The battle of the five armies original motion picture soundtrack licensed to youtube by. He was anecdotally slain by thorins cousin dain ironfoot. Thorin is the leader of the company of dwarves who aim to reclaim the lonely mountain from smaug the dragon. If youre more of a visual person, movies will stay with you more than words on a page. I dont read very much, but id say its one of the top 2 books ive ever read. A fan edit of peter jacksons hobbit trilogy, professionally edited down to one long movie, closely following the book. Azog was a powerful orc chieftain who claimed rulership over the abandoned dwarvish mines of moria during the. If you can be happy with the lotr extended editions then you can be happy with mine. Desolation of smaug and i noticed azog avoids confrontation with beorn in the forest yet later beorn mentions that azog has slaughtered all his family in the past leaving just beorn. How would he look like, if you see him standing right next to you. He is the son of thrain ii, grandson of thror, and becomes king of durins folk during their exile from erebor. I thought that now with the hobbit movie out in theatres, i would make a post where we could discuss the movie to the book. Filmmakers, consider this your cheat sheet for bringing bookbased movies more up to snuff. Oftentimes movies based on books leave out crucial plot points of the book because you cant make a five hour long movie.
Unlimited powers a book has unlimited imaginary powers. Beorn i apologize in advance if i spell any character names wrong. Azog was an orc of the third age who commanded the tribes of moria from ta 2790 until his death in ta 2799. As a devoted tolkien fan and reader i have no personal objections to the change. Was the battle just for exposition of how thorin cuts off azogs arm. Spoilers below and no, this isnt just a douchey hey look at me i read a book and its better than the movie etc thread. This was basically a lot of background information on the history, languages, and peoples.
The 11 biggest differences between the book and movie. The hobbit 2012 battle for moria 4k edited no narration. Ok, so i just finished reading the firm for the first time about a week ago and thought it was fantastic. The cgi is good in the hobbit but i wasnt in the mood for transformers 4, i wanted to see a peter jackson joint. Which is why im telling you all to forget about movie magic and get back to. Tolkeins 1937 classic fantasy novel the hobbit and one of the two main antagonists along with smaug of sir peter jacksons adapted liveaction film trilogy, being the main antagonist of both an unexpected journey and. Comparing and contrasting the movie and the book nightjohn the young adult novel nightjohn depicts the plight of enslaved africanamericans from the pointofview of an adolescent so that readers can feel as well as learn about the difficulties experienced by slaves in the antebellum south. Heres a comparison of the 1986 book and 2017 movie. Its undeniable that a book original usually blasts its movie version out of the water. Many movie novelizations are surprisingly different than the actual movies. Every book in the top ten of dymocks annual top 101 books for 2016 as voted by australians has been made into a movie. Lots of amazing books have been turned into movies, and lots of great movies. With a book, you can be the hero who kills the demon with one twirl of your blade.
He actually died almost 150 years before the book begins. He was responsible for the death of king thror and for king thrains madness. Yeah, sometimes you have to change stuff from book to film. Azog was a chief of the orcs living in the abandoned dwarvish kingdom khazaddum. While it is strictly canon that an orc named azog fought the dwarves at khazaddum and that he killed. Feb 01, 2018 this small clip is the only one ill upload from the first movie, and its kinda experimental. At weathertop, the pack of orcs and wargs that had chased thorins company earlier congregate and discuss their. Originally just a hobbit lad who often went on mini adventures throughout the shire, bilbo becomes a member of thorins company and earns the respect of his leader thorin after he saved his life from azog the defiler and the orcs. These events are related by the narrator, gandalf and thorin during the. A movie adaptation can enhance the experience of the book and can bring to life, and get transported into this other world. I really wanted to love this movie but halfway through i wanted it to end. Its not my place to speak for peter jackson as i have no direct knowledge behind his decisions but it makes sense to me that he would do this. Later in the film, an orc captain, yazneg, reports his failure to kill the dwarves back to azog, and is thrown to the wargs by him with an orc pack camping on.
Thorin oakenshield from book to film scifi and fantasy network. It was fantastic, because instead of just having two warrior gods duke it out in absurdness see. In the lord of the rings, tolkien even describes azog as a great orc. Why is the hobbit book better than its movie adaptation. I changed some of the game pack files to create the unit azog and gandalfs robes colour also in vanilla submod, noldor swordsmens.
