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wizzardly
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May 30 2016, 4:03pm
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You asked how I felt about Bakshi's LotR. That was a scene I felt he did better than PJ.
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wizzardly
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May 30 2016, 4:06pm
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But it didn't make me nauseous like PJ's love story.
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Omnigeek
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May 30 2016, 4:58pm
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I wouldn't say the beards were most important
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I raise the issue of beardless dwarves continually because it really IS a pretty trivial point but also shows just how much people willing to rationalize and ignore in their defense of PJ's version of "The Hobbit". I DO find the Rankin/Bass production was far superior in terms of maintaining the storyline and feel even if it had to excise portions of the story in order to keep to the network-mandated time limit. Yes, the Rankin/Bass movie had its problems -- not the least of which were the ugly Elves and froGollum -- but the script kept or adapted the best lines and preserved the essence of the story while alluding to its context in a larger story at the end. The voice acting was superb. I didn't like how they started An Unexpected Party or finished the Battle of Five Armies but most of the rest of it was spot-on and they didn't add tons of unnecessary extra bits. There is a real skill in trimming a novel down to 77 minutes of screen time without losing essential parts of the story, more so anyway than expanding the same novel (plus assorted appendices) to 474 minutes of screen time. I think Romeo Muller did a far better job with his script than PJ/FW/PB/GDT did with theirs. On the other hand, the additional screen time did give Martin Freeman more time to flesh out Bilbo even if all the other additional plotlines detracted and distracted somewhat.
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wizzardly
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May 30 2016, 5:36pm
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I suppose in a way its good that PJ's dwarves look nothing like Tolkien's dwarves. It makes it easier to not associate this disaster with the book.
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wizzardly
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May 30 2016, 5:41pm
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The voice acting was very well done in the Rankin/Bass Hobbit. And I also appreciate the effort they made to incorporate Tolkien's poems and songs by creating music to go with his lyrics. Because like it or not,the elves do sing "A tra la la lally".
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May 30 2016, 5:58pm
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I'd have to go with the frog-like elves too...
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I'm not crazy about the frog-like elves - nor am I crazy about the R&B adaptation - but unlike the "love story" I am not overwhelmed by the irresistible urge to walk out the room or fast forward to the next scene when they appear on screen.
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dormouse
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May 30 2016, 6:35pm
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Ii've still to see a beardless dwarf....
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...and I've watched the films many times. Perhaps you could provide an example?
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood and every spring there is a different green. . .
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Omnigeek
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May 30 2016, 6:39pm
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Kili sports a five-o-clock shadow, NOT a beard. In the nearly beardless category, Fili and others have goatees or van Dykes, not a beard envisioned for Tolkienesque dwarves until PJ's version of these movies, and I don't recall any illustration before that had Thorin's locks drop lower than his beard. You can certainly say you prefer the artistic appeal in these renditions but to claim Kili had a beard ... really ...
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Otaku-sempai
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May 30 2016, 6:45pm
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Bombur might have the oddest 'beard' of all time. And then there is Kili's beard which is little more that five-o'clock shadow.
"He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows." -- Favorite proverb of the wizard Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, the "Gossiper of the Gods"
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wizzardly
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May 30 2016, 6:53pm
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"O! Where are you going...With beards all a-wagging?"
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I don't think you could get Kili, Fili, or even Thorin's beard to wag if you threw them outside in a category 5 hurricane. Even if said hurricane ripped Kili's head clean off his shoulders and it traveled through the air, I don't think that would even qualify as "wagging".
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Noria
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May 30 2016, 7:46pm
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I actually agree with Wizzardly
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that the Bakshi Flight to the Ford scene was quite good, at least as good as PJ’s. At least that’s what I remember; I haven’t seen that movie for decades but one thing thing I remember liking. I don’t suppose there is anything else we will ever agree on, especially the RB Hobbit, which IMO is a fine example of fidelity to the text producing nothing worth experiencing. As for the Dwarves’ beards, no rationalization is necessary on my part because I just don’t care about them.
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Noria
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May 30 2016, 9:05pm
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If PJ had planned to direct from the start,
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I believe that the Hobbit movies would be much the same, though they might have been structured a little differently if the three movie decision movie had been made in the beginning. The heavy-handed comedy relief, sight-gags and action sequences for their own sake of which you speak are in the movies because PJ likes that sort of stuff, just as he did when making LotR. That is who he is, at least in part. The Hobbit, being lighter and more comedic in itself in some ways and lacking the gravitas of LotR, lent itself to his predilections even more than LotR. I don’t agree with every choice PJ made in either trilogy but I accept that they were his to make because he and his partners were tasked with adapting the novels to the screen. Few people are going to like every one of their decisions. You expected more fidelity to the history and geography of Tolkien’s written world which is fair enough. But in LotR PJ played fast and loose with history, lineages, timelines and geography, so I was not shocked by any deviations from book canon in those areas. It seems like every book/movie fan has an individual and unique line of purism/fidelity (whatever you want to call it), that once crossed makes the movies unacceptable and unlikable to that person. My personal line was not crossed.
