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[The Hobbit] Rough cut is in the wild!
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How do you know this? Until you actually see the film you have no idea how the experience will inform the narrative. I really don't see Jackson as a gimmicky director. Nothing in his past work shouts gimmicky. I can understand thinking Cameron is a crazy asshole in love with technology for technology sake, but Jackson seems to be more in love with classic techniques than with technology.
Just look at all the model work done in LOTR and King Kong. Look at all of his earlier films. Even as much as I hated the film, look at the work on the Lovely Bones. It's all classic film making, where the technology is used to inform the narrative. Unless Warner Brothers forced him to work in this way on the Hobbit, I kinda doubt he'd be doing this without reason.
How would you suggest that a resolution/framerate enhancement would alter the narrative, especially considering that current resolutions and framerates are doing well enough?
Would it be enough to say that it could alter / improve the film going experience? I don't know if it really will, but I hate to turn down a potential improvement just because things are fine as they are. Isn't better a good thing?
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I think the Hobbit is better then the Lord of the Rings.
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I don't know. I haven't seen the movie. I'm giving Jackson a chance to prove that this makes sense. I'm not saying it will make sense, I'm saying I'm willing to give it a chance before passing judgment on it. Which is not something you're willing to do. It bothers me to see someone pass judgement on something without having any experience with it. At the moment all we have is impressions from some people who saw unfinished work. It's not first hand knowledge.
As far as the resolution, it may not inform the narrative, but it will provide a much much crisper image when displayed on a large screen. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. I think it'd be silly for home viewing, but for theater 4k seems to make sense.
It's the 48fps that's the real kicker. From what I know of Jackson he wouldn't be trying this out without a reason. I'm not saying it'll be worth it, but I'm not going to outright pass judgement against it either, at least not until I get to see a whole movie presented with it.
It's better written and more coherently plotted than parts of the trilogy. One of the benefits of being shorter and not the culmination of 30 years of world building in Tolkien's head.
It's ok, you are allowed to be right some times.
Tolkien does have some clumsy prose though, which makes sense given who and what he was but the books suffer for it.
The LotR movies aren't better than the books, though.
The Children of Hurin I'd like to see but then again I'm very content with the book.
But then The Hobbit is the one I read as a kid. I tried to read LotR, but just couldn't get into it until I tried again recently.
Holy shit. A Fantasia-like conceptual animation of that segment of the Silmarillion would be amazing.
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There are some pretty significant implications for narrative possibilities either way. I vote the latter.
What I'm worried about the most is that part 1 is the meat of the book and part 2 is a two hour long version of the battle of five armies...which takes about five pages in the book.
No worries, man. They're tossing all kinds of apocryphal shit into the film. There's whole sections with Galadriel and the White Council and the Loosing of the Nine and the Necromancer and all other manners of stuff.
It's basically Hobbit+.
IIRC, Warners/New Line/Saul Zaentz have the rights to LOTR and The Hobbit, but not any of the other Tolkien books, and because Christopher Tolkien is a curmudgeonly old bastard, we'll probably never see anything ever come of the Silmarillion.
The inclusion of "As told by Aragorn" style bookends would give the implication that they were folklore, in contrast to being the history of Middle-earth. The flashback to the Siege of Barad-dûr during FOTR doesn't suffer from that; as the narrator, Elrond, is specifically saying "I was there, here's what happened."
I agree. I'm assuming they'll do the same for The Hobbit, I'd be happy with extra battle scenes thrown in for good measure (hopefully the white council in Mirkwood). As long it's tasteful, although I'd love another cheesy shield slide moment!
The Hobbit is more then enough book for 2 movies. There's a full movies worth of story just getting to Laketown. And I'm betting that's where the break will be. The whole kurfuffle with the mountain and the dragon and the siege and the battle will be movie 2 and that's more then enough material.
I think in terms of pacing ending the first movie at Beorns house would work better. You get the escape from the goblins and the stuff from the chapter "Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire" as the climax of the first movie with chillin' at Beorns house as the resolution.
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In the book, the Silmarillion itself is presented as the vaugely remembered stories passed down to the elves in Aman and remembered by the exiles in middle earth.
Now they are better than real-world oral traditions (which do not retain any historical accuracy for any signifigant period of time) in that there are a few individuals still alive who have a living memory of the events of the first age (though a very few indeed).
But on the other hand, elves in middle earth are not D&D elves: they are not just humans with pointy ears. They view the world differerently and the line between myth and history is not a stark one in their tales. Galadriel, for example, is at least something on the order of nine thousand years old. Probably a lot more. That's going to be a very different worldview than that of a hobbit (which is the stand-in for a modern audience).
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some bits you'd kind of have to do that way. It's a real hodgepodge of different materiel. Some stories are very present, action filled narratives (like The Hobbit) and some are remote and vauge (esp anything related to the "gods" and their actions).
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It might work as a sort of mini-series
You can't tell me that the Narn i Chîn Húrin wouldn't make for a fucking epic film (or pair of films) though.
Yeah, that would work really well. There's a lot of stuff that happens in The Hobbit, to do it justice it would have to be really long anyway. Better to add a little bit and make it 2 movies.
I'm trying to stay away from too many spoilers, but it seems that Jackson is working hard to not only get in all the goodness from source material, but also throw in both a good bit about the goings on in Middle Earth around the same time (the White Council, et al) and events that would tie the Hobbit films to the greater LOTR story (the Loosing of the Nine).
Dipping out of the flow for a bit could work I guess
That could be interesting if handled well. Unfortunatly some of the changes from the source materiel in the LOTR movies were really against the grain of the books so I hope they handle it delicately.
It's easy to miss that there is a lot of time between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. In the appendices for The Return of the King there is some info / timelines about the period.
Theoden, the old king of Rohan in LOTR is born 6 years after the end of The Hobbit.
Sauron return to Mordor and begins rebuilding the dark tower about 10 years after the end of the Hobbit.
Aragorn (who is 10 years old at the start of The Hobbit and about 87 years old at the start of LOTR) wanders around going on adventures under a couple different assumed names. First as a Rider of Rohan then in Minas Tirith where he became a famous captain in their wars and eventually led a raid on the corsairs of Umbar (this was when Denethor was a young man and they were something of rivals for fame, which is part of why Denethor is so bitter about the coming of Aragorn to the city in LOTR).
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He's of the numanor bloodline (or was it because he was a dudendine ranger? Apologies for the botched spelling)
They explained it in the Two Towers extended edition IIRC, that he's like 80 by the time the movie is taking place.
Yeah, the numenor are half-elvish, they live for a looooooong time.
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