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Originally Posted by imsounoriginal
Or they cut out the Tolkien stuff in favor of Boyens because they know that most moviegoers have no idea which is which and therefore just prefer the simplest version of the story on the screen. Most audiences have no idea what the story should be (whatever that means), so they're content with whatever Jackson, Boyens and co. cook up for them. For the LOTR TCs, I thought the balance they struck was perfect, but like I've said earlier, the DoS EE is probably the first and only where pretty much all the added material is substantial and not useless fluff.
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I'm not one of those people who automatically classifies all adaptive writing as "the wrong version", I can think of many examples from LotR where they improved the story, (though I think most of those are cribbed directly from the Bakshi adaptation). I'm not suggesting that a 100% Tolkien version would be best, I'm just saying that:
1.) They hold back Tolkien material for the EE, because the EE is mostly for Tolkien fans.
2.) They've made some pretty peculiar choices.
3.) Boyens is not a good writer. If they need to take adaptive liberties, I think they should get a better writer.
At any rate, there's no way they could move copies of a marked-up EE if all the added scenes were Boyens adaptation scenes, because her writing doesn't have a committed fan following like Tolkien does.
Sabe?