[lit-ideas] Re: Frodo failed,

From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:24:08 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

I saw Ice Age II last weekend as a break from several weeks of China. It was okay, but I was struck by how dark it was. The child animals were a tamer version of Lord of the Flies, really humanly nasty. Mostly, though, I was struck by how uncertain everything was. It was almost as if the writers picked up, probably unconsciously, the global warming uncertainty. When the animals were going into the Ice Age there was a joyousness, a feel good quality to it. Ice Age II is filled with a sense of danger looming in the background. I guess maybe it's because we know what happened after the ice age came and went, but we have no certain idea as to where the world will wind up when all the ice melts now. I almost didn't like the movie except for that, what's the word, sense of empathy with today's situation.

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From: Paul Stone
Sent: Jan 17, 2007 4:23 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Frodo failed,

At 04:13 PM 1/17/2007, you wrote:

I wonder whether the Star Wars script writers did their allegorising (?) consciously or unconsciously. Consider:

1. The Dark Lord creates a false enemy and through this starts a war.

2. He attains democratic power under false pretenses.

3. He actively supports the fight against the false enemy.

4. He turns against the democratic system and manipulates its demise using emergency powers made necesarry by the war.

5. He sees through the destruction of the false enemy thereby ending the war.

6. He creates an empire.

Try watching the later films with this model in mind. Intruiging.

There is NO doubt in my mind that Lucas put Bush (and his buddies) in the last film -- Part III, can't remember the name, something about "revenge of the sith" maybe? Other than naming the characters after real dudes, there is direct allusions all the way through.

p

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Paul Stone
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Kingsville, ON, Canada

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