Jul. 1
A day late and far more than a dollar short, here I am reminding you that this week's Films of High Adventure column is live over at Fantasy Magazine. We take on the animated versions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King. There's nothing more to this post, but remember that small can be beautiful. Let the paining begin!
Man, that sounds like it would be a great reading list for high schoolers! And LOLZ at the spiral of DOOOOOOM--Molly and I both got a chuckle out of that as well!
Sep 1: Films of High Adventure, Volume I Can’t Be Bothered To Check Right Now: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Aug 27: Films of High Adventure, and Stuff
Jul 29: A Dispatch from the Fens
Jul 15: Impending Travel Itinerary
Jul 15: Films of High Adventure Hiatus
Jul 8: Films of High Adventure, Volume 18: Terminator Deuce
Jul 2: New Project Update, Recent Diversions, and Chess
Jul 1: Films of High Adventure, Volume 17: Rankin/Bass Double Feature at Fantasy
Jun 23: Films of High Adventure, Volume 16: The Terminator
Jun 20: Interview Round-up
Jun 16: Films of High Adventure, Volume 15: Watership Down
Jun 13: Beastly Odds and Ends on a Dreary Sunday
Jun 9: Films of High Adventure, Volume 14: From Beyond
Jun 9: Films of High Adventure, Volume 14: From Beyond
Jun 8: Back From Florida
May 31: Last Day of Gemmell Award Voting. Also: Reading, Blathering
May 21: Quick Reading Update
May 19: Films of High Adventure, Volume 13: Faerie Tale Theatre
May 13: Tim Wise—The Pathology of Privilege
May 12: Films of High Adventure, Volume 12: Big Trouble in Little China
May 10: The Enterprise of Death Cover Art
May 7: Non-Films of High Adventure Update. Gasp!
May 5: Films of High Adventure, Volume 11: The Beefmaster
Apr 28: Films of High Adventure, Volume Ten: Legend
Apr 21: Films of High Adventure, Volume Nine: A Raging Case of VHD
Apr 14: Films of High Adventure, Volume Eight: Rhymes With Spank Girl
Apr 9: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going
Apr 2: Films of High Adventure, Volume Seven: Raechel’s Super Birthday Witch Party
Mar 26: Films of High Adventure, Volume Six: The Classice Storye of a Knighte, a Birde, and a Thiefe
Mar 24: Bronson
I taught _The Hobbit_ to high school sophomores at Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington, NM from 1994-99 (along with other examples of the "Hero's Journey", including _The Odyssey_, _L'Inferno_, the Navajo Hero Twins Story, _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, and Stephen King's _Misery_. My students generally enjoyed _The Hobbit_ pretty well. After we were done with the novel, I would show the Rankin/Bass cartoon. We always got a big kick out of how no characters died on screen; instead, they would spiral away as if being flushed down an immense, screenwide commode. Watch for the spiral...
Scott Nicolay on Jul. 7, 2010 at 12:04 AM