who Treebeard was and what Ents are.

And who Aragorn was. Thanks to the return of Gandalf, Aragorn had great faith in Gandalf's reappearance at Helm's Deep: "Now get you gone! No man knows what the dawn will bring him!" Jackson didn't share that faith and lessened Aragorn to show some human aspect of his character that was already displayed at when Boromir died.