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   From: ronc@europa.com   
      
   On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:27:39 +0200, Sandman  wrote:   
      
   >In article , Ronald O.   
   >Christian  wrote:   
      
   >> Faramir was portrayed as  intelligent and a shrewd enough judge of   
   >> character that you could imagine him letting Frodo and Sam continue   
   >> on their way, yet it was not a stretch to see him as a leader of   
   >> men and lopping off a few goblin heads.  Both men were portrayed as   
   >> *men*, with all of our complexities, and not as cartoon characters   
   >> (like some of the other characters were portrayed).   
   >   
   >But I would still contend that Faramir moving towards taking the ring   
   >to Minas Tirith is too big a discrepancy from the books. But that   
   >wisdom was ultimately revealed when he let them on their way, so the   
   >end result (as far as the character goes) was pretty much the same,   
   >only the road to go there were drastically different.   
      
   That bothered me as well.   I think it was intended to serve the   
   purpose of giving people who had not read the book a reason to believe   
   that Sauron thought the ring was going to Minas Tirith.   
      
   >> Incidentally, Sean Bean gets my vote for the finest performance in   
   >> any of the three movies, and the only reason I'm struggling through   
   >> Game of Thrones now.  (On the second episode and still not liking   
   >> it.)   
   >   
   >He's in GOT? Ok. I generally dislike Sean Bean in any role (since   
   >well, he pretty much always plays the shrouded villain kind of   
   >characters - it's the beard!), and while he did a far better job in   
   >LotR than usually, I still think there could have been a better   
   >performer for the role.   
      
   I confess I have not seen him in very many things.  He is one of very   
   few decent characters amongst a huge bunch of nasty people in GOT (one   
   of the reasons I'm getting tired of it -- most of the cast could die   
   horribly and you wouldn't care) and I do not consider his Boromir a   
   villain.  Far from it.   
      
      
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