The Hobbit
#1352
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Re: The Hobbit
Over at AICN, an article written while filming said that the dwarves do ride ponies. They film on normal horses because they are supposed to be smaller and would look as a regular adult looks on a horse. If they used ponies, they'd be gigantic compared to the pony.
#1353
DVD Talk Legend
Re: The Hobbit
I imagine they use horses for the main actors, then ponies for their little people stand-ins.
#1354
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Re: The Hobbit
I'm all in favor of giving this the same look and feel of LOTR. As long as you have the same teams available, why not make the movies a unified whole. Save a new vision for a new generation (and yes, I know that a new generation would preclude certain talent from participating and that it'd be pretty tough to greenlight a new version when this highly regarded one is still available).
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Re: The Hobbit
I find it ironic that the lightest book of the four (in tone and scale; don't know about page length) is going with the two-movie trend. Kind of boggles the mind how long the trilogy could have been. I know stuff was left out, but I liked the scope and pacing of those and would have had a tough time with any more length.
EDIT: I'm talking about the EEs, of course.
EDIT: I'm talking about the EEs, of course.
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Re: The Hobbit
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#1365
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Re: The Hobbit
Absolutely. I think it's a given. Keeping it in the same universe was a great way to go. Changing it up this quick would have been akward. Kind of like when I watched the animated movie a few years ago, after being such a fanboy about the new trilogy. Those animated movies just ain't right.
#1366
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Re: The Hobbit
I have to agree that they aren't that great. I once thought they were, but that was more or less because they were all that existed if you wanted to see a visual presentation of a Tolkien story. The Hobbit was pretty faithful overall , but they changed ROTK to where it was unrecognizable. The animators chose to make Gollum some amphibian creature with no explanation for his appearance, and the dwarves looked like silly old men more than anything else.
#1367
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Re: The Hobbit
I have to agree that they aren't that great. I once thought they were, but that was more or less because they were all that existed if you wanted to see a visual presentation of a Tolkien story. The Hobbit was pretty faithful overall , but they changed ROTK to where it was unrecognizable. The animators chose to make Gollum some amphibian creature with no explanation for his appearance, and the dwarves looked like silly old men more than anything else.
#1369
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Re: The Hobbit
The Bakshi cartoon was quite a travesty in retrospect. It started out quite faithful, but then fell apart due to rotoscope overkill. I would have been interested to see how Bakshi would have finished the story. The Rankin-Bass version of ROTK, which was allegedly made to pick up where Bakshi's left, scrapped everything and omitted a lot of the characters.
#1370
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Re: The Hobbit
I've never even seen it but in the trivia section of imdb or maybe it was the faq...in any event, the studio made them change Saruman to Aruman because Saruman and Sauron were too similar. That decision was later reversed, but there are still a couple references to Aruman in the movie.
#1371
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Re: The Hobbit
I've never even seen it but in the trivia section of imdb or maybe it was the faq...in any event, the studio made them change Saruman to Aruman because Saruman and Sauron were too similar. That decision was later reversed, but there are still a couple references to Aruman in the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saruman#Adaptations
#1372
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Re: The Hobbit
This is in reference to Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated LOTR. Wikipedia has info on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saruman#Adaptations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saruman#Adaptations
#1373
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Re: The Hobbit
http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/f...bit-today.html
http://www.reelz.com/movie-news/1117...peter-jackson/
#1374
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Re: The Hobbit
I thought he was ten years younger, what a full life! Hopefully he sees the finished film(s). Gotta be nice to know you'll live on in such a significant series.
#1375
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Re: The Hobbit
Yeah it would be a shame if he didn't get a chance to see the final product. Apparently he's a huge Tolkien fan. He's the only cast member that actually met Tolkien and he reads The Lord of the Rings every year. Supposedly his lifelong dream was to play Gandalf but by the time the movie came along he was too old.