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...with his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, movie studios were falling over themselves in his praise and to hire him. Universal succeeded. Jackson was given $200 million to remake “King Kong,” Marion C. Cooper’s 1933 classic, as an adventure film...
Jackson benefits from this classic three act structure taken from the original film. Quite simply, he is not good with original screenwriting—a fact previously obscured by the privilege of working from the best-written fantasy novels in the English language. All scenes that are meant to be written as deep and aphoristic are astonishingly silly...
...film version of C.S. Lewis’ classic “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” recently arrived in theatres. If you read the book as a kid, or, like me, had it read to you, you would very likely be surprised by some of the ink that has recently been spilled over its screen adaptation. In a culture corrupted by filth and overflowing with movies whose artistic merit is alternately minimal or non-existent, it is odd that a film and a story as well-crafted and as beautiful as “Narnia?...
...Harvard to expand Islamic studies, the University announced yesterday. The donation will be used to launch a University-wide Islamic studies program and to endow four senior professorships, according to a press release. The gift will also fund a new initiative, the Islamic Heritage Project, which will digitize classic Islamic texts and make them available via the internet. Alwaleed, who is the nephew of the late King Fahd, became the center of controversy shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks, when he pledged $10 million to the Twin Towers Fund. The mayor of New York City at the time, Rudolph...
...these shortcomings are minor; and despite such distractions from the main showcase, the ATC production succeeds in its portrayal of a rarely considered, but nonetheless important, character perspective on a classic tragedy...