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You're right, but I offer a counterpoint, and not just the 'film is trying to condense everything and foreshadow wherever it is possible.' They actually did that part fairly well.
Boromir's whole involvement with the ring is shown as conflicted from the start. That he is shown so suspiciously throughout the movie makes his martyrdom so much more meaningful.
The scene that does him dirty is the one with Aragorn where he treats the weapon used by Isildur with disrespect.
(They also cast Sean Bean so even if you were blind to the series, you knew what was gonna happen to him.)
You can make that argument (though I personally don't really agree with it), but my point is that his character and the intent of his arc is very different from the novel.
Yeah, I get that. I see it as a necessary casualty of novel>movie narrative.
It's really the Narsil scene to me that diverges his arc and does him dirty.
I have a lot of issues with the movies in general, I think they miss the heart of a lot of the characters in favour of cliches and fitting better into mainstream movie tropes.