God Part III
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Screwtape2 said:
All films are basically adaptions in the sense that one is putting a vision that is confined to words and illustrations to film. It is what you do with it that determines how good the movie is. LOTR was just words on a page, basically colorless and mute. What Peter Jackson did was turn those words into a world that you could live in and touch. Middle Earth has a feel like no other place in film history.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
Films are indeed visions, not words, and Star Wars was never literature. It was a film, from the very beginning, as for so many other works of cinema. A script describes the pictures that had gone before it, not the other way round.
And yes, the LOTR movies are unique in that they are the only movies about LOTR, but there are so many films that have done this before with other universes and other stories.
LOTR is copy-paste filmmaking, and no cinematic achievement whatsoever, except for art direction.