There's another story-telling choice he makes in the trilogy that I've always had a problem with. He decided that the One Ring was an ultimate corrupter, and because he used that frame, he steals agency from the characters when they interact with hit. It's not Boromir's fault that he is overwhelmed by his lust for the ring. (And what he does to the character of Faramir is a crime!) There are also other subtle distortions of the ways people interact with each other and with the Ring that come out of that view of the Ring as a thief of agency.
And now I wonder if Jackson actually believes in agency. And if he understands what a story really is.
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Date: 2019-01-30 12:23 am (UTC)There's another story-telling choice he makes in the trilogy that I've always had a problem with. He decided that the One Ring was an ultimate corrupter, and because he used that frame, he steals agency from the characters when they interact with hit. It's not Boromir's fault that he is overwhelmed by his lust for the ring. (And what he does to the character of Faramir is a crime!) There are also other subtle distortions of the ways people interact with each other and with the Ring that come out of that view of the Ring as a thief of agency.
And now I wonder if Jackson actually believes in agency. And if he understands what a story really is.