Taylor

And you just know, like, Oh, here we go.

There's, there's the agenda.

And then sure enough, you've got like, you know, race swapped elves and black hobbits and all this.

And it's like, okay, you know, me,

there you could like there's the haradrim there's men of the south who you could maybe say are of a different skin tone in middle earth and like that's fine we can incorporate that but but it's just so clearly like you're zeroed in on making this a thing uh because you know once again we have to repackage this same shallow narratives and messaging of modern sensibilities uh

over this cherished beloved source material that has its own things to say like how arrogant is it as a writer as a showrunner as as an actor someone who's involved in these projects to presume that what you have to offer the world what you have to say the way that you are going to repackage what this you know transcendent author someone like jk rowling or jr tolkien or who wrote the hugger games with suzanne suzanne collins collins yeah i knew the first name

um like oh yeah i'm gonna improve upon this by and by adding my own spin on characters or interpreting things and or or just jamming painting you know lipstick on a pig like like modern my modern message and sensibilities on something that has its that stands on its own and that the right way to do an adaptation is to like uh peter jackson famously said in in the original first lord of the lord of the rings trilogy he was like we we wanted to honor tolkien by putting his messages into the film not our own and

Since then, he's even strayed with that with some of the new War of the Reherent movie was girl boss themed.

The Hobbits were kind of overly done with CGI and spread out.

It seems like it's such a simple thing.

Understand the assignment.

Hollywood used to be able to do this.

Hey, you have this precious source material that means so much to people.

I don't have to add my own stuff on it.

Just bring it to life in a way that the audience already connects and vibes with.

And don't put stuff in their way like forced diversity or forced narratives or whatever.

And just let the thing be what it is.

And people will connect with it because what the author came up with is what is good and what is layered with meaning and what resonates in their lives and in their heart and is true to life.

But what you add on top of it is just barriers that you're putting in between the audience and the thing that actually resonates with them.

Yeah, I think it's ideological and financial are the two motivations.