>>3844567Thank you for replying! Let's have a discussion on this. You say for Faramir that he is the same character but adapted differently. I would agree that it would be possible to have an adaption of a character with certain differences but is also the same character. But I would disagree with this claim by the fact that character can also still be different, even if ostensibly an adaption, if it differs substantially. Certain accidental qualities may be the same but unless the underlying core of the character, the "substance" (the 'what it is' of a character), may differ. The difference of character even despite appearances is an obvious principle, in my opinion. A basic example to base it off of, I think we can agree, at the very least, that the Rei in Shinji's alternate reality sequence in Episode 26 is a different character than the Rei we find in the main part of the show, as she is vastly different even from the very short amount of screentime we see.
At the heart of the matter, I think, is what is meant by the term "character", and what really makes it up. Here I don't think Faramir is an ill comparison, because although it is true that Jackson is not the same person as Tolkien, let us put aside the authors for a moment and focus on the characters themselves to better investigate the question of what character means. What, then, makes a "character" in the true sense of the word? The most obvious and superficial one, of course, is appearance and name. I do think this actually does have some part in character, as even if two characters possessed the same kind of interior life but had different identities and vastly different appearances, we would treat them as different characters. But we also see that this one can be fudged a bit, as the appearance need not be exact. (Part 1/2)
