Re: PJ vs. the Tolkien estate.

"Aris Katsaris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "jere7my tho?rpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
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> > > You have to wonder how this might be different if the movies had been
> > > truer to the source.  If Christopher T. doesn't feel comfortable with
> > > PJ's "masterpiece", I don't blame him one bit for using whatever ammo
he
> > > has.  Call it an indirect critique of the films, without having to
> > > validate them with a real opinion.  I say good for him.
> >
> >      It's just petty.  How would you feel if you were one of those WETA
> > workshoppers who spent three years rolling links for chain mail until
> > you lost your fingerprints, or pounded out a few hundred swords at the
> > forge, or got a backache bending down to detail Theoden's armor?
>
> The main argument in defense of PJ's directorial decisions is that the
> books and the films are different critters altogether. Faramir's too noble
> for their taste, so they cut him out. PJ never liked the Scouring, so it's
> cut out.
>
> As such I don't see why the Tolkien Estates should give any more
> authority for this "museum" to happen, than they should have given to
> any other non-PJ related museum who attempts to use Tolkien's work
> for own benefits.
>
> > Forget Jackson's
> > script and direction; these were hard-working craftspeople, many of them
> > rabid Tolkien fans, who made some pretty damn cool stuff.
>
> Except that this seems to be *Jackson* trying to get a museum created,
> not the "hard-working" craftspeople. Would the hard-working craftspeople
> get their share of the money, or would it go to Jackson and New Line
Cinema
> instead, and the hard-working people treated as just employees with no
more
> say on that?
>
> I'm all in favour of a "museum" that offers specimens connected to
> Tolkien-related interpretions from all over -- Bakshi's film, PJ's films,
> paintings by numerous artists...
>
> But this seems nothing but an attempt by Peter Jackson and New
> Line Cinema to make some more money, using only their own
> exclusive Tolkien *mis*interpretations.
>
> Why should the Estate oblige them?
>
> Aris Katsaris
>
>

It was local New Zealand governments that want to open the museum, as a
tourist attraction.  They wanted to show and house the movie stuff.  Jackson
is not adverse, but is just saying that he can't do anything if the Estate
won't allow it.