Me: Dad, I think you're exaggerating th— Dad: You find rootless young men & tell them they can be part of something bigger if they kill.
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The problem with movies is that people latch on to things that look cool, and messages are lost.
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Very good point
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e.g. why The Great Gatsby is hard as a movie, b/c all that gaudy 20s decor and dress so awesome.
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Movies of GG, IIRC, elide the stinking sweat of Tom's apartment, the grossness of G's parties, the dust
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Elements of LotR also try to formulate an answer to q. "What do you do with aestheticized industrial power"
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Which is "throw it in a volcano, and accept that this means you have to accept mortality & let the elves go"
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maybe if someone films the Dagger & Coin series
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Have you read the comic/sequel? It touches on this.
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Not to be a rando here but I remember David Fincher interviewed in 99 saying he'd intended his take on the book to be satire
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because he found himself unable to take it seriously like Chuck Palahniuk did.
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"We don't need any more gazelle pelts, thank you. It has changed. Change with it. Get over it."- Fincher
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