The Hobbit
After The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson made another J. R. R Tolkien’ s novel: The Hobbit. This heroic fantasy movie was released the 12 th of December 2012.
It’ s a good idea to adapt a Tolkien’ s novel because he was a great author making works for young and old people, full of humor and seriousness. Among others, The Hobbit is an interesting story and we can tell P. Jackson kept the different dimensions of the novel in his film like Bilbo, who is surely the most complicated character. The actor plays well and he is true to the original. Gollum too is well interpreted and the viewers can really fell his loneliness, his sadness and that he is truly pitiful. Even if he doesn’ t appear for a long time, he is well-developped. The images and the effects made by computer are good and well integrated in the movie. The landscapes are beautiful; it was a very good idea to shoot it in New-Zealand.
However, there are some flaws. First, we ask how and why they made three movies, as long as The Lord of the Rings, although the book is shorter than The Lords of the Rings ones. It’ s obvious they made a big part of filling. Even if The Hobbit is a story for all ages, they lost, in the movie the childish aspect. The movie steps aside from the original: Frodo and Sarouman who aren’ t in the book are well-embedded. However all the story around the pale orc is over the top, and the one with the brown wizard is totally ridiculous. The parts of the scenario they added are predictable and low. At the beginning, we’ re sure the pale orc isn’ t dead. They didn’ t respect the fact that the wolves aren’ t“ some bad mount” and aren’ t submissive. They are an autonomous herd and they can speak with Gandalf etc … We can see here that it is not just an action / adventure story. Everybody knows a dwarf is little and, in a good story, a king is representative of his people. So why is the king of the dwarves so big? He’ s as tall as the humans( in Tolkien’ s story, humans, dwarves, hobbits … are different“ races”). It is true that The Lords of the Rings is a good movie. The scenario of The Hobbit is great too but, the producer bet on the popularity they made with The Lord of the Rings and took the risk of changing the original story. It is sure they repaid the mountain of money they spent but if they had stayed closer to Tolkien’ s story and Tolkien’ s spirit it would have been a lot better.