{"id":1840,"date":"2004-03-03T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T18:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/03\/1840.html"},"modified":"2004-03-03T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T18:26:23","slug":"star-wars-vs-lotr-vs-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/03\/star-wars-vs-lotr-vs-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars vs. LotR vs. Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A year and a half ago, I pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/film\/50reasons.html\">50 Reasons Lord of the Rings \"Sucks\"<\/a>; now I'm pleased to see that the author, Dr. Oxford, has a new essay in which he compares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/film\/trilogy.html\">Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, and Star Wars<\/a> and determines, with scientific objectivity, which of the three is best.  He uses five main criteria: Source Material, Characters, Story Themes and Symbolism, Visual Effects, and Ghost Swordfighting Scene.<\/p>\n<p>A few of my favorite bits:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>George Lucas' epic is based on the Akira Kurosawa film <cite>The Seven Samurai,<\/cite> a 1954 Japanese masterpiece wherein a team of 19th Century Samurai free a princess by attacking a space station.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the new trilogy, Anakin Skywalker portrays a damning indictment of technology's modern dehumanization of mankind through Hayden Christensen's lifeless, almost inhuman performance. There is a river of tragedy in every robotic line he utters, a horrific monotonal indication of his cyborgal fate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A sci-fantasy epic's narrative is only as strong as its ghost\/human swordfighting sequence. These, of all the scenes, require the most skillful storytelling hand lest the audience notice the sheer magnitude of the premise's ridiculousness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to read the bibliography at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now I think I can face the day.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year and a half ago, I pointed to 50 Reasons Lord of the Rings &#8220;Sucks&#8221;; now I&#8217;m pleased to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}