I'm not sure how a New Critical education will help with the problem here. Even when (as with science) the flaw is getting facts from fiction, the problem is that facts or pseudo-facts get into one's head without a clear label as to where they came from. And movies in particular are an extremely vivid communicative device. When the movie is about facts, has a lot of actual facts, especially ones you can't get any other way (without being an astronaut yourself, you can't see the nature of the space light that Ivins saw, and the little movie cameras they took up with them don't cut it), it's tougher to separate the real facts from the made-up stuff if you don't already know.
In the case of LOTR, where all the facts in question are made-up ones about fictional characters anyway, the movie expands on points that contradict the book but which, having come earlier, the book is not specifically concerned to rebut; consequently, they fill the new person's head from the movie and aren't expunged by the book.
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Date: 2013-10-08 07:41 pm (UTC)In the case of LOTR, where all the facts in question are made-up ones about fictional characters anyway, the movie expands on points that contradict the book but which, having come earlier, the book is not specifically concerned to rebut; consequently, they fill the new person's head from the movie and aren't expunged by the book.