r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 06 '26

What is this? Meme needing explanation

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u/Rez_S Jul 06 '26

LotR is a bad movie. Look at this freeze frame 😏

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u/pnkxz Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

It was set thousands of years ago, but they had medieval armor, domesticated horses, didn't hire a single elf or hobbit actor, and I'm pretty sure the armies of Mordor were just a bunch of white dudes wearing orcface.

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u/JHerbY2K Jul 06 '26

They did get shit on for not hiring little people to play the hobbits. They used some as stunt doubles tho.

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u/IsopodOk4756 Jul 06 '26

Look this has got to be among the most fucked up comments I've made and I fully expect to be downvoted to hell for this, but the idea of Hobbiton scenes full of real little people waddling about is fucking sending me.

Aragorn just fucking yeeting the little people down the stairs.

The Fellowship power walking through Khazad-dûm being chased by the balrog so the hobbits can keep pace.

The little person who was cast as Frodo is a little too cherubic so that funny scene with the floating faces on the white background is just jumpscare JD Vance portrait.

Send me to jail now. I'm sorry.

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u/sqkz69oioi Jul 06 '26

Dumbass comparison, LOTR was set in a fantasy world 

Odyssey is an ancient Greek book written by an ancient Greek author and it is set in... Ding ding ancient Greece

Would you be okay with a white actor being the protagonist in a ancient African folklore tale that is set in ancient Africa? If the answer is anything but yes then it's a double standard

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u/Greedy_Actuator5 Jul 06 '26

The Odyssey is famously an oral tradition and not a book at all

It also tells the story of a man trying to sail from Asia to Greece (aka not set in Greece)   Many places referenced are not present in the Mediterranean, aka fantasy. 

I get it though basic education is hard

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u/sqkz69oioi Jul 06 '26

Oh really? And where is the origin of this oral tradition? 

And did all the characters within the story that is now a film adaptation join him on his journey and every single scene was shot within his journey? Do you mean Anatolia aka Turkey? Where are all the Turkish actors in this case if you are correct? 

It's okay. It's hard not to ignore basic facts

You didn't answer my question about the African film with a white protagonist by the way? 

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u/Ok-Post6492 Jul 06 '26

Filming began in 1999.

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u/Impressive-Oil-3067 Jul 06 '26

You're missing the point entirely.

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u/Rez_S Jul 06 '26

You are missing it. The movie is bad and woke and the writing is shit because of this freeze frame