[ SECRET POST #2527 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2527 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get this complaint. PJ was understandably fettered by havign to use human actors, for Pete's sake...I don't think it's POSSIBLE to make film elves as 'sublime' as our imaginations can create from the book. It's like bitching that Aslan was just a talking lion in the Narnia movies--well of course he was, they did the best they could with the tools that were available to them, divine talking lion actors being thin on the ground.

[(Anonymous)]

Dolan's answer to the question of whether anyone could have pulled off the elves is "probably no one - maybe Sergei Eisenstein." So I think he gets that it's difficult, but his point would be that if you can't pull an adaptation of LotR off, why are you adapting it in the first place?

For me... well, I agree that the problem is inherently difficult, but the fact remains that the elves in the films are not sublime, that in fact they're kind of tawdry - their dwellings, their costumes, they themselves have always seemed that way to me. And if that kind of sublimity is difficult to attain, I still think that Jackson could have done a lot better - I think he fundamentally just misses the point, the central aspect of elves, what they are and what makes them function. And if the portrayal of the elves was doomed to be a failure, that doesn't mean his attempt was any good. Anyone would have failed, but Jackson doesn't even start in the right place.

For me, anyway!