NP "the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, let's spell this out ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, no, that was what I understood you to be
> asserting ...

Maybe it's not clear that I was generally speaking
about the way in which those stories might be taken up
at any given moment, given whatever notions of good
'n' evil, and who counts at what, prevail at any given
moment.  Not only, how are people watching these
films, but what went into them in the first place, in,
indeed, a different context, but one shaped by the
same events as the present ...

Further asserting that it'd be disingenuous of Tolkien
not to recognize that the trilogy would inevitably be
read in light of WWII, and even more didingenuous to
deny its influence.  One simply does not miss out on
an entire World War, not whilst writing about one. 
Again, this is hardly to claim any of this as the key
to Tolkien, but ... 

Well, look at the trajectory of WWII films during the
Vietnam era, as they incresaingly cynical, culminating
in, say, Kelly's Heroes.  Novels, films, whatever,
about war, society, whatever "elsewhere/when" cannot
help but be taken, cannot help but be offered as
having some ... relationship to the similar events of
their own particular here and now ...

There's an interesting article about the contexts and
politics of film adaptations of Wm. Shakespeare's
Henry V (e.g., Laurence Olivier's WWII version,
Kenneth Branagh's Thatcher-era production) I'm gonna
hafta dig for here, I believe ...

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