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[dragonlady7]

My first thought upon hearing that Peter Jackson is making the movie adaptation of The Hobbit, apparently as a set of two movies, was that he's just going to film the entire thing in slow-mo.
I mean, half the trilogy was in slow-mo. He might as well go the whole hog.
I then decided that when my life flashes before my eyes, I'll be sure to edit in a couple slow-mo-nos just to spice things up. In fact, I'll see if I can help edit the roller derby league's highlight reels, and add in some slow-mo nos.
And then the video will end with, "The eagles! The eagles are coming!"
It'll be great.

The conversation kind of went downhill from there. We'll just say that I think I'm hilarious, and leave it at that.
But seriously, how would you split the Hobbit in half? Where would you put the stopping point? It kind of goes from silly to serious back to silly, which is interesting and instructive, but...
Eh, well, I won't worry about it. But I reserve the right to make ill-informed cracks later.

In other news, I still have no idea what the hell it is that I do here. I've spent a couple hours manning the phones this week, so I don't feel useless, but I'm still confused about the rest.

Our latest ad campaign involves pandas. Yes, pandas. What? I don't know.

In other news, my knee is still stiff and kinda blecky but at least it's not painful. We'll see if I want to skate tonight. I sort of don't really want to. I can't bend it. I might as well have a meeting instead. Or something. Feh.

In other news, it is nearly five. Please let it be five. Why am I so tired when it's only Tuesday?
I need a day off sitting at home. I have no days left. What to do? I don't know what to do. Be lazy and useless. That's my default. Hurrah.

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I agree: how do you make two movies of the Hobbit? I had heard the two-part thing as a rumor, but haven't read the articles. I thought maybe it was the Hobbit and a sequel which filled the gap between the Hobbit and LOTR (some kind of PJ fanfic story).

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY know where I'd split it in half. Ever since I first read it, I thought it was really two books:
Book I: Bilbo gets suckered into being a thief, but sucks at it and the whole party gets caught and dragged off...but luckily in the very end, he gets the invisibility ring and gets away
Book II: Bilbo & the dragon. In part II, Bilbo dramatically improves his thievery, in an amazing testiment to the power of invisibility to make people actually smarter. I mean, I get the confidence thing, really I do, I think you could argue that over the course of the elven-jail situation, he got so used to sneaking around and figuring out stuff himself that he somehow became confident even when not invisible. But how did he get so much smarter, I ask you? Anyway...book II would start with them in the woods, chased by the wolves, rescued by eagles, etc. etc., and end with the dramatic death of Thorin and the triumphal return to the house auction. My god, is his name really Thorin? I haven't read the Hobbit in decades. If it's really Thorin, I'm giving myself a big pat on the back. Did I ever tell you I translated all the runes on my special 50th anniversary hardback copy of the Hobbit, sometime in seventh grade?

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

P.S. -- Pandas?
First thought: Cool!
Second thought: Pandas???

I was so excited by the Hobbit news that I didn't even read the rest of your post before responding to that bit.