It’s hard to imagine that in the next Christmas we will not have to expect a new film from the seemingly endless film version of Peter Jackson about Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, of Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman, the dragon Smaug and Thorin Oakenshield, about elves, dwarves and orcs.
The point of life Peter Jackson
To move a fictional world tolkinsky on the movie screen was needed not only an incredible enthusiasm inveterate tolkinistov such as Peter Jackson. Now few people remember that New Zealand director started out as a writer acute social dramas (the most memorable of his “Heavenly Creatures” with Kate Winslet in the title role – 1994).
Moreover, few people even remember, perhaps, that in between the two trilogies, Jackson made another and “King Kong” – another remake of another “eternal” Hollywood blockbuster.
No matter what is now being still in his prime 53-year-old director, his name will be permanently associated with it in the film world Tolkien’s epic.
On the one hand, there is something to be proud. The first trilogy “The Lord of the Rings” in general (more than impressive!) Cost 280 million around the world gathered dolllarov absolutely fantastic 3 billion. In 2003, the final film of the trilogy, “The Return of the King” has put unprecedented, either before or after the record received eleven “Oscars” for which he was nominated.
These films Jackson glorified not only himself, but also his native New Zealand. And not just because it is a small country can be proud of the worldwide fame of his son. Almost pristine, unspoiled by modern civilization natural beauty of this land has become an ideal platform for the set Tolkien Middle-earth. And since inevitably a place of pilgrimage and countless tolkinistov – fans now not only famous book, but it is even more famous screen incarnation.
The difficulties conflicts, litigation
In contrast to the “Lord of the Rings”, the production of which went relatively smoothly, the creation of “The Hobbit” was associated with weight problems. For a start it was necessary to unravel the complicated bureaucratic story of accessories the film rights to “The Hobbit”, which involved almost all the major Hollywood studios. It is this legal legal conflict and prevented at the time Jackson began shooting with his epic “The Hobbit.” As a result, the viewer is already familiar with the events of “The Lord of the Rings”, is back on six decades earlier.
In addition, in 2008, a protracted because of bureaucratic red tape break between the two trilogies, Tolkien’s heirs sued – no less than 220 million US dollars – the company New Line, producer of “The Lord of the Rings».
The lawsuit to block the start of work on the sets of “The Hobbit” ; as long as the parties have not reached a court settlement, the amount of which remains a mystery.
Jackson and del Toro
Despite the huge success of the first trilogy created by Jackson, put “The Hobbit” was invited by Guillermo del Toro.
It has long been working in America, Mexican writer, director and screenwriter known not only for its bizarre Hispanic horror fantasies (“The Devil’s Backbone”, “Pan’s Labyrinth”), and Hollywood blockbusters (“Blade 2″, “strain” “Pacific Rim»).
Del Toro began work on the script for “The Hobbit”, but prolonged bureaucratic delays and endlessly delay the start of filming forced him to withdraw from the project.
However, he listed co-wrote all filmed in the end, all the same Jackson trilogy, Jackson himself acknowledges that “creative DNA” del Toro has left its indelible mark on the drama, and the external appearance of the trilogy.
Critics tired
If the “Lord of the Rings” Tolkien – a huge three-volume epic, and the scope of the film adaptation of Jacksonian it was quite a match, then “The Hobbit” – a thin little book. Initially, it was planned two films, but Jackson entered into the taste and feel inexhaustible gold mine company Warner Bros managed to stretch it on a lasting more than eight hours trilogy.
Many devotees Tolkienists took this artificial uncomplicated plot canvas stretched painfully. “History is inflated due to not having any relation to the literary source material” – writes with irritation critic of the newspaper Daily Telegraph.
Jackson himself his final film extremely pleased. “This is my favorite of all the films of the trilogy. The most emotional, the most intense of the three ».
Critics, however, met the “Battle of Five Armies” very cool. Could not affect the effect of fatigue. For all the ingenuity of Jackson, with all the fascinating technical and imaginative power of the 3D image, it strongly novelty faded, and dramaturgical liquefaction previously seemed pardonable on the background of all-consuming entertainment, has become more and the more annoying.
«I am happy that next year I will not have to look at and review another film tolkiniany” – with relief, said film critic Mark Kermode Observer newspaper.
So all the same end?
Do not have it? After all, despite the fact that the main literary opus Tolkien’s already filmed, there is “The Silmarillion” – a book of myths, collected and published after his death by his son Christopher.
So far, however, the chances of it seems to be little. Tolkien’s heirs having the rights to the book, on-screen version of the Jackson speak without any respect: these films, in their opinion, “destroyed the beauty and power of philosophical” books.
However, something like we’ve already heard. There is no doubt that at all grumbling critics “Battle of Five Armies” will bring at least a grand cash than all the previous films of both trilogies. Will the principal relatives of the deceased writer to resist the temptation to get another hefty chunk of that fat Hollywood pie – the big question.
Will there be a new series of cinematic tolkiniany – if it does take place – Peter Jackson is involved, while it is impossible to judge.
Hevimetallichesky Saruman
And as an epilogue hard to resist not to mention and not specific to “The Hobbit”, but closely related story.
The performer of the evil wizard Saruman, 92-year-old patriarch of British cinema, Christopher Lee, released on the eve of Christmas single «Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing».
As the creators of the Tolkien films, Lee This is the third Christmas in a row pleases his fans with songs in the style of “heavy metal” – a musical genre, it would seem a little befitting a man such a venerable age.
In 2012, his Christmas single called «A Heavy Metal Christmas», in the past 2013 – «A Heavy Metal Christmas Too».
Alexander Kahn, a columnist for Culture BBC Russian Service
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