Glad you liked the post! Well, they certainly did cut back on his scenes in the movies, even in the Director's Cut bits. I guess they might have felt it would slow down the action to have Faramir the intellectual who is only doing this because it has to be done and would rather be home studying his history books. Perhaps you are referring to his temptation over the Ring instead of saying he wouldn't use it if he found it lying on the road and it was the only way to save Gondor? It has been a while since I saw it. But I think David Wenham did a nice job and they did do quite well with the issues between him and his dreadful father.