So as we all have seen that the Amazon LOTR based show will go down the usual representation route which wasn't a surprise. I have to admit I foolishly thought they would respect Tolkein's legacy when I first heard of this project but that was foolish. Also when they fired the lore expert that was a major red flag.
I am getting sick and tired of entertainment saying the whole "reflect the modern world" or "reflect modern society" BS. LOTR has always been for anyone who wanted to read it, and it has been translated into many languages. I remember someone once got mad at me for saying that if you need to see yourself represented in everything, then you have a problem because you can go online and look up anything or read a book on a famous female, black, Asian, latino, etc. scientist, doctor, or whatever if that is so important to you. Why shows have to cater to these morons is beyond me.
Of course Wheel of Time suffers from the same problem. In the books they meet people of different races once they go out into the larger world and women in power are all over the books but that isn't enough.
As for lgbt stuff, I have said for years... get your own channel and write your own stories if you insist that lgbt content needs to be in everything. I remember Nerdrotic responded to someone who said that not everything has to have straight people, and he said that is true but not everything needs to have gay people and in a larger point not everything has to have everything in it.
Honestly I wish they would just stop crapping on source material of much better writers than they could ever be. They should start adapting the garbage that wins the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Sorry for the rant, just so tired of it, but thankfully I have mountains of books. They can't take those away.
They have folklore but what I’m talking about’s a lot greater than that. Great works of literature. Not just stories, but things like Paradise Lost, Lord of the Rings, the Odyssey and Iliad, Don Quijote, Shakespeare, 1984, Animal Farm, the Lovecraft works, Brave New World, Wizard of Oz, Lord of the Flies, Wrinkle in Time, there’s no end to them. Most of the world has absolutely nothing like that or approaching it. They’re all great works of western literature. You’re supposed to read them and get to know the culture of the characters and the time they were from and connect it with now and how it can all still wonderfully resonate and be of immense value. With film it’s the same thing, from Citizen Kane to Psycho all the way to Disney and all else.
What they’re doing is like writing another Bible but now you have Nigga Jezus and for what? For fucking what? Why not make a white Martin Luther King Jr? Why not remake Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon but it’s all gingers?
They’re taking great works that were about the people that brought them into being and the lives they lived and the concerns they grappled with and recasting them and rewriting them to be about absolute nonsense. If I were growing up now and watching these films I’d fucking avoid any movie with black or female actors because any time you see a film parading them around it’s a shitty desecration of a great work. At least the original LotR films understood just how valued and cherished the books were and did their best to honor at least a fraction of that in their own Hollywood way.
I’ve done some writing and even though I’ve never done any comedy or satire I’m going to attempt a story like the producers where a guy makes a movie about Shaka Zulu and casts a white woman for the role. Since that have that stupid Anne boyelin and Vikings race swaps of historic figures.
But like you said if there is a modern show a major red flag is if the hype the fact that it has a female or black lead. Because you know it’s going to be all about race or sex. Usually if it’s a Hispanic lead then we get the open borders immigration arguments
Haha, hope that turns out!
There’s a show called Euphoria I’m avoiding because it’s trying to sell itself on drugged up children having sex, lead is black, costar appears to be trans…I mean what the fuck could that even be about? And who the fuck is trying to watch people pretending to be underaged children have sex?
I don’t care about someone being gay but we should have pretended to care deeply about that and claimed never to accept it to hold the line on that.
Pedophiles. More than anything they want pedophilia to become mainstream so that they can groom children without fear of punishment.