What is it about the success of the second “Lord of the Rings” film (which I sadly have yet to see) that brings out the worst snobbish attitudes of the self-appointed “cultural elite”?
The stupid rant in The Times by an ivory-towered academic is a typical exampled, perfectly summed up by Andrea Harris:
Average price of ticket to see The Two Towers in the theater: US$7.50. Box office earnings of said film over its five-day debut: $75.1 million. Expression on the face of a postmodern academic who realizes that none of the theories of Deconstruction that he devoted his life to have made any impression on society: priceless.
Personally I loved it when a bookshop poll a few years back nominated Lord of the Rings as the greatest novel of all time, and seeing the critics like the odious Tony Parsons aghast.
