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To: HairOfTheDog
I know what you're referring to, and I agree. Jackson did have to show that Boromir is not to be trusted, and he did that well. It just seems like Boromir talks more in the movie because there's less other stuff going on.
425 posted on 05/03/2002 9:47:35 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB
Jackson shortened everyone else's speaking parts and left only Boromir's stuff! The sword that was broken was there, but moved. Would have been good to have Boromir at least speak of the dream and the verse...
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.

Wouldn't it have been neat to be in the room when they were writing the script, and debating what to put it, and what to leave out. What to move to a different place, and what to make up from scratch. There have to be reasons they felt the existing writing wouldn't work the way it was, or why would they go to the trouble of rewriting? I would never have made a good fly on the wall though... I would have had to speak up.

426 posted on 05/03/2002 9:58:11 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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