Thanks for the story of Rani Padmavati. It's cool. Yes please, a movie of that with Aishwarya would be most welcome.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Faramir in LOTR<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In the books, he's my favourite male character. In the movie, they made him an almost-villain. That was quite sad actually.
Post 170 (Rajesh_G)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->i even found lion-king to have a racist angle<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> How? (It's been a while since I watched this and I was still young then)
In any case, Tolkien's telling of Middle-Earth stories does not depend on personal views. (I'd long tried to argue it away as being set in some other universe. But then, couldn't he have avoided introducing dark people altogether? I'm not talking about creatures like orcs or trolls here, but about *humans*)
For instance, in The Silmarillion, when the brown human populations are introduced, the light people trust them, but are betrayed and - a-la the KKK's dawaganda for why segregation and slavery is necessary - the dark males kill or enslave the white householders and take over their female population. I kid you not. Rather distasteful when you think too much on it, at which point it begins to show more than a passing similarity with what the extremists in the west believe.
And here's a place name from the Lord of the Rings, for the country where one of the fell dark peoples who worked for Sauron came from: Khand. And it lies the East, in case anyone was still wondering. And from 'Harad' in the South come 'black' people. It's just Tolkien using this world as a backdrop for his own, but inverting the direction of aggression.
In the Narnia series, its author Lewis infuses how darker populations are more prone to evil, unrighteousness like slavery, sneaking and cunning in war - but since Narnia was just (catholic) christianity disguised under mainly Greek mythology, you have Lewis redeeming 2 brown characters from their evil religion when they convert to Aslan's way (Aslan = jeebus, Lewis never made that a secret). So moral: brown people are evil because of their false demon-gods, but once you get them to accept jeebus, they can be good.
The above is about the Narnia books 'A horse and his boy', 'The last battle' and the first bit of 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader', by the way. Not 'The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe' which was meant to be about jeebus' betrayal, death and resurrection.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Faramir in LOTR<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In the books, he's my favourite male character. In the movie, they made him an almost-villain. That was quite sad actually.
Post 170 (Rajesh_G)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->i even found lion-king to have a racist angle<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> How? (It's been a while since I watched this and I was still young then)
In any case, Tolkien's telling of Middle-Earth stories does not depend on personal views. (I'd long tried to argue it away as being set in some other universe. But then, couldn't he have avoided introducing dark people altogether? I'm not talking about creatures like orcs or trolls here, but about *humans*)
For instance, in The Silmarillion, when the brown human populations are introduced, the light people trust them, but are betrayed and - a-la the KKK's dawaganda for why segregation and slavery is necessary - the dark males kill or enslave the white householders and take over their female population. I kid you not. Rather distasteful when you think too much on it, at which point it begins to show more than a passing similarity with what the extremists in the west believe.
And here's a place name from the Lord of the Rings, for the country where one of the fell dark peoples who worked for Sauron came from: Khand. And it lies the East, in case anyone was still wondering. And from 'Harad' in the South come 'black' people. It's just Tolkien using this world as a backdrop for his own, but inverting the direction of aggression.
In the Narnia series, its author Lewis infuses how darker populations are more prone to evil, unrighteousness like slavery, sneaking and cunning in war - but since Narnia was just (catholic) christianity disguised under mainly Greek mythology, you have Lewis redeeming 2 brown characters from their evil religion when they convert to Aslan's way (Aslan = jeebus, Lewis never made that a secret). So moral: brown people are evil because of their false demon-gods, but once you get them to accept jeebus, they can be good.
The above is about the Narnia books 'A horse and his boy', 'The last battle' and the first bit of 'Voyage of the Dawn Treader', by the way. Not 'The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe' which was meant to be about jeebus' betrayal, death and resurrection.