To those looking for DB's LOTR's rant.....
JDG
>Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:50:10 -0600 (CST)
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>From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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>> Jo Anne wrote:
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>> > >> He got this list
>> > >> *totally* stirred up (well, he got *me* totally stirred up, anyway)
over a
>> > >> year ago with some Tolkien comments.
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>> > >Why?
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>> > Jeez, you're asking me to quote His Brinness? There are sharper minds
than
>> > mine on this list who can remember, or those with enough time to look
it up
>> > in the archives, but I will try.
>> >
>> If anyone can send me His message, or a pointer to it, I would
>> be very thankful.
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>For the edification of everyone who missed it (and it was in 1996, not
>LAST year, so that's probably a fair bunch here!), I give you the
>following with the non-LOTR stuff deleted.
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> Julia
> hoarder of e-mails
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>>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 16 16:46:11 1998
>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 21:30:49 -0800
>From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: BRIN-L digest 154
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>David B. Wheeler lists great SF movies taken from a book e.g. _Bladerunner_
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>--> True, Scott was faithful to Dickian tone. PKD saw rushes before he
>died, and was pleased. Alas, Harry Harrison insists on being angry over
>Soylent Green, because of the cannibalism bit, even though he admits the
>movie captured the tone, the warning, the mood, and situation perfectly.
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>Alas, Dave also says -- "3) Ralph Bakshi's animated version of the first
>half of the "Lord of the Rings" is a masterpiece that strongly evinces
>Tolkein's storytelling.
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>--> Yikes! Please not to mention that name! Satan incarnate could not
>make movies more immoral than that wretched man. His "Wizards" is
>advertisement for evil in every scene. A ghastly horror, in which the
>viewer is persuaded to root for vile racist pixie oppressors who have kept
>poor cowardly mutants in a lightless ghetto for thousands of years.
>Viewers then cheer the mutants' brutal genocide, and laugh joyfully as one
>of the most horrible characters I've ever seen cheats his way to victory.
>It is a textbook lesson in the distilled art of propaganda.
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>True, rb's Lord of The Rings is pretty accurate, but that's because
>Tolkien's original book is also evil! Oh, I loved it as a kid, til much
>later I realized it was an endless screed demanding romantic fealty to an
>established ruling class. Someday I'd love to tell the story of the war
>from Sauron's point of view, without the red glowing eyes that are clearly
>propaganda by the victors. Picture the immortal rebel who never gives up,
>always coming back to fight against those nasty elitist elves and their
>human lickspittle Numenorean invader-racist puppets! (Clue: which army had
>EVERY race in it? Sauron's did! Volunteers rallied to his banner from
>everywhere. Ever wonder why?)
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