Annael
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Jul 13 2011, 2:47pm
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the terms "murdering a fictional character" do sound like something a lawyer would say to rile up the jury. When the LOTR movies came out, the equivalent phrase was "raping the book." I argued then and I argue now that the book remains intact, as do the characters. You can still pick it up and read it and it's all there like it was before. All Peter Jackson has done in both cases is present us with an interpretation of both. Just as all the hundreds of "Tolkien artists" have done with their drawings. You may not like his interpretation, and that is fine. The only interpretation any of us is ever going to love completely is our own, and alas, making a movie (or in my case, even just drawing what I see) is out of the question. So we either have to watch PJ's movie and be a bit frustrated when he veers away from what we think he "should" have done, or choose not to see it at all.
I hope you don't mean that someone else's ideas have the power to destroy your own.
The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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(This post was edited by Annael on Jul 13 2011, 2:48pm)
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