Sunday, November 23, 2003
RING TIME
MSNBC has a nice, long article about Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, the last installment of which will be in theaters soon (news for those who just stopped in from alternative universes). I can't wait. Never has a film so exceeded expectations, never has a studio had such courage to give Jackson the huge wad of cash he needed to do it right. Like most English-speaking homo sapiens of my generation, The Lord of the Rings was an essential part of my adolescence. And its message is as timely now as it was when it was first written: There are good people and bad people and sometimes the good people have to fight the bad people to keep the world from going to hell. There's no cultural relativism in TLotR: No one makes excuses for the orcs, because being nasty, violent monsters is "part of their culture."
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 10:54 AM
