The Hobbit or The Tardis?
If The Hobbit is such a short book, how come it is being made into three full-length feature films?
Mark Kermode has a bit of a nerdy joke about this on the BBC News Website but I think it's still a valid question.
Tolkein fans will point at the additional material from appendices that director Peter Jackson is using but it is still tempting to think he is trying to draw a parallel with the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which is adapted from a massively longer series of books. Exploitation? The Weinsteins certainly think so since they've been cut out of the profits from the second two instalments of The Hobbit.
Perhaps this is just an interesting development in adaptation in which a minute of screen-time no longer roughly corresponds to a page of text or perhaps we have found a new cultural Tardis-style phenomenon- the book that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Mark Kermode has a bit of a nerdy joke about this on the BBC News Website but I think it's still a valid question.
Tolkein fans will point at the additional material from appendices that director Peter Jackson is using but it is still tempting to think he is trying to draw a parallel with the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which is adapted from a massively longer series of books. Exploitation? The Weinsteins certainly think so since they've been cut out of the profits from the second two instalments of The Hobbit.
Perhaps this is just an interesting development in adaptation in which a minute of screen-time no longer roughly corresponds to a page of text or perhaps we have found a new cultural Tardis-style phenomenon- the book that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
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