The biggest plot deviation, and disappointment of ROTK to my mind is the treatment of Denethor. In the book he is a noble lord of ancient linage, who knows full well the history of the ring, and in his pride thinks he is equal to the task of matching wills with the dark lord. And it is his inability to put aside his pride (like Farimir and Borimir is the end) that dooms him.
In the movie he just seems like a mean old fool. And what where the city guard doing when Gandalf conked Denethor on the head? All looking the other way? Obviously their opinion of their lord wasn't that much higher than Jackson's.
I forgave the many changes of the first two movies (made particularly better by the extended editions), some where necessary to adapt the book to a movie, a few even enhanced the story to some degree (as far as a movie going audience was concerned). But the third movie just really bugged me every time I watched it. I am hoping it can be redeemed by the extended edition, but I expect it wont.
I think the reason you cant remember much back past a certain age is because you have no frame of reference to hang the memory on. I mean for example, as a fetus, your nervous system isn't very well developed and there is nothing in your brains experience to say 'this event is like that event' and therefore create any long term memory. Also from what I understand of my own kids, even at birth the human nervous system and brain are still developing, and we don't fully grow our big brains until some years after we are born, so I guess it's like we are born with the emergency boot disk kernel, and can't load the full OS until later.
Personally, I remember a couple of key events quite clearly from when I was two - like seeing my sister when she was born at the hospital. And I think i remember fragments of events before that, but I am not 100% sure I am not 'falsely' remembering because someone told me about it at a later date and I reconstructed the memory from my imagination. I guess that's the trouble with really early memories.
For many years as a child I had dreams of 'the stuff' (what else to call it), which was just this grey, tough sort of stuff that (disgusting as it sounds) seemed most like mucus on taste and smell, with a smooth rubbery tactile quality, and the property that the more you pulled or pushed it the stronger it got or pushed back.
I had almost completely forgotten about those dreams as an adult, until I was at the birth of my first son. Then, it must have been a smell of the birth fluid or a combination of things, I remembered the dreams and it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps those dreams we the earliest memory from grasping or pushing at the womb from before I was born.
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The biggest plot deviation, and disappointment of ROTK to my mind is the treatment of Denethor. In the book he is a noble lord of ancient linage, who knows full well the history of the ring, and in his pride thinks he is equal to the task of matching wills with the dark lord. And it is his inability to put aside his pride (like Farimir and Borimir is the end) that dooms him.
In the movie he just seems like a mean old fool. And what where the city guard doing when Gandalf conked Denethor on the head? All looking the other way? Obviously their opinion of their lord wasn't that much higher than Jackson's.
I forgave the many changes of the first two movies (made particularly better by the extended editions), some where necessary to adapt the book to a movie, a few even enhanced the story to some degree (as far as a movie going audience was concerned). But the third movie just really bugged me every time I watched it. I am hoping it can be redeemed by the extended edition, but I expect it wont.
I think the reason you cant remember much back past a certain age is because you have no frame of reference to hang the memory on. I mean for example, as a fetus, your nervous system isn't very well developed and there is nothing in your brains experience to say 'this event is like that event' and therefore create any long term memory. Also from what I understand of my own kids, even at birth the human nervous system and brain are still developing, and we don't fully grow our big brains until some years after we are born, so I guess it's like we are born with the emergency boot disk kernel, and can't load the full OS until later.
Personally, I remember a couple of key events quite clearly from when I was two - like seeing my sister when she was born at the hospital. And I think i remember fragments of events before that, but I am not 100% sure I am not 'falsely' remembering because someone told me about it at a later date and I reconstructed the memory from my imagination. I guess that's the trouble with really early memories.
For many years as a child I had dreams of 'the stuff' (what else to call it), which was just this grey, tough sort of stuff that (disgusting as it sounds) seemed most like mucus on taste and smell, with a smooth rubbery tactile quality, and the property that the more you pulled or pushed it the stronger it got or pushed back.
I had almost completely forgotten about those dreams as an adult, until I was at the birth of my first son. Then, it must have been a smell of the birth fluid or a combination of things, I remembered the dreams and it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps those dreams we the earliest memory from grasping or pushing at the womb from before I was born.
Weird eh.
That's no less intelligent that the majority of conversations on irc or msn. But becasue of it's novelty it is more interesting.