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| | Dungeons & Dragons (2000): Justin Whalin, Marlon Wayans, Zoe McLellan, Thora Birch - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | Admittedly, the dragons are pretty cool -- these CGI monsters swoop and slither through the skies wreaking havoc and leaving waste in their paths. |
 | | D&D the game allows them to inhabit characters that are at the center of all the action, to reimagine ethics and a normative social order, and to reflect on very real questions of liberty and equality through fictional race relations (Human, Elf, Dwarf, etc.). |
 | | While Dungeons & Dragons is directly concerned with class-based prejudice (Empress Savina's political party-line is that Mages and commoners must be regarded as equal), it elides the ways its own representations reproduce racial prejudices -- Human, Elf, and Dwarf are definitely not the same in this universe, and nowhere near equal. |
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