Why doesn’t Hollywood just dispense with all this pretense and do what it really wants to do – make
Bored of the Rings instead. From “Of the Finding of the Ring”,
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As is told in the volume previous to this hound, Valley of the Trolls, Dildo Bugger set out one day with a band of demented dwarves and a discredited Rosicrucian named Goodgulf to separate a dragon from his hoard of short-term municipals and convertible debentures. The quest was successful, and the dragon, a prewar basilisk who smelled like a bus, was taken from behind while he was clipping coupons...
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Surely
this is more along the lines of “modern cinema”. Sex sells. So get rid of all this nonsense about “sticking to the story”, and let them …
hm … dress it up a bit. Or sell out to Disney. Whatever makes the biggest buck in the shortest time.
After all, how many Hollywood producers have ever actually
read a book? Considering the quality of their productions, how many of them actually
read? Their lawyers –
they can read, of course, but … stick to a story? That’s so gauche! Bring out the voluptuous elf-maidens!
Bring out your dead!