From: Natasa Tucev tucev@tesla.rcub.bg.ac.yu
I used the example of the 13th Warrior to show that there can even be a great discrepancy between the author's conscious and unconscious
intentions.
On the conscious level, it's a good action movie; on the subconscious
level,
it reveals irrational animosity towards the Earth Mother and everything
she
stands for. The collective unconscious which permeates the 13th Warrior could be the same collective unconscious responsible, for instance, for
the
reckless exploitation of the Amazon woods.
I wouldn't be so sure of asserting that its irrational animosity is all that unconscious. I haven't read Crichton's original novel (Eaters of the Dead), but I gather he and director John 'Die Hard' McTiernan had a major bust-up during filming and McTiernan won. The only Crichton novel I've read was Jurassic Park, and that contained several sharp digs at the kind of attitude embodied in 13W.
Neil