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Originally Posted by Marwhini
I can do a scene-by-scene breakdown of a few chapters to give examples.
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Please don't. For the love of Eru, don't bother.
Word-for-word transcription from novel to movie is daft. I already gave examples of highly regarded movies like
Gone With the Wind (which you would like to drag out to 21 hours of film time) that did not require such treatment.
The run time of Jackson's
Hobbit Trilogy was a bloated 474 minutes for the theater version (7.9 hours). Cut out all the asininity, superfluity and douchery and you have two films that fairly approximate the book. In the hands of a serious director who doesn't dwell on crotch, fart and snot jokes, you could probably even gain more canonicity.
Sorry, you can produce flip and pie charts, 3D diagrams, citations, footnotes and a pair of Tom Shippey's used underwear, but you're just not going to convince me that the 19 chapters of
The Hobbit needs any more than two films to be a reverent and wonderful adaptation.