News at 11: Hollywood has learned nothing
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I’ve been called a book purist for criticizing modern adaptations. I get certain things in a book don’t translate to screen or there are time constraints (like not having battle of the Shire in LOTR). Just seems like modern day adaptations are vehicles for a hack showrunner to inject their viewpoints or social agendas like Wheel of Time or that Anne of Green Gables Netflix show
The Scouring of the Shire should have been removed from the book too. Does nothing for the story and kills the ending. His books have so much unnecessary fluff and distracting crap in them, any decent editor could take a hatchet to them and lose nothing.
I can understand. If I like an author I don’t mind extra stuff like that and that is much more tolerable than some showrunner injecting their crap into someone else’s story like diversity, lgbt, refugee allegory, etc.
But from an editors view there is plenty you could cut
I'd cut out the 4 chapters of gandalf and pippin riding across the plains and talking about rohan and grass while we just left frodo and same on a cliffhanger, frodo possibly dead from Shelob. Oh and bombadil. Put that over in the Hobbit and have the sword just be a gift from Bilbo.
Terrible pacing all round actually.
The one thing the movies shouldn't have cut was the mouth of sauron. That changes everything.