tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post8487874777649090584..comments2023-10-07T22:37:49.244+13:00Comments on The Hand Mirror: One film to rule them allkatyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-66016536324940652812012-12-03T14:20:20.006+13:002012-12-03T14:20:20.006+13:00Real Classy, Nonny Moose.
I googled Martin freema...Real Classy, Nonny Moose.<br /><br />I googled Martin freeman and lucy liu, and all I could find, was people complaining that in the American version of Sherlock, they thought that Freeman should've played Holmes.<br /><br />In terms of Peter Jackson, creating 1000's of jobs should be enough for people to congratulated him.<br /><br />But it would appear, ideology rules over, what is best, with some on the left.<br /><br />Brett Dalehttp://mediasportandotherrantings.blogspot.conoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-47085003867109036942012-12-03T12:30:07.560+13:002012-12-03T12:30:07.560+13:00Brett: I see you're incapable of Google-Fu. Pi...Brett: I see you're incapable of Google-Fu. Pity. <br /><br />And I'm still seeing a complete lack of understanding of the gender divide in Hollywood. We should be giving Jackson cookies for "uplifting" women now? Aren't knighthoods, kicking the shit out of our unions, and millions of tax free dollars enough?A_Nonny_Moosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-31527671804237422722012-12-01T14:14:22.002+13:002012-12-01T14:14:22.002+13:00I am unaware of any thing that Martin Freeman said...I am unaware of any thing that Martin Freeman said about Lucy Liu.<br /><br />Do you have a link to his actual comments, and not just some media report saying what he said.<br /><br />Also I mean the woman screenwriters who Peter Jackson fought for to write the screen play for The Hobbit, they should be applaud.<br /><br />In movie making, The director will always be on top, doesn't matter if they're male or female, that is the industry of film making.<br /><br />The Hobbit will open doors for so many people, male or female.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Brett Dalehttp://mediasportandotherrantings.blogspot.co.nz/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-46760986206810612552012-11-30T14:44:48.833+13:002012-11-30T14:44:48.833+13:00Brett: you mean racist, transphobic Martin Freeman...Brett: you mean racist, transphobic Martin Freeman? Yeah, coz I just love actors who say shit about their American opposite (Lucy Liu) and casually chuck transphobic slurs around...<br /><br />And you mean the women screenwriters who no matter how much they bloody try will always be over shadowed in name by geek overlord Peter Jackson?A_Nonny_Moosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-21897169182949675192012-11-29T14:32:23.635+13:002012-11-29T14:32:23.635+13:00Any project with Martin Freeman in it, is going to...Any project with Martin Freeman in it, is going to have artistic metric and be worth seeing.Brett Dalehttp://mediasportandotherrantings.blogspot.conoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-39721649400581194442012-11-29T14:02:19.245+13:002012-11-29T14:02:19.245+13:00I'm so pleased to see this post - a much-neede...I'm so pleased to see this post - a much-needed counterpoint to the pervasive adulation going on, and on, and on - much like the films. Thank you!AnneEhttp://elsewoman.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-84542197438339161562012-11-29T10:19:59.806+13:002012-11-29T10:19:59.806+13:00Cant wait for the Hobbit movie, a remarkable achie...Cant wait for the Hobbit movie, a remarkable achievement for New Zealand and might I say, female screenwriters.Brett Dalehttp://mediasportandotherrantings.blogspot.conoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-41841456577888454752012-11-29T07:56:27.096+13:002012-11-29T07:56:27.096+13:00We are talking about a 75 year old book here, so t...We are talking about a 75 year old book here, so the role of women in the book probably reflects the time it was written. And tinkering with the female roles in the movie would have purists calling for Peter Jacksons blood, so no surprises if there isn't much improvement in the film either. <br /><br />No wait - films. Can't believe they're managing to stretch this one across 3 full movies. Talk about milking something for all it's worth... ChundaMarsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-17148437447906893932012-11-29T07:36:14.956+13:002012-11-29T07:36:14.956+13:00Oh, lovely story Julie :-)
Hey Daniel, loving the...Oh, lovely story Julie :-)<br /><br />Hey Daniel, loving the shared attention to detail. But can't quite defend LOTR in the way you are here. I like both Eowyn and Galadriel as characters - but Eowyn goes to battle feeling hopeless and resigned to death at least partly because Aragorn is not single - imagine her character not so focused on love in this way? And even if those two characters were less problematic, it's still not enough. Absence of women completely vs damaging stories of fairytales - I'm not sure which is more awful personally. Thanks for your detailed comment, much enjoyed :-)LudditeJournohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13154447284268192467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-35577627175928270742012-11-28T20:05:03.925+13:002012-11-28T20:05:03.925+13:00I too want to be a Hobbit lover but can't. I ...I too want to be a Hobbit lover but can't. I was just reflecting tonight that I without the union-bashing (and the rest as it turns out) I would have been significantly more excited about this movie than the LOTR ones. The Hobbit was the book that really turned me on to reading - I remember Miss McDonald trying to read it to our Standard 1 class for mat time and it didn't work out well, as I was the only kid into it. She stopped part way through and switched to something more popular, and I just had to know what happened so I got it out of the library and finished it myself. It was a bit of a watershed moment for me in terms of realising I could read independently!<br /><br />Stupid capitalism, stole my precioussss!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08977150346842277994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770341086445997547.post-57574901361586572512012-11-28T12:37:47.070+13:002012-11-28T12:37:47.070+13:00The Lord of the Rings was an improvement over what...The Lord of the Rings was an improvement over what had gone before, as far as the roles of women went. Have you read Andrea Dworkin's pieces on women in fairy-tales? The dreadfully passive roles they're squeezed into?<br />With Galadriel, Tolkien subverts the trope of the Wicked Witch in the Forest (lampshaded by Boromir's suspicion). Eowyn can hardly be called passive, either.<br />Arwen I'll grant you, but Arwen was a late-comer to the story; Aragorn's role and origins grew with each draft, and earlier he was to have been paired with Eowyn. (Originally, he was another hobbit.)<br />There's another female figure in Middle-Earth (in its far past) who's referred to in LotR, as well: Luthien Tinuviel. She's found in the Silmarillion, but Tolkien originally told her story in a long poem called the Geste of Beren and Luthien -- never finished, and published years after his death by his son. Luthien is not a passive fairy-tale princess either, and at one point Tolkien turns the Rapunzel story on its head -- Luthien, imprisoned in a high tree, grows her hair to a tremendous length by magic, then cuts it off and makes a rope of it to escape.Daniel Copelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05944461326199566111noreply@blogger.com