the night watchman
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 Posted: 10.16.2003 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| beltmann wrote: | | My problem with LOTR is that there's a certain dehumanization at play; Jackson's fascination with mass slaughter--the adrenalized excitement of battle--reminds me a bit of the pawns that Lucas pushes around the screen. This is not to say I dislike Jackson's trilogy... I just think there is a rather naive, boyish sensibility at work in it. |
I haven't read Tolkien's books, but doesn't this sort of represent the sensibility of the era in which the story was written, i.e. that war is heroic; that there is a strict demarcation between good and evil, and the vanquishing of evil is a thrilling and noble endeavor? If it is, it doesn?t seem as though Jackson can be blamed for choosing to stay true to the spirit of the work, or at least trying to reproduce the world view found therein. It would be like someone making a movie version of the The Iliad and skimming over all the bloody and violent set pieces found in that narrative.
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