marary
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Mar 15 2015, 8:55pm
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I actually think the story beneath the studio influence and corny lines has plenty of merits, as I outlined in my essay of doom above.
Did the studio intend for Tauriel to also have feelings for Legolas? Thankfully, the script left it ambiguous, and I suspect Evangeline Lilly took that space and ran with her interpretation... she really has no hots whatsoever for the blond elf. A small saving grace.
Tauriel and Kili was too overwrought at the end. The corny lines ("why does it hurt so much?") put me off to it so much the first time I saw it. On a second glance, there's quite a bit of *good* in the pairing, hiding underneath contrived Hollywood pandering and bad lines.
Like so much else in these films, you have to look past a lot of bad to find things that are surprisingly good. Legolas on the falling rocks is terrible, but Ravenhill, on a whole, was epic, for example. Kili/Tauriel (for me) is a big example of this.
(This post was edited by marary on Mar 15 2015, 8:58pm)
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