Terrell
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Okay, I just didn't see a clear cut answer earlier, with studios ranging from Buena Vista to Paramount. Thanks.
I think Spielberg could make a damn good Hobbit film.
Oh my god, that would be so terrible. Gollum would be reduced to a lovable creature that's just misunderstood and flies in a basket on Bilbo's bicycle. And all the swords would be changed to flashlights to avoid controversy.
Well Eric, it really doesn't bother me you think the new Star Wars movies suck ass. Different strokes for different folks.
After the debate we had on new vs original Star Wars awhile back, I just couldn't resist one last cheap shot. Glad you didn't take it seriously. I was actually rather surprised at myself, but I really enjoyed Attack of the Clones and saw it three times in the theaters.
Gollum threw himself backwards, and grabbed as the hobbit flew over him, but too late: his hands snapped on thin air, and Bilbo, falling fair on his sturdy feet, sped off down the new tunnel. He did not turn to see what Gollum was doing. There was a hissing and cursing almost at his heels at first, then it stopped. All at once there came a blood-curdling shriek, filled with hatred and despair. Gollum was defeated. He dared go no further. He had lost: lost his prey, and lost, too, the only thing he had ever cared for, his precious. The cry brought Bilbo's heart to his mouth, but still he held on. Now faint as an echo, but menacing, the voice came from behind:
Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it for ever!"
As I said, while the book was written in a particular style that would appeal to children, there's more to it than saying it's just a children's book. I believe I read somewhere that Tolkien has said he had some regrets about how he wrote the Hobbit, particularly the way he directly stepped out of the story and addressed the reader.
So if you are making a film of The Hobbit BECAUSE of the success of the darker Lord of the Rings films, they don't have to change the story to make it any darker, but they should avoid blatantly trying to turn it into a kiddie-movie. Just tell the story that Tolkien told, and tell it in a way that doesn't make it seem that it doesn't belong in the same series of films as LOTR. It will be lighter by the nature of the story, but making it deliberately cartoony??!!? Please No!!
Peter Jackson merely adapted a work for the big screen. He did not invent middle earth. He was merely faithful to the source material in its interpretation.
True Richard, but how many directors would have or even could have stayed so true to the source material. There are lot's of great directors, but I can't think of anyone who could have captured the vision of Middle Earth I hold in my head as closely as Peter Jackson did.
Just imagine what we could possibly have ended up with if a director like Michael Bay had ended up in charge.
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