![]() ![]() ![]() *To simplify things, I divided the total word count for The Hobbit (95, 022)by three and used that count for each of the three Hobbit movies (31,674) The idea is that a movie like The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will have a small number of words per second of movie, since it’s only adapting part of a short book into a rather long movie. In other words, words per second of movie. Let’s see the numbers, or more specifically, my key metric for comparing movies: the number of word in the book divided by the number of seconds in the movie. Tolkein, so I can’t speak authoritatively to the density (or lack thereof) of plot in those books.Īll this is to say that word count is an imperfect proxy for the amount of plot-related content in a book that might need to get translated to a movie. Also, it’s been a while since I’ve read the various works of J.R.R. For book length, I chose to go with word count rather than page count, since there’s so much variability when it comes to the number of words that get squeezed onto a single book page.īefore I hit you with the graphs, I should mention the obvious caveat, which is that a long word count of a book does not necessarily translate to more story elements that need to be crammed into a movie. Specifically, I wanted to compare the length of the Hobbit movie to that of the source text, and run the same analysis for the three Lord of the Rings movies.įor movie length, I simply used the run time for the theatrical version of the movie as listed on IMDB. ![]() So me being me, I decided to put this issue into quantitative terms. Most importantly, I felt like the story didn’t advance far enough to justify taking up an entire movie on its own, especially compared to the Lord of the Rings movies. It felt slow at times, particularly during the multiple expository scenes in the first half and the interminably long action sequence in the second half. I know I’m late to this party, but I finally got around to seeing The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey after hearing much belly-aching over how the story of a single book is split into three separate movies: it seems like a blatant cash grab by the studios, a cynical move that put franchise movie economics ahead of things like storytelling and pacing.Īfter seeing the movie, I can definitely sympathize with these complaints. ![]()
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