[HPFGU-Movie] Re:Oscars, HP Directors!

[Shannon]

At 09:54 PM 3/5/2002 -0000, you wrote:
>again in theatres. But I will ask you to try to go over in your mind 
>the movie, and see exactly where they explained that Boromir didn't 
>hate the hobbits? All they showed was him arguing with the council 
>that they shouldn't be defending the ring, that they shouldn't be 
>allowed to go(and as I recall being the fantasy version of a racist 
>in the process).

Hmm.  In that scene, Boromir suggests they use the Ring, not destroy it.  I
can't recall him making any references to any characters, with the
exception of Aragorn.  At the point he does this, it's not even established
yet that Frodo will be the one to take the Ring to Mordor.  No, he never
actually SAYS that he likes the Hobbits (he doesn't even know them yet...in
fact probably the only one he'd even seen was Frodo) but there's no reason
to think he doesn't, either.  The only 'racist' elements of that scene are
between Legolas and Gimli.  Gimli starts out hating the elves, and Legolas
doesn't care for Dwarves, either. Maybe you're inadvertently combining the
actions of these three characters?  But Boromir is never shown to have
anything against the Hobbits.  So it's not terribly surprising when you see
him goofing around with Merry & Pippin later.

As far as whether I know all this from the books or the movie...I couldn't
tell you for myself.  It seems pretty obvious to me.  I know quite a few
people who haven't read the books, and upon questioning, they never got the
impression that Boromir didn't like the Hobbits...it was the mission he
disliked.

>However, none of his dialogue seemed to denote that 
>it wasn't a personal matter, or that he really liked them but just 
>didn't want them there at that moment. 

Again, I just don't see where you're getting this notion.  Boromir doesn't
even acknowledge the Hobbits until the end of the Council, when Frodo says,
in one of the things taken straight from the book (and one of the things
that made me keep trying to read it for 20 years) "I will take the Ring,
though I do not know the way."  :)

Shannon