Chen G.
Mithlond
Apr 13 2019, 9:05pm
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I greatly admire del Toro as a film maker, but whatever he intended in regard to the story (which he was co-writing with Jackson, Walsh and Boyens), visually the movies would have been very different and maybe too outlandish for my taste.
This.
For all its differences, the core thing that ties The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is the production design aesthetic. The style of the design feels like Middle Earth.
Del Toro has a very well established style of design, and its much more...hightened than that. His concept art for Thranduil and especially for Smaug are horrible, to my eyes. I love that Peter Jackson landed on a design for Smaug that's really very simple and straightforward, but iconic and elegant.
As for making The Hobbit "bigger", well people seem to forget that its a bloody epic mascarading as a little adventure story. Its a journey that sees the characters cross a distance equivalent to that of continental Europe (from west to east), it has a backstory which goes back centuries and involves a big cast of characters.
In terms of culmination, too, even putting aside the impact it has upon The Lord of the Rings, its an epic quest that results in the re-instating of two nations (Dale and Erebor) and the decimating of another - that of the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
(This post was edited by Chen G. on Apr 13 2019, 9:10pm)
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