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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#101: Mar 13th 2018 at 4:45:11 AM

The movie was complete shit because of one thing: the source material is completely shit upon.

It's symbolic that not only did they not understand the source material but there's a VERY specific SINGLE thing like George R.R. Martin asking, "Who is Jon Snow's mother?" That can tell you whether or not they understand the Dark Tower.

This is...

in any hypothetical adaptation, do you have Roland leave a child to die. The entire fucking saga depends on the understanding of a single factoid: "Roland is not a good person. He is an obsessed Anti-Hero who will kill, betray, and destroy anyone in order to get to the Dark Tower—thus creating Mordred among other horrible compromises.

If the answer is yes then you understand it. If you don't, you don't.

Re: Idris Elba as Roland

There are very few actors who can sell they are the toughest and meanest son of a bitch who ever lived.

Which, in simple terms, is Roland's entire character.

Idris is one of them.

edited 13th Mar '18 4:49:02 AM by CharlesPhipps

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#102: May 22nd 2018 at 2:59:21 AM

Never mind abandoning Jake to his death. How about killing an entire town (in self defence, but still), men, women, and children, without having an ounce of regret afterwards? This character has to be played as the most ruthless of antiheroes, so that his journey makes sense. When at the end of the saga, the Tower sends him back and provides him with the Horn of Gilead to indicate that maybe this time things will be different, that symbolizes that he has grown, that he is willing to take other humans into consideration on his quest. Taking that initial darkness away makes the eventual light that much less compelling.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#103: May 22nd 2018 at 4:33:20 AM

The entire story is an arc.

And basically it removes the arc.

Like having Bilbo be heroic in the Hobbit movies.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
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