And although the literary original had a considerably smaller amount of material 300 pages as opposed to 1200 pages of lotr, the decision was made to split the material in order to make three. Before you open your book with a movie style prologue. In the year ta third age 2790, the erstwhile king under the mountain, thror, wandered into moria, hoping to reclaim it as a new throne. Great for comparing and contrasting and thinking critically about how the movie was made. He is a whiteskinned orc, known as the pale orc or azog the defiler.
Azog is played by manu bennett via motioncapture and cg though he was originally intended to be played by conan stevens in a practical costume and makeup. Bilbo baggins peter jacksons the hobbit wiki fandom. Unlimited powers a book has unlimited imaginary powers and so does a film. Oct 02, 20 its undeniable that a book original usually blasts its movie version out of the water. I thought that a separate thread would be good as to not expose anyone to spoilers in the movie from another persons thread. This is the first in a series of posts entitled 21st century fiction on screen. The battle of the five armies inspired cinematic battle.
November marks the release of several movies based on young adult novels, which makes it the perfect time for this kind of study. In the published book, the hobbit, the goblins are led by azog s son bolg of the north. The army surprise attack was only successful due to the aid given by the were. The hobbit 20 battle of the five armies part 1 only. Azog, also known as azog the defiler, is a background antagonist in j.
The desolation of smaug, after smaug had driven the dwarves out of the lonely mountain, thror attempted to lead all of his people back to their ancestral realm in azanulbizar only to find that the gundabad orcs, led by azog, had gotten there first. While it is strictly canon that an orc named azog fought the dwarves at khazad dum and that he killed. I just finished reading the hobbit so i went and watched the movie right away. Battle of azanulbizar the one wiki to rule them all fandom. In his hobbit trilogy, peter jackson greatly changed the story line concerning azog, having him survive the battle of azanulbizar, losing his arm to thorin instead of his head to dain, and thus living to become one of the four main antagonists in the series the other three are sauron, smaug, and bolg. Whether out of a fever dream, movie studio greed, or a total misreading. Azogs horde vs the fighting urukhai spacebattles forums. So so excited to go back to peter jacksons middleearth. The book has such vivid descriptions that i know a lot of differences by heart.
Azog does not appear in the book, although he is mentioned by name in chapter one. In each entry ill be comparing a contemporary novel to its film adaptation. A hoodless kili and fili knock at bilbos door in hobbit trailer. I decided to just get it done and make this comparison so i didnt need to look it up every single time.
Many small differences add up to give each work a distinctive fe. Book vs movie podcast listen via stitcher for podcasts. While reading the book i felt jack was a close friend and i started caring for him. Oct 26, 2016 the book is pretty much always going to be better than the movie. He only had a passing mention in the book, and he was said to be dead by the time of the story as he was killed at the battle of azanulbizar 150 years prior to the events of the hobbit. Thorins cousin dain killed the orc at the battle of azanulbizar in the year 2799 t. Azog and his wargriding orcs finally track down thorin as he and the rest of the company. Azog preferred to weaken his enemies by sending hordes of fodder to fight them and then he would swoop in and fight a tired enemy, and he still. The five most irritating ways peter jacksons the hobbit deviated. How 10 books changed on their way to becoming movies.
Sep 08, 2017 the most immediate difference between the novel and the film is the time period. Now imagine how tall was thorin oakenshield the dwarf king in the movie. Tolkeins 1937 classic fantasy novel the hobbit and one of the two main antagonists along with smaug of sir peter jacksons adapted liveaction film trilogy, being the main antagonist of both an unexpected journey and the battle of the five armies, and a supporting antagonist in the desolation of smaug. The only full account of the event is tolkiens description of the battle of azanulbizar in appendix a to the lord of the rings. There and back again that bolg will appear in one or both of the next two movies in peters hobbit trilogy. Azogs movie representation has pale skin to the point of being white, but his lego equivalent is depicted with more tan skin. In the movie, the battle of azanulbizar appears in a flashback. Visual images are very powerful, but so is the experience of reading and development of our own. Bilbo baggins, is set to appear in a third movie inspired by the book. I had always thought all orcs to have quite the same posture, but when watching the hobbit movie and the orcs of gundabad are mentioned together with the pale orc, i noticed that they are larger than the mordor orcs weve seen before in the lotr movies is this only theatrical i. Film is a column comparing books to the film adaptations they spawn, often discussing them on a plotpointbyplotpoint basis. Jan 18, 2016 the hobbit producers took a 300page book and turned it into three, three hour long movies.