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dormouse
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May 30 2016, 9:41pm
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It's short, I grant you, but I don't believe that anyone looking at Aidan Turner (or any other man with the same arrangment of facial hair) would call him clean-shaven. If it weren't for the fact that he's playing a Tolkien dwarf and people have preconceived ideas of what a Tolkien dwarf should look like I don't believe we'd be having this conversation at all. This has nothing to do with Peter Jackson or the films. If I were to see a man who looked like that committing a crime and had to give a description I'd say he had a very short beard.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood and every spring there is a different green. . .
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dormouse
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May 30 2016, 9:47pm
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...that's a much better choice than Kili because as you've just said, Kili does have a beard. Technically Bombur has extremely long sideburns arranged into a sort of mock beard - but then, shouldn't we be giving him Brownie points because he could tuck them into his belt if he felt so inclined - and they do certainly wag!
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood and every spring there is a different green. . .
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wizzardly
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May 30 2016, 9:53pm
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I'm almost willing to give Bombur a pass on the fact that if you squint you can almost imagine he has a proper beard.
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
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May 30 2016, 9:54pm
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"Most importantly of all, the dwarves all have beards."
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, encapsulates why I stand where I stand on this adherence to the text business. Like what works for you, dislike what doesn't, but this is perfectly ridiculous.
"Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right... even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, 'No, YOU move.'" - Captain America: Civil War
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Otaku-sempai
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May 30 2016, 9:57pm
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It seems like every book/movie fan has an individual and unique line of purism/fidelity (whatever you want to call it), that once crossed makes the movies unacceptable and unlikable to that person. My personal line was not crossed. I would not say that I found the Hobbit films unacceptable; for one thing, I wouldn't have purchased the extended edition Blu-ray discs if I had. But I do admit to finding elements of them to be disappointing. I do find disconcerting such things as a moon that goes from a bit past new to full in a matter of hours (and moves to the north of the sky!).
"He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows." -- Favorite proverb of the wizard Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, the "Gossiper of the Gods"
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wizzardly
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May 30 2016, 10:05pm
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A dwarf without a beard is like a hobbit without hair on its feet...uncharacteristic
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Kilidoescartwheels
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May 30 2016, 11:17pm
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I wouldn't say they are important at all
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In fact, I really don't care about beard-length, and really don't get why that bugs some people so much. It's not "rationalizing," or mounting a "defense," I just simply like the movies much more than you apparently, and don't think the beard length is important.
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Kilidoescartwheels
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May 30 2016, 11:20pm
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I said before and I'll say it again
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I really don't care about the beard length, or whether Hobbits have enough hair on their feet. These details are, IMO, so trivial that they just don't matter.
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
Rohan
May 31 2016, 2:36am
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"Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right... even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, 'No, YOU move.'" - Captain America: Civil War
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Omnigeek
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May 31 2016, 2:55am
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Thorin has a short beard. Dori has a short beard. What Kili sports isn't a beard by any stretch of the imagination, much less a dwarven beard. It's more than a five-o-clock shadow for me but about what one of my Sicilian friends in college would have by 3 PM. It's amazing just how far some people are willing to distend definitions or the text in order to avoid conceding even the smallest deviation in these films.
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May 31 2016, 4:42am
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a disagreement about definitions and opinions. Don't take it into personal comment territory.
Silverlode Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known.
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
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May 31 2016, 5:04am
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I haven't and won't avoid admitting a deviation
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Many deviations from the text were made and one of them is definitely shorter beards. What is happening here is some people on these boards (including myself) do not care if there are deviations of this sort, as they are irrelevant to the plot and themes of both the novel and the film and their respective aims. It's hair or somewhat less hair. That's it.
"Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right... even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, 'No, YOU move.'" - Captain America: Civil War
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dormouse
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May 31 2016, 8:00am
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This will be my final comment on the subject of hirsute dwarves....
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Ever! When I look at Kili I see a short beard. I'd see the same beard if I hated the film - but I wouldn't be saying that it ruined the film for me. The dwarves all have beards and for me that's good enough. Your comments on my opinion are noted and rejected.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood and every spring there is a different green. . .
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