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Is the film "Lord Of The Rings" racist?

Is the film "Lord Of The Rings" racist?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • No

    Votes: 51 81.0%

  • It's prophetic

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • Idk

    Votes: 7 11.1%
  • Total voters
    63
Aunt Spiker said:
Well I've only read a few books that were turned into a show or movie - and I don't recall any race-swapping.

What has happened are character-swapping. Where the story or events from one character are given to another when it's processed into a script.

I prefer when they leave things the heck alone. But - Hobbits, Orcs, Dunedains, Elves, Maiar, and Dwarves don't exist in real life :)
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Or they change a character so much nothing about him or her resembles the character in the book or they create characters out of thin air that for some reason are critical to the story even if they didn't exist in the book.
 
Quag said:
I voted yes because all the orcs in it are protrayed as being evil! I mean come on where are the good orcs? They never once show an orc child, just cute human or halfling children. It is a total shame!
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There were lots of good Orcs- they were piled like cord-wood against the walls at Helms Deep.
 
Grand Mal - I haven't read the Hobbit yet. Every time I've tried I just can't get into it for some reason. Maybe someday.

Henrin said:
Or they change a character so much nothing about him or her resembles the character in the book or they create characters out of thin air that for some reason are critical to the story even if they didn't exist in the book.
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Yep - that too.
 
Grand Mal said:
I hear that a new character was created for "The Hobbit" because it didn't seem right that there were no female characters in such a long story.
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Hey, Peter Jackson has screwed over the books so badly that I wouldn't be surprised.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Grand Mal - I haven't read the Hobbit yet. Every time I've tried I just can't get into it for some reason. Maybe someday.



Yep - that too.
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The Hobbit is pretty thin gruel compared to The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien wrote the former as a story for children, and when they asked for more Middle Earth as they got older he settled on the Ring as the device to connect the stories.:peace
 
Canell said:
So, people, what do you think? :)
What's your feeling about that? :peace
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Nope. This is a subject that has been debated for decades. It seems to pop up right before each new movie hits theaters too.
 
ChrisL said:
You seemed to be saying it ruined the movie.

Edit: Sorry, I should say WOULD ruin the movie. :)
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If a woman was one of the main characters it would. That doesn't much matter after he added a character out of nowhere in the first movie.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Grand Mal - I haven't read the Hobbit yet. Every time I've tried I just can't get into it for some reason. Maybe someday.
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Read it to a child- bed-time stories. That's how to get through it as an adult.
 
Henrin said:
If a woman was one of the main characters it would. That doesn't much matter after he added a character out of nowhere in the first movie.
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So then it isn't racist, it's sexist! :lol:
 
It's homophobic because it never discusses or indulges in the sexual tension between Sam and Frodo.
 
ChrisL said:
So then it isn't racist, it's sexist! :lol:
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The book doesn't have any female characters at all. When you see that female redheaded elf in the next Hobbit movie you can be assured that Jackson made her up.
 
ChrisL said:
You seemed to be saying it ruined the movie.

Edit: Sorry, I should say WOULD ruin the movie. :)
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What I said was that he screwed over the books, meaning that the movies are no where near as good. Changing who said what ruined the movies. Making Gimli a comic distraction in the movie ruined the movies. Taking out entire chapters ruined the movies. Making the battle of Helm's Deep 1/3 of the movie when it is 1/30 of the book ruined the movies. so yes... Adding a female character would ruin the movie.
 
Henrin said:
The book doesn't have any female characters at all. When you see that female redheaded elf in the next Hobbit movie you can be assured that Jackson made her up.
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Who are Arwen and the Lady of Rohan then?
 
Bodhisattva said:
What I said was that he screwed over the books, meaning that the movies are no where near as good. Changing who said what ruined the movies. Making Gimli a comic distraction in the movie ruined the movies. Taking out entire chapters ruined the movies. Making the battle of Helm's Deep 1/3 of the movie when it is 1/30 of the book ruined the movies. so yes... Adding a female character would ruin the movie.
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You take me too seriously. I'm just having some fun. I really don't care that much about Lord of the Rings. :mrgreen:
 
Henrin said:
The book doesn't have any female characters at all. When you see that female redheaded elf in the next Hobbit movie you can be assured that Jackson made her up.
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Maybe you shouldn't see the movie then.
 
ChrisL said:
You take me too seriously. I'm just having some fun. I really don't care that much about Lord of the Rings. :mrgreen:
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I take this **** very seriously... J/K ;)

I love the books and the movies kinda sucked... that 's all. All good.
 
Bodhisattva said:
What I said was that he screwed over the books, meaning that the movies are no where near as good. Changing who said what ruined the movies. Making Gimli a comic distraction in the movie ruined the movies. Taking out entire chapters ruined the movies. Making the battle of Helm's Deep 1/3 of the movie when it is 1/30 of the book ruined the movies. so yes... Adding a female character would ruin the movie.
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I have to disagree. Any time a novel becomes a movie there has to be compression. I thought they did reasonably well. A film is visual and Helm's Deep is visual. That's to be expected. In a film all those long discussions don't work. It's the old saying: "Don't tell me. Show me.":peace
 
Bodhisattva said:
I take this **** very seriously... J/K ;)

I love the books and the movies kinda sucked... that 's all. All good.
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I read one or two because I had to for school, but I barely remember them. I saw the first movie and that's it.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Well I've only read a few books that were turned into a show or movie - and I don't recall any race-swapping.

What has happened are character-swapping. Where the story or events from one character are given to another when it's processed into a script.

I prefer when they leave things the heck alone. But - Hobbits, Orcs, Dunedains, Elves, Maiar, and Dwarves don't exist in real life :)
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Oh, I don't know... I once worked for an Orc. ;)
 
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