RoChe Montoya's Blog - Posts Tagged "dragons"
Tolkien vs. Jackson
I am just curious how others feel about the Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit movies vs. the books. Do many people out there feel as the Tolkien family does, they hate the movies by the way. I think the movies and book are both good, but then I am originally a visual story person. Movies, shows and comic books were what I grew up on. When I was motivated to read Tolkien I was maybe 13 years old, and I started with the Hobbit. I will admit, I did see the animated movie first, but like I said, visual first, and in the early 80s, what kid wants to read a book when they could be out skateboarding or playing ball in the park. My family kept telling me to go outside and play, at least I wasn't raised by the TV like Jim Carry in the Cable Guy or Seth McFarlain, then again, look at that guy, total success.
Back to what I was talking about. I have read books before movies and have read them because of movies, and even though they are the same story, you can't tell them the same way.
Example- The Tom Bombadil scene would never work in the movie, it is too long and too drab(for me that is, maybe some others) but there is a lot of need to know kind of things there. If you put that chapter into a movie it would drop the pace to a slow crawl and viewers would most likely leave. You have to remember that most people are going to wait for the movie, it is chapters like "In the House of Tom Bombadil" that make some people stop or not want to read. I have to admit that I would skip that chapter when I would read the book again.(Now that the movies are out, I can just watch them.)
Film makers have to take things like that into order when making this movie that they want the whole world to see, unfortunately we have gotten to a point in time where sex sells movies and there is more naked people selling movies than there was 20 years ago. People go to movies to be brainless and entertained, if it gets to a point where the entertaining parts are over and enjoyment is lost no one will watch it.
Peter Jackson know this and set out to make the movies as close to the books as he possibly could. The Tolkien family did not like what he had done, but he did it for the viewing public not the billions who have already read the classic epic.
I love the book, and I love the whole Middle Earth world and want more and more, but when i found out that Tolkien only wanted to publish the books in only elvish, it made me wonder, just who did he really want to read a book in a language he created and nobody else would know, he obviously didn't write these books for the money, he was already a successful teacher in a nice college. Who did he write them for, are the Tolkien family the only ones who were to enjoy this story, is that why they are upset at the movies, because now not just readers can enjoy it but the whole world? Just makes me think is all.
Back to what I was talking about. I have read books before movies and have read them because of movies, and even though they are the same story, you can't tell them the same way.
Example- The Tom Bombadil scene would never work in the movie, it is too long and too drab(for me that is, maybe some others) but there is a lot of need to know kind of things there. If you put that chapter into a movie it would drop the pace to a slow crawl and viewers would most likely leave. You have to remember that most people are going to wait for the movie, it is chapters like "In the House of Tom Bombadil" that make some people stop or not want to read. I have to admit that I would skip that chapter when I would read the book again.(Now that the movies are out, I can just watch them.)
Film makers have to take things like that into order when making this movie that they want the whole world to see, unfortunately we have gotten to a point in time where sex sells movies and there is more naked people selling movies than there was 20 years ago. People go to movies to be brainless and entertained, if it gets to a point where the entertaining parts are over and enjoyment is lost no one will watch it.
Peter Jackson know this and set out to make the movies as close to the books as he possibly could. The Tolkien family did not like what he had done, but he did it for the viewing public not the billions who have already read the classic epic.
I love the book, and I love the whole Middle Earth world and want more and more, but when i found out that Tolkien only wanted to publish the books in only elvish, it made me wonder, just who did he really want to read a book in a language he created and nobody else would know, he obviously didn't write these books for the money, he was already a successful teacher in a nice college. Who did he write them for, are the Tolkien family the only ones who were to enjoy this story, is that why they are upset at the movies, because now not just readers can enjoy it but the whole world? Just makes me think is all.
