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News Briefs 21-11-2006

Many Tales of the Inexpressible in today’s news…

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day:

Very brightly coloured, very irridescent…deep sheens and very highly reflective surfaces. Everything is machine-like and polished, and throbbing with energy – but that is not what immediately arrests my attention. What arrests my attention, is the fact that this space is…inhabited.

Terence McKenna (discussing DMT)

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  1. Lord of the Rings news
    There, but not back again, for Lord of the Rings director.

    What?! Hollywood thinks it doesn’t need Peter Jackson’s services for The Hobbit?

    Talk about taking their fan base for granted – this is about as cheeky – and stupid – as it gets.

    1. Kat
      I am torn in a number of directions.

      If I had never read the books I would have lauded the movies, especially the extended and special extended versions, as a work of genius. If I had read the books and saw the extended version of the movies first I would at least have given Jackson credit for making a token effort towards honoring the books. But, as it is, I know the books quite well and I see the theatrical release versions of the movies as a complete affront to whatever vision Tolkien had.

      In my opinion, words such as “classic” and “epic” are getting somewhat strained when applied to LOTR; they seem to be used mostly by people who do not know the classics and who do not have the slightest idea of what the sagas were from which Tolkien so freely “borrowed.”

      Jackson clearly knows how to turn Tolkien into a commercially successful movie; does that of itself say anything good about what he did to the story or is it just a negative comment on the taste of the audience? For my part I would welcome someone other than PJ making The Hobbit…at least there would be some small chance that the story wouldn’t be completely pissed on. How can anyone who knows the books feel otherwise? Jackson is so intellectually bankrupt that in a some cases he takes one character’s words from the book and puts them into another character’s mouth in the films and in this as in all other cases the changes he makes might make a better film but certainly don’t help the story…if the idea was to pay any attention to the story as the author saw it.

      I don’t know…maybe some fans of LOTR are so pathetically grateful to see any version of their favorite story on the silver screen that they forgive some, or all, lapses. Maybe they think that PJ et al are greater talents than JRR was, whatever credit might be given his writing. At least there’s some good chance that we won’t see that creep Mortensen again…New Zealand’s pretty, isn’t it? If you like mountains, I mean.

      cheers

      Good News: There’s a guiding force at work in the Universe. Bad News: It’s Irony.

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