Extended Edition of FotR!!

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by olsonm
I wonder if anyone actually worships PJ?

JD: You did say he could come up with no excuse, not no excuse that you would except. I was just pointing out the obvious. The most obvious reason is that he thought; "Gosh, Frodo's moment of solitary defiance at the ford is great. I wish he had a moment like that at the end of the movie instead of in the middle." That's it. No hidden messages, no secret agendas. Just Peter "My movies are slices of cake." Jackson shifting elements of Frodo's character around so the movie would have a more conventional ending.

Well then as I said back when the movie first casme out - he dumbed it down for the masses.

In actuality - in the book Frodo DID NOT have a defining moment at the end. He was taken over by the Ring and was going to claim it for himself. The only reason it got destroyed was because gullum came and attacked him and fell into Mt Doom after he bit off Frodo's finger.

But I suppose Jackson will change that too - so it's "more traditional ending". Must have the hero be the clear cut hero. I can see it - Frodo will have a defiant fit of strength. Gullum will come after him. Frodo takes the ring in his hand and tells Gullum - "you want it - go and get it!" and throws the ring into the fire of Mt Doom. Gullum runs after it and plunges to his death into Mt Doom. The "you want it - go and get it" fits in real nice with the "you want him - come and claim him".

The extended version is good - but it just proves to me that all Jackson did was make a mass marketed dumbed down movie.