Re: Muckraker Wars ?

From: KYER, JEFFREY <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:47:02 -0500

OT - The director's cut should be more interesting. Larry Dixon, who was on shot, metioned that only about 1/2 of the SCENES shot made it into the film (Not -TAKES- but SCENES...!)

Andrew Barton wrote:
>
> > You mean that "Scratch Armpit" ; "Spot Vermin in Cabbage Patch" ;
> "Remove Filth from Footwear" ; "Spread Ugly Gossip" ;
> "Unnatural Practices in the Barnyard" ; "Hide Tubers" ;
> "Scratch Groin" ; "Imperial Subsidies Knowledge" ;
> "Spread Foot & Hoof" ; "Speak Incomprehensible Dialect" ;
> "Ge'off Moy Laaaaand" ; "Ranged Combat (Shoot Rambler)" ;
> "Follower (Vicious Hound 5W)" ; "Smell of Fertilizer"
> _aren't_ good "farmer campaign" abilities, as I was thinking ?
>
> Farmer Maggot in chapter 4 of 'Lord of the Rings' uses at least two
> of
> these abilities to see off a Black Rider - and if his Relationship to
> Frodo
> had been lower, the book might never have got to chapter 5. A farmer
> NPC
> may well belong in a heroic campaign and a past episode of mushroom
> stealing can have epic consequences.
>
> The film leaves out nearly all these incidental characters. You can
> see
> why it has to, but it means the story loses a lot of its power.
>
> Andrew
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