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The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Hobbit:
In the two film version:
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Chen G.
Mithlond
Apr 5 2020, 11:38pm
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The first film would end with the sillhuette of Bard aiming his bow at the company. It IS a cliffhanger, but unlike the cliffhanger we got at the end of The Desolation of Smaug, its more of a stinger.
The cliffhanger of The Desolation of Smaug is a direct outcome of the climax of the movie: the company tries to slay Smaug and fail and there's your cliffhanger.
The cliffhanger of the original An Unexpected Journey, back when it was two films, was the company escaping Azog and the Silvan Elves in barrels. They succeed, and then the character of Bard, completely unrelated to this event, stumbles into them.
That's what I call a stinger, and in my mind it is inherently a less compelling form of a cliffhanger ending, because the film does have an ending and even a coda, and then you get a cliffhanger on-top of that. The Desolation of Smaug took the cliffhanger concept to the extreme, and I love that.
(This post was edited by Chen G. on Apr 5 2020, 11:43pm)
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(Mithlond) on Apr 5 2020, 11:40pm
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(Mithlond) on Apr 5 2020, 11:41pm
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(Mithlond) on Apr 5 2020, 11:42pm
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