"But in dreams I can hear your name, and in dreams we will meet again."

[nausicaa83]

I just came back from watching the final Hobbit movie. I feel the same way as I did with the other two movies: I think they took everything that was great about the book and made it better. All my favourite scenes were there, and they hit me even harder than I thought possible. I cried and sobbed a lot more than I did with Return of the King. I loved every minute of it, and I'm so grateful to Peter Jackson for taking one of my favourite childhood books, a book that shaped my imagination and sense of adventure as a child, and sewing it together with the Silmarillion, the Lord of the Rings appendices, all the Tolkien masterpieces I read and loved as a young adult. Then he took characters who weren't more than a name in the original book, and gave them voices, and backgrounds and a soul. He made me fall in love with the characters I already loved since I was a child, Thorin, Bilbo and Gandalf, and then made me fall for his version of the other characters. He took the dwarves' passion for the gold, and wrote an epic poem of longing for a lost home that brings to mind Verdi's Va' Pensiero. And then he gave us Thorin and Bilbo's relationship. I sincerely have no words for how grateful I am to him, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens for giving us these characters and these movies.

And now I can't wait for the extended edition, so I can cry even longer. ^^

Comments

[fioredelmale.livejournal.com]

Visto ieri, piaciuto :) Ma su alcue cose sono rimasta insoddisfatta... quindi un po' ci sono rimasta male, conto sull'EE perchè siano rimediate!

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Io ho amato ogni minuto alla follia, ma è ovvio che molte cose sono state tagliate (mica potevano fare un film di sei ore). Sicuramente hanno tagliato il funerale di Thorin e dei nipoti, l'incoronazione di Dain, e molte scene a Erebor. Muoio dalla voglia di vedere la versione più lunga, ma aiuto, sarà devastante.

Poi penso ci saranno più scene di battaglia, come le donne di Dale che combattono gli orchi. Le vediamo armarsi e tutto, ma vorrei una scena in cui le vediamo in azione. Diciamo che la versione cinematografica ha tutte le parti fondamentali, ma ora è arrivato il momento di infiorettare di dettagli.

Ho amato anche tutti i cambiamenti rispetto al testo, soprattutto il duello finale di Thorin, e la scena della sua morte tra le braccia di Bilbo. Già la versione originale mi uccideva, ma questa è stata molto più intima nella sua immediatezza e quindi molto più straziante.

[fioredelmale.livejournal.com]

Ti riporto un commento che ho scritto altrove:

YES
Badass Galadriel.
Bilbo. Great job Martin!
Smaug attacking Lake Town and being shot to death by Bard.
Bard. Man is all business, reminds me of Eomer from LOTR.
Lee Pace's facial expressions. ROFL.

NOPE
Kili/Tauriel. They pushed it too far and I didn't like AT ALL that Kili died defending her.
Kili and Fili (especially poor Fili) death's were a bit underwhelming. In the book they die defending Thorin FFS!
The end of the movie was rushed and didn't really tie up all the lose ends. The pace was fast enough, but sometimes things felt too rushed.
Speaking of which, I expected a funeral or something for Thorin, Kili and Fili, and seeing Dain be crowned.
Too much CGI, especially on Dain...
How the hell did Legolas and Tauriel go to and from Gundabad in such a short time?!
Too little Beorn :(((
Too much Alfrid.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Io ho amato tutto tutto da morire, ma allo stesso tempo voglio l'extended edition ora!!!