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Originally Posted by The Procrastinator  Grim: It wasn't just the shortening, it was the character-and-function-mangling. Faramir was presented as a counterfoil to his brother Boromir - where Boromir was a "modern" man, representing the new way and the way that would eventually prevail, Faramir was something of a throwback, not unlike Aragorn himself - an echo of the past revived - along with Aragorn, he represented the brief flowering that was to come before the long slow decline/change. His character served a purpose in the larger theme - the lament for the things that are passing away - or it did in the book, anyway.  |
Hmm, never meant to imply that Faramir was a travesty because he was shortened (apologies if it reads that way). No, no, no, whether it's the way they:
1. took Faramir's quote "...I could take it...now!" and used it to turn him into a villian for 15 minutes;
2. portrayed his release of Frodo & Sam in the middle of a skirmish in Osgiliath that NEVER happened in the book; or
3. completely missed the fact that he's supposed to be the more Numenorean of the brothers ("...the blood of the line of stewards runs nearly true in him, but does not in Boromir..." or something close to it)
Faramir in LOTR the movie was a travesty, period.
