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...great measure that's because it is so marvelously acted, starting with Charlie Hunnam as the eponymous hero. Blond but never bland in his stalwart innocence, he is determined to protect his desperately impoverished mother and sister and his crippled, loving friend Smike (Jamie Bell) from the machinations of dastardly Uncle Ralph...
...because it is an escape from the real world, that all fantasy is simple, black-and-white and unrealistic. The deeper meaning of The Lord of the Rings trilogy is that there is potential for evil in us all and there is also potential for good. Although the hobbit hero Frodo may have failed to resist the temptation of the magic Ring, it is the slithery Gollum--thought to be nothing more than a nuisance--who ultimately destroys the Ring. Tolkien presents these profound ideas in the guise of an old-fashioned sword-and-sorcery epic. But the characters...
...Suffering Hero...
...national presidential election only one week hence, it is time for this writer to express his heretofore-hidden views on this matter of great national importance. Several years removed from the Second World War, many pundits in these pages have called for the Re-Election of President Truman, the Hero of Hiroshima and Man from Independence (Missouri). Others plug the virtues of the Thomas Dewey/Earl Warren Republican ticket...
Some might dismiss this conclusion as yet another misguided, ultimately hollow, cry against conspiracy. But conservative forces have already successfully distorted the legacy of a progressive hero. Michael Eric Dyson explains this process in detail in his biography of Martin Luther King, I May Not Get There With You: “Conservatives must be applauded for their perverse ingenuity in coopting King’s legacy and the rhetoric of the civil rights movement…Now terms like “equal playing field,” “racial justice...