LOTR shippiness
Dec. 26th, 2002 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockOk, so. Apparently, and I had this all backwards before-- Aragorn marries Arwen at the end of Return of the King. For some strange reason I'd remembered him marrying the Rohan princess. Anyway, looking at the tTT movie, I've become conscious of two things:
1.) they REALLY sent Arwen away. They spent a long amount of screen time devoted to it, so I don't see how they'll explain her coming back except a really corny last-minute popping up form the New Zealand scenery with a declaration of love and a "Sorry I left you when your people were being slaughtered by the greatest force of dark the world has ever known; let's get married now that you're king."
2.) as you can probably guess from my semi-rant above, I don't think I WANT them together in the movie. The way it was in the movies, Arwen and Aragorn let me bored. They were pretty, but cold. Contrast to that, I thought Aragorn and the Rohan lady (banging forehead for the name...E-something) had great, sexy chemistry. And he seemed to be actively interested when he was around her, instead of reserved and serious like he was with Arwen. Eowyn (that's her name! Isn't it?) seemed more like someone who could be Aragorn's equal, a partner at his side instead of a goddess on a pedastal above him.
Now, this can all be attributed to directing and casting, as some actors just have different chemistry. And normally, a change like this would infuriate me as a fan. But oddly, I've found I would like the movie more if Arwen didn't come back and marry Aragorn, and if he chose the Rohan pricness instead.
1.) they REALLY sent Arwen away. They spent a long amount of screen time devoted to it, so I don't see how they'll explain her coming back except a really corny last-minute popping up form the New Zealand scenery with a declaration of love and a "Sorry I left you when your people were being slaughtered by the greatest force of dark the world has ever known; let's get married now that you're king."
2.) as you can probably guess from my semi-rant above, I don't think I WANT them together in the movie. The way it was in the movies, Arwen and Aragorn let me bored. They were pretty, but cold. Contrast to that, I thought Aragorn and the Rohan lady (banging forehead for the name...E-something) had great, sexy chemistry. And he seemed to be actively interested when he was around her, instead of reserved and serious like he was with Arwen. Eowyn (that's her name! Isn't it?) seemed more like someone who could be Aragorn's equal, a partner at his side instead of a goddess on a pedastal above him.
Now, this can all be attributed to directing and casting, as some actors just have different chemistry. And normally, a change like this would infuriate me as a fan. But oddly, I've found I would like the movie more if Arwen didn't come back and marry Aragorn, and if he chose the Rohan pricness instead.
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Date: 2002-12-27 11:22 am (UTC)I think this is all of a piece with Jackson's vision - we are constantly told that Isildur FAILED, and by extension that ALL men are Isildur's heirs and therefore subject to the same potential weakness that he is. In the books, really, Boromir is the ONLY person who falls prey to the Ring, and that's because he starts off as an insecure jerk and never really progresses beyond that point until the very, very end - given that they made such a point of saying that the Movie Boromir WAS a good man corrupted, I think it would have been impossible to have Faramir not even consider using the Ring for Gondor.
And he DOES resist temptation in the end - he lets Frodo go. The end result is the same with more dramatic conflict. I hope that we'll see more of Faramir in the extended version of the DVD because I want to get inside his head more ...