----- Original Message ---- From: "heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk" <heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Fri, November 20, 2009 5:04:57 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] More on why movies suck
Anyone can see that Lord of the Rings is a Heideggero-Facistic metaphor, the They of the Orcs, the lost authenticity of the Shire, the being-towards-death of the heroic rush to battle...
Or maybe it is a gay sub-text, all those manly knight-types heartily looking after the laddish hobbits, with Sir Ian McKellan desperate to finger Frodo's ring... Note that the evil eye of Sauron is a great vagina dentata in the film version
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