The Hobbit photo still
Over at Tor.n they have a new photo of Bilbo Baggins from the new Hobbit movie:
As with all great fannish movies, it's about time to let the nitpicking begin. I really like Bilbo's outfit, and the dwarf in the background (Bofur, according to TORN's blurb at Facebook) is much less Disneyish than the dwarves we saw in Lord of the Rings. Which is all to the good. They may make me buy Richard Armitage as Thorin yet.
What doesn't work for me is Bilbo's physique. He's entirely too thin for the comfortable, pipe-smoking gentlehobbit who good-morning'd Gandalf. Granted this looks to be set later in the movie (Rivendell?) so perhaps he's just a bit road-wearied. Also the reddish hair color just doesn't work for me, for some reason. I'm not even sure we're told his color in the book! But to my mind Bilbo is the quintessential every-hobbit, and that means brown hair. So I think this may take some getting used to.
May those be the worst criticisms I have! Because if that's the only thing that bothers me about an adaptatiion about my fave book, that will be pretty lucky.
As with all great fannish movies, it's about time to let the nitpicking begin. I really like Bilbo's outfit, and the dwarf in the background (Bofur, according to TORN's blurb at Facebook) is much less Disneyish than the dwarves we saw in Lord of the Rings. Which is all to the good. They may make me buy Richard Armitage as Thorin yet.
What doesn't work for me is Bilbo's physique. He's entirely too thin for the comfortable, pipe-smoking gentlehobbit who good-morning'd Gandalf. Granted this looks to be set later in the movie (Rivendell?) so perhaps he's just a bit road-wearied. Also the reddish hair color just doesn't work for me, for some reason. I'm not even sure we're told his color in the book! But to my mind Bilbo is the quintessential every-hobbit, and that means brown hair. So I think this may take some getting used to.
May those be the worst criticisms I have! Because if that's the only thing that bothers me about an adaptatiion about my fave book, that will be pretty lucky.