[ SECRET POST #4183 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4183 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Was it ever going to be a great film? The end of the book is depressing, and the adaption being made into a trilogy kind of forced the shittiest bits into one movie.

[(Anonymous)]

this question fundamentally boggles me

tragedy can be great film, anon

hell, the Rankin/Bass animated hobbit is thin on everything except 1) bilbo's character growth and 2) the heart-wrenching tragedy of Thorin learning to respect bilbo's priorities and regretting the horror of war, too late not to die of the war wounds he's earned, but not too late for a bittersweet reconciliation and forgiveness

and it fucking NAILED those two things, and I love it forever. the PJ version had the chance to really enrich that sequence with the arkenstone plot, which the R/B didn't have time for, but instead they botch it completely

otoh giving all the other shit they changed, if you really think it couldn't have been "a great film" with "a depressing ending" they could have changed that! let thorin learn his lesson and have a proper homecoming at last.

The trilogy structure 100% ruined it, yes, because of the hollow drama they had to gin up at arbitrary points in the runtime instead of following actual dramatic beats that were pretty solid in the 2 movie plan, but if you think the ending of the book was "the shittiest bits" just because some of it was *sad*, I don't know what to tell you

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[osidiano]

I loved the R/B animated version