Funnily enough, Queen B, no.
He was frickin awesome as Voldy though! Nobody does evil quite like Fiennes ...
He must be one of the finest actors on the planet. He's FANTASTIC. I've seen him twice on stage and he has real charisma ... *wonders who he could have played in LOTR*
But a recommendation by Pearl is just what I needed to hear!
Thank you, Athrabeth!
Going back to the film ... it takes a piercing and uncomfortable look at white liberal guilt and Western complicity in unjust systems. And the characters are COMPLEX .and three-dimensional .. Rachel Weizs's character is noble, winsome and likeable but also something of a pain in the neck just because she has such pure principles ... it's actually pretty hard being married to someone who is on a mission.
Fiennes' character is a reserved Englishman who loves his wife tenderly and comes to understand her passion and rage.
And Africa looks utterly ravishing in this film. Brutal and beautiful and ... you can SMELL the landscape, FEEL the open sky.
And there's not one single African character who looks grateful for the whites 'rescuing' them ... thank goodness.
"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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