Will The Hobbit end up "rotten"?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The project has been rotten from the start and has only become more so. The first rule of a good adaptation is to show respect for the spirit of the source material. It might actually be the only rule. This project, however...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

True, but The Hobbit tends to move from one event to the next at lightning speed.  In the book, many of the dwarves get no character development and barely speak, many events happen with very little dialog or elaboration on detail.  Events that would be big action set pieces in a film happen in about two pages in the book.

And in adding such padding you ruin the spirit of the thing utterly, turning it into yet another piece of derivative Fantasyland trash.

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Xahar gets it.

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That would be a LOT more than could ever be said about The Two Towers.

I maintain that Faramir should consider consulting his lawyers with the aim of suing Jackson for libel. The case is overwhelming.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Inability to edit, plus a belief that they can get away with anything and still end up with a commercial success.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The film is an editing disaster.

Worse than the Return of the King film for that?

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Literary purity is not even a concept.

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Everything is farmed

That's not what I think.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Rambling and incoherent this will be, the last post on the subject... it will not...

Anyway, the issue is a fairly standard one with the adaptation of anything; all adaptations will inevitably change many things. Scenes must be cut. Characters must be cut. Some scenes probably have to be added - the grammar of film - and television - is different to that of the novel - sometimes characters will pretty much have to be added as well. Many important plot details will change, at least a little bit. Most people understand this, at least up to a point.

The main issue is always whether the feel - I'm tired and can't think of a better word at the moment - of the source material is kept or at least respected. Because if it isn't, then it's questionable whether the finished product is even really an adaptation at all. And people are absolutely entitled to be annoyed when that kind of thing happens; the idea that there's anything wrong in being so is ludicrous.

Influences on the source material itself are irrelevant to this point.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Having taste is not being a snob.

That's just the sort of thing a snob would say, snob!