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Titolo: un altro articolo ridicolo...

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Viggo Mortensen is all bent out of shape, and who can blame him?
The hunky half-Danish actor, who plays Aragorn, son of Arathorn, in The Lord
of the Rings: The Two Towers, is agitated because the wildly popular
dungeons-and-dragons movie that's making him a star is being used by pundits
and agitators to further their own political agendas.
Last month, Mortensen went on Charlie Rose wearing a homemade "No Blood For
Oil" T-shirt, ticked off because people keep telling him that The Two
Towers, which took in more than $200 million in its first 10 days of
release, makes a case for a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
"I don't think that The Two Towers or Tolkien's writing or our work has
anything to do with the United States' foreign ventures at this time," he
told the PBS talk-show host with the uncombed hair. Fellow actor Elijah
Wood, who plays ring-bearer Frodo Baggins, chimed in: "People say it's a
pro-war movie, which I also have a problem with."
Oxford don J.R.R. Tolkien always denied that his Lord of the Rings trilogy,
which was published nearly 50 years ago, was loaded with allegory or topical
symbolism. And unless Tolkien was Nostradamus, he couldn't have intended
evil wizard Saruman (who sends a genetically engineered army of Uruk-Hai to
crush the good guys at Helm's Deep) to be a stand-in for evildoer Saddam
Hussein (who's alleged to be a collector of chemical weapons of mass
destruction).
What's more, plenty of Lord of the Rings lovers will tell you that Tolkien's
books are actually shot through with antiwar and environmental themes.
Hairy-footed hobbits, after all, are peaceful creatures, and Mr. Frodo's
trek to the fiery pits of Mordor to destroy the all-powerful ring has been
interpreted as really being about nuclear disarmament. And the ents, those
molasses-mouthed talking trees, get geared up to take on Saruman when they
learn that the white-haired wizard has clear-cut large swaths of Fangorn
Forest.(Wouldn't that be environmental protection?)
But while that's all well and good, it's also immaterial. Nowadays, a movie
or record or book exists and is interpreted in the historical moment when it
is unleashed on the world. So, even though the Lord of the Rings books were
published in the mid-'50s, we're experiencing The Two Towers in this
cultural nanosecond. And it is the audience, rather than Tolkien or even
director Peter Jackson, that decides just what the fantastic saga means.
And whenever a product gets as wildly popular as The Two Towers, any nuances
the artist might have intended are likely to be missed.
Consider this: Bruce Springsteen may have written "Born in the U.S.A." as a
critique of the treatment of Vietnam veterans, but Ronald Reagan
appropriated it, and the song was widely seen as a jingoistic anthem.
Randy Newman may have meant "Short People" to point out the stupidity of
discrimination, but people thought the songwriter hated short people
himself.
And the Harry Potter books may seem like charmingly magical coming-of-age
stories, but there are those who believe they are diabolical tales of devil
worship.
So it goes.
With impending war with Iraq the lead story around the world, it's
inevitable that The Two Towers would be seen as applicable to today's
geopolitical situation. Perhaps after The Return of the King comes out next
Christmas, the "War is hell" vision of Tolkien, who fought in the trenches
in World War I, will reestablish itself.
Never mind that The Two Towers is a movie about a king who needs to get over
his reluctance to fight and about countries that must band together to stop
the relentless forces of absolute evil (which just happen to be subhuman,
and thus easier to kill with a clear conscience).
"There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for," says hobbit
Samwise Gamgee.
It doesn't matter what Tolkien meant or what Viggo Mortensen thinks. In the
here and now, The Two Towers is a powerful piece of war propaganda.
Go deo
--
Elena #156 deI FeSTosi
 "Silently she walks..."

 Viggo Mortensen is all bent out of shape, and who can blame him?
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Non ho capito bene se l'articolo e un po' serio o un po' ironico e se
l'autrice in effetti *sta dando* un giudizio oppure no.
Ad onta dei commentatori italiani, però, tra tutte le idee strampalate degli
americani che l'autrice riporta, faccio notare che non c'è n'è *una* che si
sogni nemmeno di sguincio di associare Tolkien al nazi-fascismo.
Dirò: secondo me ormai i tempi sono maturi per esigere un'ordalia, un bagno
di sangue di certi commentatori anni settanta, eh eh eh ^_^
Ciao.
Ered Luin

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news:dHIR9.57215$Q%4.18...@news1.tin.it...
: Aste?? Harrod's?
no, gothauctions e gothicauctions! (punto com!)
: Figo!
: Ma cosa fai nella vita??  Devono essere cose molto intriganti :-)
:
la musicista....beh, studentessa flautista...ex pianista....cantante....ora
pure ghirondista quando serve...
: Non ho capito bene se l'articolo e un po' serio o un po' ironico e se
: l'autrice in effetti *sta dando* un giudizio oppure no.
magari è tutto ironico....ma ne dubito, veramente
: Ad onta dei commentatori italiani, però, tra tutte le idee strampalate
degli
: americani che l'autrice riporta, faccio notare che non c'è n'è *una* che
si
: sogni nemmeno di sguincio di associare Tolkien al nazi-fascismo.
noi invece ci facciamo sempre riconoscere!! :-DDDD
:
:
: Dirò: secondo me ormai i tempi sono maturi per esigere un'ordalia, un
bagno
: di sangue di certi commentatori anni settanta, eh eh eh ^_^
:
evvai!!!!!!! :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))) facciamoli fuori!!!!!!!!!!!!
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