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by Moggy » Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:59 am

I think people get confused with what Tolkien meant. When he said he disliked allegory, he was referring to people saying that LoTR was an allegorical take on World War 2 (“so Sauron is Hitler and Saruman is Mussolini….”). I don’t think he ever claimed that World War 1 had no influence on his works – just that it wasn’t an allegory.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Denster » Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:48 am

People getting confused and moggy putting them right.
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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Moggy » Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:29 pm

Denster wrote:People getting confused and moggy putting them right.
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My inner Tolkien geek was raging. :x

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Denster » Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:52 pm

As it should be.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Jenuall » Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:00 pm

Nobody doubts that Tolkien would have drawn upon his own wartime experiences, as the man himself says:

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience


But that trailer looks to be trying draw much more direct connections between the two.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Moggy » Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:08 pm

Jenuall wrote:But that trailer looks to be trying draw much more direct connections between the two.


Yeah I imagine the producers looked at Tolkien’s life and thought “Hmm shall we go for scenes of war, death and horror, or shall we have the professor sat quietly writing Father Christmas letters to his children?”

I’d imagine the producers made a very tough choice. ;)

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by Rex Kramer » Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:14 pm

Moggy wrote:
Jenuall wrote:But that trailer looks to be trying draw much more direct connections between the two.


Yeah I imagine the producers looked at Tolkien’s life and thought “Hmm shall we go for scenes of war, death and horror, or shall we have the professor sat quietly writing Father Christmas letters to his children?”

I’d imagine the producers made a very tough choice. ;)

Therefore I'll refer the honourable gentleman to my original point.

I've read the foreword to my copy of Lord of the Rings quite a few times and at no point have I ever thought 'he'd make an interesting biopic'.


Is there really a story to tell here that wouldn't require an extremely large helping of made up padding? To me it looks like more padding/artistic licence than the Hobbit trilogy.

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by Jenuall » Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:15 pm

Moggy wrote:
Jenuall wrote:But that trailer looks to be trying draw much more direct connections between the two.


Yeah I imagine the producers looked at Tolkien’s life and thought “Hmm shall we go for scenes of war, death and horror, or shall we have the professor sat quietly writing Father Christmas letters to his children?”

I’d imagine the producers made a very tough choice. ;)

Bloody producers, always chasing the "exciting" and "interesting" storyline! :P

Wasn't he invalided back home for the majority of the war anyway?

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Moggy » Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:20 pm

Jenuall wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Jenuall wrote:But that trailer looks to be trying draw much more direct connections between the two.


Yeah I imagine the producers looked at Tolkien’s life and thought “Hmm shall we go for scenes of war, death and horror, or shall we have the professor sat quietly writing Father Christmas letters to his children?”

I’d imagine the producers made a very tough choice. ;)

Bloody producers, always chasing the "exciting" and "interesting" storyline! :P

Wasn't he invalided back home for the majority of the war anyway?


He was at the Battle of the Somme. Then he caught a disease and was invalided and sent home.

Which was lucky, pretty much all of his childhood friends were killed in that war.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Moggy » Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:22 pm

Rex Kramer wrote:Is there really a story to tell here that wouldn't require an extremely large helping of made up padding? To me it looks like more padding/artistic licence than the Hobbit trilogy.


It depends what story they want to tell. If they want to tell the story properly then it probably will not be entertaining to the masses. If they want to ramp up the WW1 angle then they can probably get a few more bums on seats.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Denster » Wed Feb 13, 2019 3:13 pm

I don't really think it needed to be made. I'll obviously watch it if course but I've never thought it was something that needed to be put on film

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:21 pm

Seems like the sort of thing that the BBC would make a nice 90 minute docu-drama out of, like that Doctor Who thing they did a few years back.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Alvin Flummux » Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:54 am

Yesterday sounds like the diametric opposite of http://thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Moggy » Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:39 pm

The new Bond movie is going to be called....Shatterhand

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Peter Crisp » Fri Feb 22, 2019 7:29 pm

So it's an entire film about him getting treatment for a broken finger designed specifically to annoy US conservatives as it shows him getting free treatment on the NHS.
Thrilling.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by That's not a growth » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:43 pm

I'm looking forward to the posters having the 'a' changed by youths.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Pedz » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:51 pm

Shatterhind?

Odd name, TBH.

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Jenuall » Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:52 pm

Ugh, that means we're going to get more of Christoph Waltz's massively disappointing Blofeld doesn't it? :fp:

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PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Preezy » Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:29 am

Shatterhaaaand (wawa waaaa), he's the man, the man with the shattered hand, a spider's touch I mean haaaaaand, shatterhaaaaaaand


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