Interracial bestiality

"a giant black jungle monkey put in chains, brought to america, and killed for lovin' a white woman. this is better than roots!" i laughed way out loud. he could have ended this series there.

LotR is tough. i read it for the first time after 6th grade -- we're talking 1969 or so; i've read it over 30 times. i love the books, but now that i'm older and awake, i see the problems. it's sexist, it's racist and the dialogue ain't the best. otoh, Tolkien was born in South Africa 2 centuries ago, and he was one of the lucky few to survive the trenches of WW1. i'm just not going to hold the book up to modern standards of ethics; it may lack many women and there is a certain inclination to make dark southerners wicked, but the trilogy is so much bigger than that.

sadly, Peter Jackson never understood that. i don't think he understood the first thing about the books. he totally bastardized the story. yes, changes were necessary to make it fit on film, but jeeeeezus. to make Faramir try to betry Frodo -- that's just stupid and so wrong. on and on, he's got people behaving exactly the opposite of how they did in the book. he has people falling off cliffs for no reason at all, Frodo screams at Sam and sends him away as if they were having a spat on a made for tv movie!! it was truly a horrible horrible trilogy. no surprise it won an oscar, just like Braveheart (rehearsing how he was going to torture Jesus when he got the chance) was picked as "the" Scotland movie over Rob Roy, which is a fabulous movie.

i won't be able to comment on KK cuz i ain't gonna see it. Jackson is a shit movie maker. he took the book i grew up loving on and pissed all over it. he's an orc in a fat hairy Kiwi disguise. the Boondocks told me more than enough; i'm glad i started reading it. i hear about "brave" writers and wonder what the hell people mean. you write what you gotta write; it's not brave, it's mandatory. but Aaron is brave, cuz he has to take the shit. i hope he catches the kudos as well, cuz he deserves them.

I've never read the books. This is one of those culture gaps. I read El Quijote and Cien Años the Soledad as a kid because that's what most Latin Americans read growing up. I may be suffering from early dementia but I can't think of anything like Lord Of the Rings or Narnia coming out of Spain or Latin America.

So I came to these movies with no literary bias. I honestly think this is the best fantasy movies done ever. Way better than Star Wars because Peter Jackson, as opposed to George Lucas, cares more about his actors and their contribution to the movies than Lucas.

As a former actress wannabe, I can see how he uses to camera to pick on the details of the characters to make the story fuller. To go from mere "make it look like reality" so prevalent in movies to a full blown visual language of verosimilitude. I guess this is what ticks off hard-core fans of the books because he is visually re-writing the books --and successfully. Meaning, that his reality is so imposing that it erases whatever people had built in their minds through their readings of the books.

So that's why I am conflicted with PJ because I do like what he does with his movies; but my being NOT of the melanin-challenged variety, I can't help but notice the race issues in his movies.

And that's why I love Aaron McGruder. He's da man.