After resting for 9 years from his main work, Peter Jackson suddenly remembered that I forgot to film the beginning. Having collected a great team of script writers, which, among others, Guillermo del Toro entered and a brilliant cast, generously flavored with officials from the epic trilogy, the director enthusiastically took up the matter - the creation of a regular 9-hour epic, but this time from the 200-page book.
This, perhaps, was almost the main intrigue - Jackson will be able to expand the scale of the three children's story written by Professor Tolkien in the happy days when he still had no idea of any literary immortality zavedut his way of Middle-earth. The answer becomes obvious from the first frame "The Hobbit", returns us to the point in time where a half-hour before the start of the story, "The Lord of the Rings": old Bilbo Baggins is preparing to celebrate the birth and young Frodo hangs a sign "Entrance only in the case about Treats "and runs off into the woods to meet the wizard Gandalf. This scene, to which are the characters and the actors (in fact, the same Elijah Wood and Ian Holm) of the previous trilogy, the director and the entire team of writers clearly given to understand that the "Lord of the Rings" in "The Hobbit" to be.And that such references to the future, but is already implemented in the imagination of the viewer and the events will compensate for the lack of epic tales and event known as "The Hobbit".
Somehow even uncomfortable to retell the story, but required the tradition of the genre. One fine morning in the measured life of a respectable hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) invades the magician Gandalf (moved from "Lord of the Rings" Ian Mc Kellen) with a proposal to take part in a dangerous but exciting adventure is not without financial gain. In the evening there are other participants - 13 dwarves led by the heir of the king under the mountain Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage).
All good company sent to the campaign to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor Dwarfs, together with all its treasures seized the dragon could not. During their adventures, as usual, will survive the formation of courage and friendship, to meet the trolls, orcs and elves, and hobbit featuring more and find all pretty vile gold ring that is 60 years later, his nephew Frodo incur to Mount Doom.
Not to beat around the bush - the first part of "The Hobbit" was a success.She went hateful sparkling casket with the main diamond in the form of Freeman as Bilbo and the second bottom in the form of apprehension of impending darkness on Middle-earth. Then Jackson skillfully avoid too obvious flash backlinks, elegant and dosed into the story characters - the carrier of the premonitions of the future of the great battle between good and evil. But with thorough precision reproduced Rivendell, where at one time moves Fellowship of the Ring, that's already suspicious frowns Saruman, Galadriel says that's a beautiful detached his prophecies, and the lord Elrond, worrying about the fate of his people, has doubts about the success of the enterprise Gandalf, as will doubt and 60 years later. In general, how was it? "The world has changed. I can feel it in the water, I feel in the ground, I feel in the air ... ". It was such a sensation irreversible changes organically woven into the first film "The Hobbit", creating a strong single entity from a children's fairy tales and fantasy master of all time.
And yet the film came out very English. Due to the same two factors: frimanovsky Bilbo Baggins - it is a typical Englishman (a little bit more and would be a caricature, but there were), and intertwining the story with future developments of the films made 10 years ago - it's the very thing "in the future past "- tenses, which is only in English.