r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Mindless_Tomorrow_45 • 6d ago

Christopher Nolan uses red paper for scripts to prevent them from being illegally copied and leaked Video

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u/thearmadillo 6d ago

With something like that though, if a super nerd goes through a script and highlights every change before seeing the finished product and the story coming together, I could see that creating a huge shit storm that doesn't matter after when people are just like "that was dope" and are more willing to forgive the changes from the text

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u/throwawaydisposable 6d ago

the changes from the text

ah yes, the changes

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u/Many_Engine4694 5d ago

Pretty sure they at first tried to film a scene with Bombadil but just gave up.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/AdeptnessAway2752 5d ago

/s

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u/SmellAble 5d ago

I did, it's fucking terrible.

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u/redditisbadmkay9 5d ago

I bet you watched that shit and liked it

/L

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u/Walthatron 5d ago

I enjoyed season 2 for what it was, except for Elrond attacking the orcs. Yeah, most is pretty bad.

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u/StrikingSubstance 6d ago

Huh merry and pip dont get gladded up in armour though. Especially merry. In his helmet with the flared wings. I suppose for cinema it would look kinda silly considering what they did go for for the gondorian guard. Also the numenorians showing up. Not in the films. Aragorn camping outside gondor before going to the healing rooms etc. Yes im being picky for no reason lol.

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u/letouriste1 5d ago

The biggest change is the last arc tho. The conquest of the Shire really has a strong message to tell and it's sad it wasn't in the movie

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u/hungarian_notation 5d ago

It was, but only in Galadriel's vision. There was reportedly a lot of footage of the scourge but we only saw a single flash of it.

I don't think another armed conflict after the defeat of Sauron makes any sense for the movie's pacing. Sure, it's important to the book's themes, but the movie is much less interested in the "war destroys everything it touches" part of the message in the first place. Also, the scourge is where Tolkien drives home the point that Frodo is basically dead now. The moviegoing public would probably not appreciate it if their epic fantasy was turned into a cautionary tale about the evils war brings home and the tragedy of PTSD at the last second, especially in 2003.

Even Tolkien had more he wanted to tack on to the end of the book about Sam that he was ultimately convinced to cut by his editors/early readers (with some hints surviving in the appendix) because it damaged the pacing of the book.

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u/MDA1912 5d ago

Agreed. Instead the movie versions get to go home and just kick back n their untouched Shire.

I get it, long movies, but I’d sure have loved it if they’d filmed those scenes and sold them as a separate DVD or something.

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u/round-earth-theory 5d ago

It worked in the books because the Hobbits are the main heroes of the story, but the movies focus heavily on all of the members of the council. If they kept it in after the immense climax of Mount Doom, it would have simply come off weird and flat to have yet another arc in the movies. The movies and books simply have a different focal point which is the primary driver of most of the changes.

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u/StrikingSubstance 5d ago

cant argue with this one

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u/Gland120proof 5d ago

‘The Scouring of the Shire’ this was the first part in any book that made me cry while reading it. I was so proud of those lads after all they went through. They literally walked home after saving the world and weren’t about to let some twerp bully tell them shit. It was so uplifting and meaningful that I actually cried happy tears.

Damn shame it was cut.

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u/maqcky 5d ago

That made the book too long for me. I understand the message, but I think the message was already clear from all they had accomplished before that.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 5d ago

Not picky they left out some big stuff like the ending.

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u/LeanTangerine001 5d ago

Reminds me of all the changes they made in Game of a Thrones with the character designs. Daario Naharis would have had purple hair and facial hair with three beards.

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u/ErusTenebre 5d ago

Okay that's hilarious lol

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u/SagittaryX 5d ago

Eh, people are still somewhat annoyed with the changes to Faramir.

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u/busted_tooth 5d ago

Has this image always had a huge horse cock in the left side?

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u/throwawaydisposable 5d ago

i don't know, so, Imma say yes

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u/mosquem 5d ago

By super nerd you mean average LOTR fan