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Aside from miscellaneous distant thumpings, the workmen proper appear to have cleared off, although there's an ominous notice downstairs that the water will be off from 9 to 2 tomorrow for "necessary repairs". So this seems a good moment to start catching up with assorted Business: to wit, I've got all the paperwork for assembly of the Acknowledgements List together in the same place, and barring unforseen intrusions by overeager plumbers, that's what I fully intend to spend today working on...
But before I settle in with that: noting that RotK appears to have made some wins at the "Golden Globes" last night (I wasn't watching), I had been meaning, before all that nonsense with the workmen transpired, to set down some thoughts on how all those dragged-out multiple endings could perhaps have been resolved more neatly for the sake of the Cinematic Experience. So, forthwith, here's one way I might have handled adapting the material for the screen, given that since they'd already resolved to tick off the purists by omitting the 'Scouring of the Shire' episode anyway there wasn't really much point to being pedantic about the rest of it:
I think that would have covered the major points that needed to be covered in terms of tying up LotR-as-filmed-version; still understandably ticking off the purists, of course (it's unavoidable really), but structurally speaking much less of an impenetrable bog to wade through after you've already been trapped in your seat for 2 1/2 hours wondering how long the line for the bathroom is going to be. In particular I don't think having Aragorn's coronation off-screen would have done the film any more violence than the coronation scene as filmed did to the structure of the piece, since that would have better served to emphasize the Ring-Bearer as plot-spine of the three films -- which, after all, is what the ultimate point of the coronation scene as filmed is anyway, the punchline of the whole thing is the bowing to the Humble Hobbits after all. Emotionally satisfying as the coronation is to the aforementioned purists, it's a little clunky in terms of the overall film.
New Hampshire primary tomorrow. It's looking like Dean, Kerry, Clark, and Edwards, in some combination... >:) My sleep schedule is so screwed up frm the last three weeks of torment that it's worked itself around to waking up at 6 AM and falling asleep before 10PM, which is not conducive to election-night analysis fun... [sigh]
But before I settle in with that: noting that RotK appears to have made some wins at the "Golden Globes" last night (I wasn't watching), I had been meaning, before all that nonsense with the workmen transpired, to set down some thoughts on how all those dragged-out multiple endings could perhaps have been resolved more neatly for the sake of the Cinematic Experience. So, forthwith, here's one way I might have handled adapting the material for the screen, given that since they'd already resolved to tick off the purists by omitting the 'Scouring of the Shire' episode anyway there wasn't really much point to being pedantic about the rest of it:
- Frodo wakes up in the recovery room after the rescue from the lava field: wow, Gandalf, I thought you'd been killed by that balrog back in FotR!
- So, Mister Frodo, are you ready to head home to the Shire? Oh, no, Sam, I've been too hurt by all this... err, hitch a lift, Gandalf?
- Cut to dockside, Ring-Bearer amazed by crowd that has shown up to see him off, including a crowned Aragorn with Arm-candy -- err, Arwen :) -- by his side, other assorted dignitaries bowing to humble Hobbit etc etc etc but hopefully not as etc as filmed.
- And cut to Sam returning to the greetings of Rosie, "well, I'm back".
I think that would have covered the major points that needed to be covered in terms of tying up LotR-as-filmed-version; still understandably ticking off the purists, of course (it's unavoidable really), but structurally speaking much less of an impenetrable bog to wade through after you've already been trapped in your seat for 2 1/2 hours wondering how long the line for the bathroom is going to be. In particular I don't think having Aragorn's coronation off-screen would have done the film any more violence than the coronation scene as filmed did to the structure of the piece, since that would have better served to emphasize the Ring-Bearer as plot-spine of the three films -- which, after all, is what the ultimate point of the coronation scene as filmed is anyway, the punchline of the whole thing is the bowing to the Humble Hobbits after all. Emotionally satisfying as the coronation is to the aforementioned purists, it's a little clunky in terms of the overall film.
New Hampshire primary tomorrow. It's looking like Dean, Kerry, Clark, and Edwards, in some combination... >:) My sleep schedule is so screwed up frm the last three weeks of torment that it's worked itself around to waking up at 6 AM and falling asleep before 10PM, which is not conducive to election-night analysis fun... [sigh]
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