Second Hobbit Trailer [SPOILERS!!!!]

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Pearly Di wrote:I have a hunch and a hope that the lighter nature of The Hobbit, albeit with many dark elements, might just suit PJ's style better.
Ya think? :P

Unfortunately, PJ's style is very different from Tolkien's and I prefer the latter, but I will still watch these and enjoy them, I suspect. I just have to accept it as a different writer's take on the same history.
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axordil wrote:The thing about the Gollum scene in TH is that he's always hungry, but he's also always lonely. He hasn't seen someone like himself for centuries...and now, there Bilbo is, needing something from him. I think Sméagol *wanted* to be nice to him, within the context of still wanting to, you know, eat him. Gollum would simply resent him as a reminder of what he once was. And still want to eat him.
Yeah....but none of that should come off as cute. A hungry, lonely, killer shouldn't make you kinda giggle.
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Oh, I don't know. Pathos and bathos are only one letter away, and "psychopath" shares etymology with the former... :D

Seriously though, I know my snickering was at the incongruity of the character attempting "nice" and getting stuck at "creepy." The matter of factness of "we gets to eat Baggins" slides into "whole" in a way that balances "funny" with "scary detachment."
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yov, I have always found the Riddles in the Dark scene funny, even when I was a child. Maybe that says more about me than it, however.
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yovargas wrote:Yeah....but none of that should come off as cute. A hungry, lonely, killer shouldn't make you kinda giggle.
I dunno...I always found Gollum a little funny because of the way he talkses. ;)
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I guess it says something about you, too, kzer_za!
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Voronwë the Faithful wrote:yov, I have always found the Riddles in the Dark scene funny, even when I was a child. Maybe that says more about me than it, however.
It is funny! :)

And scary. 8) Gollum is hilarious in the Riddle scene, but he's also very scary, especially when Bilbo disappears and he's looking for him.

Ah, I'd forgotten how wonderfully atmospheric The Hobbit is. :) I'll have to read it again. :D

As for PJ v Tolkien, I am long, long over the days of comparing them. Of course Tolkien is superior, but I am looking forward immensely to immersing myself in Movie Middle-earth once more!
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Buncha weirdos. :P
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Clearly. :D

I first had The Hobbit read to me when I was eight, by my teacher. Her hissy 'Gollum' voice was pretty impressive, at least until I heard the superb performance by Peter Woodthorpe in the 1981 BBC radio LotR.

The voice of Woodthorpe's Gollum is the best Gollum-voice ever. Better even than Serkis (and Serkis is great). Also, Woodthorpe's Gollum is scarier.

But, anyway, the Riddle scene had us spellbound, and it was funny too.
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I liked the funny, adorable, sharp-toothed Gollum of the trailer. Of course he's nothing like the Gollum I imagined to myself when I was a kid, but hey, film characters never are.

And I also thought Riddles in the Dark was funny, too. Sorry, those of you who are more dignified Hobbit Readers!

(I was a dignified LOTR reader, but not so much the Hobbit.)
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Pearly Di wrote:Clearly. :D

I first had The Hobbit read to me when I was eight, by my teacher. Her hissy 'Gollum' voice was pretty impressive, at least until I heard the superb performance by Peter Woodthorpe in the 1981 BBC radio LotR.

The voice of Woodthorpe's Gollum is the best Gollum-voice ever. Better even than Serkis (and Serkis is great). Also, Woodthorpe's Gollum is scarier.

But, anyway, the Riddle scene had us spellbound, and it was funny too.
We listen to the 1981 BBC LotR when we're on road trips. Woodthorpe is indeed great in the role, and to my ear it appears as if Serkins was influenced by his portrayal - I detect similarities. Still, that could be due to the character, I have no idea if Serkis actually listened to Woodthorpe's portrayal or not.
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Over 200 screencaps from the trailer and alternate endings from the one and only DarkJackal:

http://thorinoakenshield.net/hobbit-tra ... p-gallery/
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I imagine Gollum will grow more menacing as the riddle game goes on and he gets into riddles like "darkness" and "time."
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waaimasjien from TORN has created a mashup of the two trailers, with Shore music filled in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPmNwWxv7yA&hd=1

Very nice mix of of the more epic tone of the first trailer and the more lighthearted tone of the second.
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Once again, we are shown that The Hobbit can be an excellent film, and Freeman will be a good Bilbo, which is not shocking in the least.

However we also see that it is going to be terrible for the same good old PJ reasons.
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Ah, very nice! The music makes such a difference. :)

I have something to complain about, though: the block of plastic "ice" (unless that's a plastic "diamond") at 3:40. I just hate blocks of plastic "diamond/ice." I really do. You should have seen me cringing through the NARNIA movie.

Now I've gotten that off my chest. Whew.
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Rivendell never struck me as all that cold, so I'm thinking crystal/glass. Diamond would be excessive. :D
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Definitely not ice.
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But horrible, right? Right? Like suddenly looking too closely at a really bad "Pirates Kapow Lego Adventure" toy or something, yes? aaaaargh!

:x

[Teremia rants on and on in a swiftly emptying room, and then remembers, too late, that in week 2 after chemo she's always a little crabby . . . . :oops: ]
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:hug: And yet here we all are, delighted to read your posts, crabby or not. It's not as if you haven't paid for the privilege.
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