The Lord of the Rings: ROTK

[chicken]

-- No shire battle at the end? Why not? Hobbits died, for pity's sake.

Queerish subtexty and texty bits in the books that were left out of the film, who knows why --

-- Sam says to Frodo "I love you." Why cut one little line just because it might sound gay? Come on.

-- Gimli loves Legolas so much that he boards the ship with him at the end. Tolkien used the word love, yes.

Sure, in both cases he probably didn't mean homoerotic love, but leaving these bits out of the film still makes Jackson look a bit homophobic. Esp. as he was the one who made "Heavenly Creatures" which I found to be homophobic.

But, redeemably, Merry and Pippin came off as totally in love in ROTK, which was very cute.

On the whole, however, a great film, worth the having-to-pee feeling after sitting in the theatre for four hours (counting the interminable coming attactions and product huckstering).

In fact, we liked it enough to want to go see it again next week.

Comments

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

Totally slashy hobbit action. Agreed.

Also annoyed about the bits left out, grrr.

You thought Heavenly Creatures was homophobic? Why exactly? I was in a relationship that was almost identical to that one (without the killing) and it always makes me feel better to know I wasn't alone in the world!

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

It wasn't homophobic except for the killing part ... I guess the killing part affirmed the killer queer stereotype, is all. The same stereotype that led people to be angry about Willow going on a rampage.

The lead actress, Melanie Lynskey, was interestingly in another lesbian film, But I'm A Cheerleader, a fun little romantic comedy.

[the-automatik.livejournal.com]

I see your point, but wasn't it a true story? I don't watch Buffy so I don't know about that Willow plot.

I wanted to see that Cheerleader movie but I didn't. I heard it was good, though.