Some amusement for those interested in the Movie:
Current Rumors
08-27-00: In a recent press release to the world media, Jackson openly
admits that he has thrown all caution to the winds and decided to "go with
the flow" of Twentyfirst Century popular ethics. "I can't afford to offend
anybody - even with all my new financial backing," Jackson confessed. "So
I've decided to go with a 'modern' interpretation of Lord Of The Rings.
Aragorn will be an African American, Arwen a feminist with latent lesbian
tendencies. The dubious 'no-women-in-their-life' status of Merry and Pippin,
Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli and Boromir will be brought out overtly and Eowyn's
infatuation with Aragorn will be admitted as indicative of her Electra
complex."
When pressed to reveal more of his "go with the flow" approach, Jackson
freely declared that the Easterlings would be represented as an exploited
people reacting against Numenorian imperialism, and Sauron as a charismatic
leader with independent moral values, reflecting a unique cosmology that
shouldn't be judged by White Male Hero standards. As for Orcs, Trolls, Uruk
Hai and other "baddies", Jackson will be subtely directing the audience to
sympathise with them as pre-scientific genetic experiments that went awry.
"We should feel sorry for the Orcs," Jackson states. "It's not their fault
they are so mean and nasty. They are the unfortunate results of a poor diet,
a low socio-economic background and absent or negligent parenting. If
anything, we ought to try to understand them rather than judge them... I
mean, isn't that in the spirit of inclusion that characterises the current
Western mood?"
Latest reports have it that Jackson's final scene will have Aragorn shaking
hands with Gothmog and Gandalf leading the armies of Mordor in a rousing
chorus of 'Kumbaja!' -- WORMTONGUE