Book vs movie Frodo
How is “book” Frodo different to “movie” Frodo?. A thoughtful article at National Review discusses the changes made by Peter Jackson to the character of Frodo.
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There’s actually a picture of the frodo from the vision on this site. Click here. http://www.councilofelrond.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=14088&orderby=titleA
ok, the link doesn’t work, but type in the URL should you wish to see this rather disturbing thing.
This article articulates pretty well what bothered me about the “go home Sam” line – it just isn’t something that the book Frodo would do. That friendship always seemed to be to be beyond the kind of rupture that Jackson envisioned.
(That and the “Arwen is dying – her fate is tied to the ring” – really! not necessary!)
Otherwise, love the movie – I expect to contribute to its world-wide gross at least four or five more times (I’ve now seen it twice – cried twice as hard at the second showing than I did at the first).
I totally agree with this article; why is it that poor Frodo’s character always has to be tampered with??
And when he told Sam to go home, I’m just like “Ah, God, this is going to be screwed up…” But by the end I thought the character was much closer to the original book version.
Yes, that professor said it better than I could have, but I was thinking about the same thing that PJ made Fro a slightly more corruptable character. There’s only one time before Mount Doom that Tolkien‘s Frodo *really* loses it…and that’s when he sees Samwise with the Ring. Bit unlike Gollum, Frodo had the wisdom to pull himself out of his jealous rage, at least up until the Crack of Doom!
Oh well, I love PJ’s Frodo, too…but there are some significant differences that are interesting to think about. ^_^
It’s interesting that Sam’s labeled as a ‘true believer’ in the article, and that Frodo is his religion, nearly. I hadn’t thought of it that way…
And that picture of ‘Gollodo’ is way freaky. Way freaky.