Gandalf and Bilbo Both as Heroes - Not Effective Special effects and fast-paced action are nice in terms of moviegoers, but it doesn’t always tell a story correctly. When directors are making a movie out of a book they make changes to the book to make the movie more exciting. Changes to the book can sometimes be effective if it makes viewers interpret the movie the same as the book, or the changes can not be effective if it makes you think of a part in the movie different from a part in the book. A book called The Hobbit is a book by J.R.R. Tolkien, and Peter Jackson, a director, produced a movie from this book called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The Hobbit is mainly a story about how a Hobbit, a short creature with a fat belly and
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During the journey, Bilbo and the group have to face many creatures such as trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and at the end Smaug, a ruthless dragon. The purpose of the adventure is to go to Dale and reclaim the dwarves’ treasure from Smaug. Throughout the adventure, Bilbo unlocks many character traits that he thought he never had such as bravery, leadership, and cleverness. In chapter two of The Hobbit, “Roast Mutton,” Bilbo confronts a band of hungry trolls while attempting to steal one of their wallets, and the dwarves get captured coming in search of Bilbo.. The chapter comes to a climax when the trolls are threatening to eat the dwarves while Bilbo hides helplessly nearby, and Gandalf rescues the bunch by outwitting the Trolls. Peter Jackson had to make changes to the movie, just like many other directors, who try and make the movie more interesting. Two differences in the movie that were not effective, compared to the book, were when Bilbo …show more content…
The novel says, “Then Bilbo understood. It was the wizard’s voice that had kept the trolls bickering and quarrelling, until the light came and made an end of them” (Tolkien 41). This shows you that Gandalf is clever to imitate the trolls voices and make them argue with each other. Tolkien’s intention is to add humor and make the trolls sound ignorant instead of just Gandalf defeating the trolls right away. This is to show that Gandalf is not as powerful as you think and he too needs to think his way out of things. He occupied the trolls long enough for the sun to turn them into stone. As Bilbo’s mentor, Gandalf is guiding Bilbo and showing him that he can use his cleverness and patience to get out of things instead of power because Bilbo is a little Hobbit. In the movie, Jackson has high key lighting on Gandalf and a low angle to make him look more powerful than everyone else in the group. Gandalf saves the group by striking a rock in half to allow light to shine on the trolls. This change is not effective because it shows that Gandalf is powerful and can defeat everything right away, even though in the book Tolkien wanted Gandalf to be not as powerful as the readers think. Also, Bilbo stalled the trolls which is supposed to be Gandalf’s role in the story, and it shows Bilbo already knows how to be clever, which defeats some of the purpose as Gandalf being
During the journey, Bilbo and the group have to face many creatures such as trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and at the end Smaug, a ruthless dragon. The purpose of the adventure is to go to Dale and reclaim the dwarves’ treasure from Smaug. Throughout the adventure, Bilbo unlocks many character traits that he thought he never had such as bravery, leadership, and cleverness. In chapter two of The Hobbit, “Roast Mutton,” Bilbo confronts a band of hungry trolls while attempting to steal one of their wallets, and the dwarves get captured coming in search of Bilbo.. The chapter comes to a climax when the trolls are threatening to eat the dwarves while Bilbo hides helplessly nearby, and Gandalf rescues the bunch by outwitting the Trolls. Peter Jackson had to make changes to the movie, just like many other directors, who try and make the movie more interesting. Two differences in the movie that were not effective, compared to the book, were when Bilbo …show more content…
The novel says, “Then Bilbo understood. It was the wizard’s voice that had kept the trolls bickering and quarrelling, until the light came and made an end of them” (Tolkien 41). This shows you that Gandalf is clever to imitate the trolls voices and make them argue with each other. Tolkien’s intention is to add humor and make the trolls sound ignorant instead of just Gandalf defeating the trolls right away. This is to show that Gandalf is not as powerful as you think and he too needs to think his way out of things. He occupied the trolls long enough for the sun to turn them into stone. As Bilbo’s mentor, Gandalf is guiding Bilbo and showing him that he can use his cleverness and patience to get out of things instead of power because Bilbo is a little Hobbit. In the movie, Jackson has high key lighting on Gandalf and a low angle to make him look more powerful than everyone else in the group. Gandalf saves the group by striking a rock in half to allow light to shine on the trolls. This change is not effective because it shows that Gandalf is powerful and can defeat everything right away, even though in the book Tolkien wanted Gandalf to be not as powerful as the readers think. Also, Bilbo stalled the trolls which is supposed to be Gandalf’s role in the story, and it shows Bilbo already knows how to be clever, which defeats some of the purpose as Gandalf being