2011-03-22, 12:08 | Link #23 |
Seishu's Ace
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I read the LotR books at least 3-4 times before the movies came out, and I was pretty skeptical that a decent film adaptation could ever be made (I thought the best effort, actually, was Ralph Bakshi's animated one that ended in the middle for lack of money). In the end, I think PJ did about as well as anyone could do. There was stuff that drove me crazy (how could you leave out Tom Bombadil?) and stuff that midly annoyed me. But given the limits of the medium, I have a hard time believing you could do a better job bringing these books to film - especially the Director's Editions on the DVDs. Are the books better? Of course - but that's not a fair comparison.
As for "The Hobbit" in some ways it should theoretically be much easier to translate than LotR. You'll have to leave a lot less stuff out, for one. People who haven't read the books may not realize how different the tone is, and I hope PJ doesn't try to blur those differences too much to play to that audience. The Hobbit should be very different - it's a much lighter, funnier and more wistful story and if he keeps it that way, I think these films will be very successful.
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Tolkien wrote the Hobbit intending it initially as a children's story (remember the onomatopoeia in it?) and but couldn't avoid dumping a lot of stuff in it as background along with some fairly adult complexity towards the end.
When my sons were young, I tried reading the Hobbit to them but it was a failure each time we tried. Oddly they were entranced by LOTR and I ended up reading the entire thing aloud to them (twice, once for each son and often the older one would wander by and sit during bedtime story for #2 son). Quote:
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2011-03-22, 17:59 | Link #26 |
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This is actually going to be another trilogy.With the Hobbit being the first movie then Peter Jackson will make a two part adaptation of The Silmarillion (the story of the first Age, when the first Dark Lord Mordor wage war against the ancient world.)The Silmarillion is the one I'm waiting for, since it has the greatest battles in the LOTR universe.
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2011-03-22, 18:03 | Link #27 |
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The Silmarillion bored me when I read it. But then it was the first Tolkien novel I read, so I have no context for that world. So it read to me like the Bible. If the Peter Jackson films had not come out, I probably would not have read Tolkien's other novels. (I was required to read the Silmarillion for a college course.)
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2011-03-22, 19:05 | Link #30 |
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I like some of the stories now, but when I read it I had no context for any of it. I do hope the Hobbit comes out alright. I'm not sure how they will handle the singing...especially from the elves of Rivendel. Rivendel is such a different place emotion wise between the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring.
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2011-07-24, 12:11 | Link #39 |
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More video blog updates from Peter Jackson on the Hobbit.
End of Block One shooting and Location Hunting inNew Zealand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqk5c_i7LQU Dwarves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t47TXEi0No0
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