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New Theory Blames Bilbo for Bad Hobbit Movies
I just stumbled upon this little piece of -- I hardly know what to call it -- "explanation" as to why the Hobbit movies stank "like the Volga River at low tide," to quote Count Dracula in the movie Love at First Bite. From The Huffington Post:
"This Theory Perfectly Explains Why 'The Hobbit' Movies Were So Bad." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ef=mostpopular Yeah. Blame Bilbo.
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Huffpo makes semi-sense at times; they also put up stuff like this.
Is it really that hard to fathom that some people want Hollywood to at least show some respect for the source material they're adapting?
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What are we supposed to think? Are we to question Tolkien's storytelling or that of Bilbo's? Blame the writers, blame the others but not blame Bilbo!!
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I'm fairly sure if you think about this too hard you end up in a spiral staircase of logic.
At first I thought "You could see it that way - the exaggerated version of Bilbo in the films might dream up the events of the films." But then... film Bilbo is a character in film Bilbo's narrative (which he apparently dreamed up). Therefore the exaggerated Bilbo of the film's narrative dreams up the film's exaggerated narrative, because he is the exaggerated character of an exaggerated narrative. ![]()
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The article (and pro-Jackson fan theory) make absolutely no sense. Assume that Bilbo exaggerated his exploits in his book. Peter Jackson used little of the story in this book when making his ill-named movies.
So did Peter Jackson film what really happened (discounting Bilbo writings, who assumedly exaggerated his adventures), or did he exaggerate Bilbo's exaggerated account? Me head is spinning. ![]()
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Really what this fan theory achieves is to actually make the films' problems with tone and focus more apparent rather than offering a solution to them, in my view at least.
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The "Huffington Post" article ends thus:
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Pretty sure it's not serious.
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I'm reasonably certain the piece is tongue-in-cheek.
(And some Brits think Americans don't do irony....)
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Some humor is best delivered deadpan. And there were, after all, both funny lines and jabs at Jackson, the latter rather undermining the purported thesis.
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