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In Reply to: Meanwhile, back at Mount Doom... posted by clarkjohnsen on December 20, 2003 at 11:45:12:
Nice to see some criticism for a change: the film is overstated; and many of the lines are clunkers (and the songs made me sink in my chair). As for this statement, however:Neither is any of the many rallying cries in the film as eloquent as her defiant, "I am no man!" Jackson’s empowered females (two of the film’s scriptwriters are women) are a definite improvement on Tolkien’s sexism.
For a guy writing when war was exclusively the business of men (by and large, or course, it still is), I'd say the role Tolkien gave to Eowyn was pretty bold. Her success on the field is very much in line with the unlikely-heroes theme of the books: the enemy never gave the Shire the consideration it deserved; the witch king, who can't be hurt by men, is brought down by a hobbit and a woman. And I'm not sure the tokenism of Liv Tyler's weak role in the films did much to further the cause of women.
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- I thought the review was fine - Bulkington 12:22:07 12/22/03 (1)
- The whole LOTR being about dangers from power misuse, this Tolkien took from "Macbeth" - orejones 02:42:36 12/23/03 (0)
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