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| Re: You mean, "LoTR: The Prequel" *OT* | |
| Posted By: Urban Reflex | Date: 12/21/11 1:25 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: You mean, "LoTR: The Prequel" *OT* (Beckx) : I have such conflicted feelings. The Hobbit is a children's story. It : features goblins that sing a silly song called "Fifteen Birds in Five : Fir Trees" while trying to burn Thorin & Co alive; it features : silly elves making mocking fun of dwarven beards. Parts of this trailer : seem to understand the book, while others seem to be trying to force it to : fit the tone of LotR, which is so very different. : Things I like: the visual appearance of the dwarves; the singing (both the
: Things that did not need to be: Thorin's "guarantee his safety"
: It is like the predecessor movies in this regard: so carefully done; so
: Watching this trailer is like a microcosm of how I feel about the first three
: Deeply conflicted (as perhaps only someone with a Tolkien tattoo on his
I can understand where you're coming from. The thing is though, neither The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings could translate directly into film and still be any good. They're very much fine examples of story telling in book form, and that can rarely go unaltered when making the transition to film. The way I look at it is just to take them for what they are, the books are books and the films are films, each telling the same story but in different ways that make the most sense for their medium.
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