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Published: 2013-04-23 04:56:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 5806; Favourites: 96; Downloads: 71
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Two more dwarves of thorin's company. done back in '07 I believe.While I liked the dwarves in the hobbit movie, I think Peter Jackson and Co. went a little too far in trying to establish them all as individuals. I would have been content with an approach closer to the book, where alot of the dwarves are just in the background, providing not so much rounded characters as a gallery of great dwarven faces, similar to how they did the company of vikings Antonio Banderas hooks up with in The 13th Warrior (a story which bears striking similarities to the hobbit in my mind)
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I like the soft sketchyness 
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I'm inclined to agree. I think it was as much a dramatic mistake as it was an artistic one to try and make each dwarf of the company into a 'main character' and thus having to distinguish them in visuals and personality as unique and recognisable. The risk is that the films lose focus and more important characters aren't done justice, getting lost amid the colourful characters demanding attention. Luckily a certain degree of dramatic natural selection has been shown in An Unexpected Journey where most of the elaborate biographies constructed by the actors and writers have been cut keeping the focus on the more important personalities, but that being the case Jackson has failed in his objective since it's never explained to us why Bifur has an axe in his head and only speaks Khuzdul, or that Nori is some kind of dodgy dealer, thus nullifying the point of distinguishing them in the first place.
So having the majority of the dwarves blend into a more generic background i do agree would have made more sense. I suppose you could draw comparisons to 300 too, since they were a limited group of fairly indistinguishable (although admittedly rather more photogenic) characters whereby only a handful were singled out for any kind of further characterisation. Thus it's by the strength of the actor rather than by wacky designs that the characters distinguish themselves.
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i sense jackson was trying to recast Thorin & Co as something closer to the fellowship, he's often expressed in interviews that the fact that there were so many dwarves and you couldn't tell them apart was one of the main reasons he was apprehensive to do the hobbit (not that the strategy of hyper-individualizing the dwarves even worked, I don't know any non-fan of the book who saw the movie and could tell you who was who) I think a perfectly viable (and obvious) answer might have been to do just one movie that told the story start to finish, and would have had to be tightly written enough that you wouldnt have (or need) time to "flesh out" all the dwarves. as much as I would have liked to see Ghan-buri-ghan in LOTR, it was smart film making not to include him, because they had a lot of story to tell.
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