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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
But I do feel that expecting Jackson to explore in any detail theories concerning the nature of evil in a film of this nature is expecting rather too much from him. For better or for worse (and I make no comment on that for now), it is just not something that the majority of his intended audience would be expecting from the film.
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Good thing Tolkien wasn't as obsessed with giving
his 'audience' only 'what they expected', then, or we'd just have gotten a sequel to TH: another whimsical children's book, no LotR, no Sil, & no LotR movies either, for that matter.
Still, Tolkien was an artist & followed his muse, Jackson seems to have followed the audience & to have given us very little beyond stereotypically pretty pictures & a deal of gruesome imagery.
Apart from what he lifted (inaccurately for the most part) from Tolkien, did anyone actually learn anything from watching Jackson's adaptation - & before you say that wasn't what the movies were about,
could anyone have learnt anything from them - was there anything
to learn?