Originally posted by: Vigo
you sometimes can not get what you want during shooting. Did it make the movie any worse? No. The scene worked perfectly in the original version. Sometimes, it is the limitations that drive people to excellency. Many real artists will confirm this.

Ergo, the end of King Kong, not to mention the end of Casablanca. Not that these were accidents happening on shooting day, but they were written and inserted into the films at the last moment, with production well underway.

Not only will real artists confirm that accidental or even unwanted things often work out artistically best, great artists will know this to be the case and not frantically resist or stupidly second-guess.

Edited to add:

Oh, and huzzah for everything Vigo also wrote in his last post, vis-a-vis the feel of certain movie periods, and how every element is effected and constrained by and expressive of that historical period.

As for Tolkien, yes it was a dickwad move of his to change The Hobbit to fit with the later-written The Lord of the Rings. He get no pass from me. I don't believe he ever went back and burned his original manuscript, but I don't really know.

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