First Hobbit Trailer (with SPOILERS)
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I saw the trailer in 3d too (and enjoyed Tintin, for what that's worth). It is really remarkable how much information that third dimension adds. I'd probably watched the trailer 20 times on my computer, but for a few of those scenes, the difference really was comparable to the change from black and white to color. It was especially noticeable in the wide shot of Rivendell (as mentioned) and the one of everybody resting in the cave.
The Hobbit Official TRAILER CATS Mash-up!
http://youtu.be/V2k_EiYh4IU
Is it just me, or do the cats actually look more "dwarven" than the real actors????
http://youtu.be/V2k_EiYh4IU
Is it just me, or do the cats actually look more "dwarven" than the real actors????
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the G-rated version of THE HOBBIT trailer is now available on Youtube courtesy of Regal Cinemas, featuring two or three shots not seen in the earlier teaser, such as Bilbo hiding, and Gandalf and company running through woodland...
http://youtu.be/XpdYKhv3EK0
http://youtu.be/XpdYKhv3EK0
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Wow, I had seen most of that before, but now there's more context. I'm excited, too!
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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That shot of Bilbo hiding...anyone else spot the spider moving in the foreground? It's a blink and you'll miss it moment, but it made me go back and look at the EW scroll in my sig (the original, on the link, that is!) If you hold the magnifier over the shot of Bilbo holding Sting among the webs, I'm sure there is the back end of a pale greyish spider sticking up from some debris between Bilbo and the left-hand tree!
ETA: for those who can't freeze the video, here are screencaps of the new scenes, courtesy of DarkJackal who posts on TORn and has his own website. You can clearly see the spider's body in these caps.
ETA: for those who can't freeze the video, here are screencaps of the new scenes, courtesy of DarkJackal who posts on TORn and has his own website. You can clearly see the spider's body in these caps.
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psst how do you know?
I have to say that after seeing the smokeless trailer (aka revised or 2nd trailer) it finally hit me that this is not The Hobbit. It's not because there are additional story lines and locations, that kind of stuff is easy enough to separate out from the original story. Instead it was the dialogue between Gandalf and Bilbo and Gandalf and Thorin at Bag End... the beginning of The Hobbit is charming and light-hearted... what we see in the trailer is something else entirely.
I have to say that after seeing the smokeless trailer (aka revised or 2nd trailer) it finally hit me that this is not The Hobbit. It's not because there are additional story lines and locations, that kind of stuff is easy enough to separate out from the original story. Instead it was the dialogue between Gandalf and Bilbo and Gandalf and Thorin at Bag End... the beginning of The Hobbit is charming and light-hearted... what we see in the trailer is something else entirely.
Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Thanks, Elen! Exciting!
Pssst, DarkJackal is a woman.
Really???? Ah, I should have checked her profile!
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Quite so, SirD. That snippet of dialogue between Thorin and Gandalf is from a darker and deeper story.
But I don't actually mind that! That lighthearted children's story was it and bit when I first read it, but I don't know that it would have captured me at all had I read it first as an adult. If the backbone of the story remains, with additional flesh, and editorial chiaroscuro, and a darker tone is overlaid so that it comes into its own as a deeper tale - in the way that Tolkien himself overlays it in the prelude to the LoTR - then I will not complain.
But I don't actually mind that! That lighthearted children's story was it and bit when I first read it, but I don't know that it would have captured me at all had I read it first as an adult. If the backbone of the story remains, with additional flesh, and editorial chiaroscuro, and a darker tone is overlaid so that it comes into its own as a deeper tale - in the way that Tolkien himself overlays it in the prelude to the LoTR - then I will not complain.
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I know because she said so.
But from the descriptions of the extended material shown at Comic-con, it sounds the beginning will still be pretty lighthearted. Still, overall I agree that we are going to get something different than a straight adaptation of The Hobbit. I am resigned to that, and even okay with it, and I think the decision to make it three films has the potential to make what they are doing better.the beginning of The Hobbit is charming and light-hearted... what we see in the trailer is something else entirely.
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The plate rolling looked pretty charming and light-hearted to me.SirDennis wrote:psst how do you know?
I have to say that after seeing the smokeless trailer (aka revised or 2nd trailer) it finally hit me that this is not The Hobbit. It's not because there are additional story lines and locations, that kind of stuff is easy enough to separate out from the original story. Instead it was the dialogue between Gandalf and Bilbo and Gandalf and Thorin at Bag End... the beginning of The Hobbit is charming and light-hearted... what we see in the trailer is something else entirely.