Hobbit Adaptations
Nov. 17th, 2014 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightofdayeHappy Monday everybody! I thought I'd share something I find pretty funny. (I may have done before) This musical came out around the time of the first Hobbit film and with the third one coming up...
Seems to me the Hobbit sort of has the opposite problem to a lot of adaptation in that instead of having to cut a lot out of a long book to make a film, they've added a lot to a short book to make it three extremely long films.
Then again people do complain about the changes and cuts they made to include their new plot lines, so they've done it wrong coming and going. I notice there seems to be as much legolas in the third film's trail as Bilbo, which is amazing considering the latter is the titular hobbit and the former never appeared in the book at all.
Incidentally, LotR films as well as Master & Commander are films I saw before reading the source material they were adapted from. And in those cases I do prefer the films to the books usually its vice versa for me.
Seems to me the Hobbit sort of has the opposite problem to a lot of adaptation in that instead of having to cut a lot out of a long book to make a film, they've added a lot to a short book to make it three extremely long films.
Then again people do complain about the changes and cuts they made to include their new plot lines, so they've done it wrong coming and going. I notice there seems to be as much legolas in the third film's trail as Bilbo, which is amazing considering the latter is the titular hobbit and the former never appeared in the book at all.
Incidentally, LotR films as well as Master & Commander are films I saw before reading the source material they were adapted from. And in those cases I do prefer the films to the books usually its vice versa for me.
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Date: 2014-11-17 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-17 06:25 pm (UTC)The terrible thing is the movies aren't that great. But I'll go see them with the family anyway.
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Date: 2014-11-17 11:21 pm (UTC)