Amazon Middle Earth series
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May be of interest plus there is a follow-up article with some ‘spoilers’, including a hint that WOKE rears its inevitable head
About the trailer:
I like the visuals, they seem spectacular, or at least as spectacular as they might be with the lots of money that they had invested. I would have preferred a bit more respect to what is written and exists than that empty astronomical amount of money… Knowing that Tom Shippey was “fired” from the project some months ago, and watching the trailer just breaked my heart a little bit.It seems NOT to be what Tolkien high fantasy deserves, and it does not seem to have the same amount of respect and love for the details than the original trilogy of the rings had. At the moment almost everything on the trailer is invented, except for the names of Galadriel and Elrond, and a few other things remotely related to Tolkien stories. The rest is just fantasy.
To sum up, I like it and hate it at the same time and what I really feel is confusion about this project. I might like the fantasy aspect of it, but everything else I fear a lot.
Gildor Inglorion a écrit:
fact is, in addition to this trailer, I learned Saul Zaentz has put up for auction sale the whole Tolkien licence !!….
Oh my god, I have even more fears now…. just hoping it won’t be Disney. I mean, I like Disney and Pixar, but not what they have done to other franchises… coughstar coghwars cough… xD
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Mae govannen mellon nín.Barliman a écrit:
Disney toyed with filming LOTR back in the day, didn’t they?
I think that too… that was around the Bakshi film era..
Barliman a écrit:
One day I must get someone to explain to me what “woke” means in trendy hip vernacular. Waking is something I do every morning, but I still don’t understand it.
I do not know either… lost in translation sorry xD
ddaines a écrit:
There is a You Tube contributor – Nerd of the Rings who has done an initial reaction video to the trailer (he’s done quite a lot of stuff on different Tolkien subjects and is worth a watch) and raised some observations.
Yes indeed! I just discovered him this week. If someone around needs a “Spanish version” that could be kai47’s youtube channel, they both do similar stuff around Tolkien lore.
Gildor Inglorion a écrit:
at the same time they would be the best placed to produce any kind of derived products, not only movies… but also book editions, byproducts, tv series, and lots of stuff … but at the risk of denaturing the work…
I liked back in time when Amazon sold books, I am not happy now, giving such enourmous power and wealth to just one single enterprise so I try to interact minimally with them.
Gildor Inglorion a écrit:
can you imagine future cross overs with Darth Vader meeting Iron Man meeting Sauron ? or Legolas against Hawkeye against Chewbaca or Merida ?
Shivers….
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ddaines a écrit:
Disney is ‘Woke’ to the core, hands off!.
One day I must get someone to explain to me what “woke” means in trendy hip vernacular. Waking is something I do every morning, but I still don’t understand it.
The term ‘woke’: the 2020 definition Definition in oxford dictionary says ‘Alert to injustice in society, especially racism.’ I think it is the shortened tern for ‘Awoken’.
However, it is a word/phrase also used for describing cr*p like ‘cancel-culture’ etc. I think Disney has put out ‘warnings’ on their old movies that scenes in Bambi etc. are likely to offend some of society’s ‘sensitive souls (I can’t recall exact examples). Also the need to cast actors into roles that are specifically inaccurate, e.g. the recent Anne Boleyn having a Black actress playing the title-role, David Copperfield being played by a chap with the surname Patel are bundled under the ‘Woke’ umbrella. My own ‘uvver-half’ is Sikh and she thinks it ridiculous and unnecessary.
It, along with other terms such as ‘snowflakes’, is used to describe ‘bleeding-heart’ liberal types who feel the need to apologise on behalf of those who they perceive to be offended, regardless of whether they are offended or not.
Anyhow, as views expressed can be mis-interpreted I will leave it at that
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