In fact, I prefer to call and evaluate this film by this name. I still remember the moment Bilbo Baggins closed the book at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings.
Yes, we go and return.
Ten years later, we still have the opportunity to return to Middle-earth with a fresh perspective. For a finger fan, there is nothing more exciting in the world than this.
Ten years ago, The Lord of the Rings defined the word "movie" in my life, and movies have been an integral part of my life ever since. In the past winter vacation, facing the "stock" of movies that had not been updated for a long time, I was like a baby, watching those unrelated movies one after another with my mother at home. I know, this is another "go and come back" story.
Life is not just a series of adventure stories that return to the original point. What matters is not the treasure we bring back, but the respect and the legend of the experience we gain.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I heard Song of the Lonely Mountain on the radio for the first time in the car on my way home. I felt a low rhythm like an African tribe. But when I heard words like "Misty Mountains" and "Gold", I knew it was a song for dwarves. In the original, the dwarves didn't put away their instruments until after they set out on the journey. In the film, this is indeed the song the dwarves sing at Bilbo's house before they set off. And this melody has also become the dwarf theme in the entire film soundtrack.
I don't know how many people, like me, don't want to get up for a long time after the lights are turned on, just want to finish listening to this song.
Just like the three theme songs of "Lord of the Rings", it seems that there is nothing special about it, but when the melody gradually sounds at the climax of the ending, it begins to soak through every one of our auditory nerves.
Closer to home.
It has been a few days since the film was released, and I heard various positive or negative comments from my classmates before watching the film. After reading the original novel, it is indeed not a magnificent masterpiece like "The Lord of the Rings". Can't help but worry about the effect of the video.
However, when the familiar hobbit theme sounded in the stereo, the 3D version of the new line logo appeared, and then to the familiar font, I was beyond excited!
I was looking forward to a brand new movie, but after watching the movie, I found that this movie carries too many memories for us, and Peter Jackson did not disappoint us.
The first is the soundtrack of the entire film. I don't know much about music, but I do know what story a film is telling just from the soundtrack. The melodious country tunes of the Hobbit theme, the brilliance of the Rivendell theme, and the mystery of the Lord of the Rings theme, it is hard not to evoke our "Lord of the Rings"-like associations and fantasies.
The most prominent part of the film is the addition of the aforementioned dwarf music theme, and the film's final fusion of the Hobbit theme and the dwarf theme soundtrack also symbolizes Bilbo's respect for Thorin.
When the title of "An Unexpected Journey" appeared, the smoke ring that Bilbo spit out resembled the Lord of the Rings, and it reminded us of the smoke ring spit out by Frodo when Gandalf spit out a ship in "The Lord of the Rings" scene. You know, because of this "smoking shot", the filmmakers were worried that it would affect the rating. However, the "old stubborn" people in the office still felt the childishness in it, so we finally saw this scene in the film.
If there is anything else in the film that we feel a little "not used to", it is probably that some parts are really "too similar". After Bilbo fell, the Lord of the Rings magically fell on Bilbo's finger, does it remind people of Frodo in the Prancing Horse Tavern? In a bright background, Gandalf said to Bilbo, "It is not when to kill, but when to forgive," as he did to Frodo 60 years later when he was sitting at the gate of Moria's den. Became the foreshadowing of the whole story.
As a group movie, the 13 dwarves, except for Thorin Oakenshield, the king of the mountain, Bahrain who has fought side by side for many years, the youngest and cutest brother Philippe, and the fattest Bomber, it is difficult for us to distinguish Which one is Groin (could it be Gimli's father) and which one is Duvalin. However, this is also impossible. I didn't figure it out when I read the book.
Peter Jackson has altered and expanded the hundreds of pages of the original booklet.
Although I don't understand why the two races of the wolf and the giant eagle have become pure "transportation" in the film. In "Battle of the Five Armies", the Warg can be regarded as one of the armies. And the Eagle King is not just a call, but a "ruthless character" who hates evil and hates it. The giant eagle also led the expedition to the forest for a while.
I think the most successful adaptation of the film is to intersperse Bilbo and Gollum's "guessing game" with Gandalf and the dwarf breaking out of the orc's cave, avoiding the monotony and procrastination of the narrative. In the process of watching the film, I found an obvious camera switching problem. I don’t know if it was abridged during the screening or what happened.
I don't know if Thorin would have been more tragic when he rushed to the orc leader if he hadn't read the original book before.
And Saruman and Queen Galadriel because of the appearance of the necromancer, make the whole plot fuller, and it is more closely connected with the story of "Lord of the Rings" later. It is said to be in the appendix to The Lord of the Rings. (Although I don't know what Angmar Witch King has to do with the Necromancer.)
When the grand soundtrack played and the "National Geographic of New Zealand"-like long shot appeared, I seemed to feel every pore in my body tightening, blood in the Boiling in the body.
Inheritance is the best innovation. I really can't imagine what an "unconventional" "The Hobbit" would have been like if Peter the Great hadn't taken over the guide.
Yes, we go and return.
I began to look forward to, ten years from now, will there be three more "Silmarillion" films that can continue our attachment to Middle-earth.
This sentence of "Watching the Movie" in the 2013 Film Outlook actually expresses the aspirations of every fan: "We just want to stay in Middle-earth for a while longer."
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