Which Character was better portrayed in the movies?
Ok, i am pretty sure none has done this, although i am not a regular poster here in twcenter so i can´t be sure. regardless, i was curious to know what you people felt about how the characters of LOTR where portrayed in the movies (meening, not only the acting, but also the dialog and everything concerning him, such as magnifficense, gouffyness, epicness, or the capacity to provoque simpathy from the audience).
So, which LOTR character was better portrayed in the movies?
Please note that i am not necesarilly aking "which charachter from the movie was closer to the original from the books?". But of course, that doesn´t mean that you can´t use that as your own premise. I personally think that, when doing an adaptation from any realm of arts to the big screen, it is imperative that some thing must be twitched to make the story work in the movie, but trying at the same time to capture the essense, the substance of the source. And for me, it is the same thing with the charachters, as long as they remain recognisible to the reader, a movie should try to add as much to him/her as it can. But if you see/feel films other way, like it should always be 100% true to the books, that´s ok. Please use your own standars to judge this and answer acording to them. Oh, and don´t forget to speak your mind and explain your choice.
As a final statement, please note that i put in here only those charachters that i think are either mostly accepted by the comunity, or that stand on a grey spot, disputed beetwen those who liked them and those who think that are raping Tolkien in his grave. So you wont be seeing some charachters that are generallie hated by Tolkien´s fanbase, like Gimli, or that play very small parts in the movies, like Eomer and other people from Rohan. Please let me know if you want them in.
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Originally Posted by Death's Deputy
is really happening, they eagerly hit the road with a smile on ther faces, and figth mane-a-mano with unsaybel dangers never quivering, not even a bit. Frodo even has the BALLS to look the Nazguls face to face, take out his dagger, and threathen them, all that with a sever wound in his shoulder. C´mon, that´s completly 100% bullcrap rigth there. I never belived that, not for one bit, that this nice, peacefull, joyfull litle person, would act all allmigthy like that when faced with this hellish creatures, that were even capables of scare entire armies to the bone. Sure, he just outran them (in the books) and entered the realm of the elves, so he was pretty safe, but that doesn´t mean that he has to go all badass on their asses. who is he, the lost ancestor of Chuck Norris?. And they are still just a few feets away. It doesn´t matter the logic of knowing that oyu are safe now, he should be crapping his pants and trembling in fear for the shock fo allmost diying a few seconds ago, not challenge them with a "come and get some!" phrase. I know the intention in that "scene" is to show that he is very brave, but honestly i think that that is allready pretty well stablished when he accepted to go in this journey for the first time, or when he took the ring in the middle of the council of Erlrond. I mean, c´mon guys, a scene like the described before is something i expect to here from Aragorn, or Boromir, strong anf fearless liders that would do anything it take to defeat evil, not from this poor litle country-side fella who is charged with this incredibly big responsability out of the blue and that hasn´t got an idea of how the outside world is or works. All that scene does is to stablish the character of Frodo as some kind of "slept hero" that was waiting for adventure to come knocking at his door. I know that i am speaking a litle too much about this one part, but is the perfetc example to show the personality of the Frodo from the books. Now, the Frodo from the movies is a litle more like the original Frodo should have been IMO. He is vulnerable, weak, and a bit of a sissy. He doesn´t want this task, but it is be cause he understand the importance in it that he keeps going. And with every step it seems like he is about to crash and give up, but somehow keeps moving foward. I remember the first time i saw the movies i though "boy, i could beat the crap out of him"... and i was 12. He proves is that even the smallest, weakest person can make a difference. But of course, that doesn´t come out all that well in the books, since like we have allready stablished, he is not normal. He is a freaking HERO, like everyone else in the fellowship. He comes with all the virtues and potential, but in a smaller package. And that when i think J.R.R dropped the ball. If he had been a litle more like the Frodo in the movies, the message would have been so much strong. This poor, weak farmer going alones (well, almost) against the hole forces of evil, where no other man dears to go, even against his own wishies, just for the sake of humanity. And while he is at it, all the Kings, demigods and inmortals of the world are praying for his success, be cause if he fails, they are all pretty much 
