“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month, and Polygon celebrated by talking with co-screenwriter Philippa Boyens about crafting one of the most iconic feminist moments in blockbuster film history: Éowyn’s “I am no man!” Boyens won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing the J.R.R. Tolkien film with Fran Walsh and director Peter Jackson.
“It’s one of the great lines,” Boyens said. “[Fran and I] were female screenwriters who had to write for all these male characters, and then we finally get this woman to write for, and she has to pretend to be a man.”
“Rings” fans know the Éowyn moment well. After being ordered by her uncle Théoden (Bernard Hill), King of Rohan, not to ride into battle, Éowyn (Miranda Otto) disguises herself as a man and finds herself staring down the Witch-king of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgûl.
“It’s one of the great lines,” Boyens said. “[Fran and I] were female screenwriters who had to write for all these male characters, and then we finally get this woman to write for, and she has to pretend to be a man.”
“Rings” fans know the Éowyn moment well. After being ordered by her uncle Théoden (Bernard Hill), King of Rohan, not to ride into battle, Éowyn (Miranda Otto) disguises herself as a man and finds herself staring down the Witch-king of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgûl.
- 12/20/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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