Re: Article in the "Village Voice" about the Tolkien Movies

En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

>
> I heard some interesting critic of Tolkien last autumn - a guy said
> that
> Tolkiens work was remarkably un-original and cliché-filled. I asked for
> an
> example of this un-originality, and the guy replied that Tolkien didn't
> even
> bother to think up any monsters of his own, but used those dreadfully
> clichéed orcs. I of course told him Tolkien invented the orcs, but I
> doubt
> he believed me.
>
In the manga world, Tezuka Osamu suffers the same problem. Many critics say that
his work is cliché-filled, especially the giant robots of some of his mangas.
those critics only prove their ignorance: it is Tezuka who invented the concept
of giant robots.

Christophe.

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