Though big in the book, the movie portrays the dragon as the size of two 747 airplanes. Honestly, bolg had better combat showings than azog. The army made its first appearance during the attack on the lonely mountain and the city of dale in the hobbit. From the minute evangeline lilly was cast in the role of tauriel, tolkien fans were concerned.
For example, theres no limit to what can happen in books. He also appeared in the video game, lego the hobbit. Bolg or one fighter completely thrashing another with no visual aesthetics see. Azog s army was amassed in the fortress of dol guldur, where azog and the necromancer were taking refuge. In kings book, the action is set between 19841985, when the losers club are adults. Also, isengard isnt really set up to be a fortress. Scenes and characters added to the hobbit films fandango.
Dec 18, 2012 in the book the hobbit azog is little more than just a name. Filmmakers, consider this your cheat sheet for bringing book based movies more up to snuff. In the book it was stated that the bats flying above made flocks so thick they blotted. So if any movie was long enough to give us all the information from the book it was the hobbit trilogy and yet they didnt. Azog the defiler is an orc chieftain from the book and movies, the hobbit. The newly retitled trilogy wasnt the only detwilighted romance on the market, but it was the one that caught fire. Book vs movie road to perdition the margos return to graphic novels in this special episode the world of midwest prohibitionera gangster life is the subject of this episode of book vs movie with road to perditionthe 1998 graphic novel from max allan collins and the 2000 film directed by sam mendes. We dont have any information about when this happened, but it was. The original star wars had a book version that was weirdly different and came out months earlier. I suspect that thorin will kill azog either in the second movie or the third. Book vs movie road to perdition the margos return to graphic novels in this special episode the world of midwest prohibitionera gangster life is the subject of this episode of book vs movie with road to perditionthe from and the 2000 film directed by. Below, six reasons books almost always take the cake. Comparing men, dwarves, elves and orcs and found that. In the book, bolg ruled the goblins in mount gundabad for 150 years, but in the film trilogy, he is the secondincommand because azog is still alive.
However, many movies fail no matter how good the book is, so that makes the movie special too. For another, the vibrancy and leanness in visual storytelling has lent much to our necessarily windier, lusher written literature however, its also important to realize books vs. And movies based on books can spark interest in the book its based on, making people want to read the book. It has been a long time since ive read the book, but id say the differences are really quite enormous. Then, where the book was weak, the movie was strong, and vice versa. This was so their army could make a surprise attack on the dwarves. In my opinion the role of thorin was expanded in order to give the. The incident gandalfs referring to is called the war of the dwarves and orcs1, and its. For one thing, story structure has long been championed much more stridently by screenwriters than novelists.
A project started on june 19th, 2019, and the first draft finished on april th, 2020, 300 days later. Thorins nemesis in the film, azog the defiler, is not even present in the book as he was killed almost a century before by dain, at the battle of. I was playing with sounds, trying to leave the original track with sounds, but deleting the narration. Do we have any actual numbers given for azogs army in the movie. Azog s movie representation has pale skin to the point of being white, but his lego equivalent is depicted with more tan skin. Am i the only one who thought it dragged on and on and on andok, you get the point. Bilbo baggins is the main protagonist and titular character of of peter jacksons the hobbit film series. Scenes and characters added to the hobbit films how did one little book become three epic blockbusters. Both versions are truly scary, but they do have some key differences. In the movies azog kills more major characters thror, fili, and thorin than any other villain in the middleearth franchise. A book thinner than the fellowship does not need to be three.
I guess after king kong we can only expect computer generated hogwash. Kazuo ishiguros 2005 novel never let me go is both an unsettling allegory of systemic oppression, and an intimate portrait of three young people negotiating an impossible living situation. Nov 19, 2015 books vs movies moreover, there is a consensus that the book is better than the movie. What are the differences between stephen kings novel it. Now, go read the book, and then go watch the movie. Since azog and bolg depart so heavily from their book counterparts, i decided to write this so people would stop getting confused about who was in what, and what was ruled by who. The first sequel was the desolation of smaug, released in december 20.
Azog is the only orc ranked by the fact that his warg is white, whilst the others ride brownfurred wargs. Dec 14, 2019 azog is played by manu bennett via motioncapture and cg though he was originally intended to be played by conan stevens in a practical costume and makeup. It does appear, from credits listed at imdb for the hobbit. About 9 years after the finale of the phenomenal lord of the rings trilogy, peter jacksons next adaptation of j.
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