{"id":1512,"date":"2012-01-24T18:57:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2021-01-03T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T23:59:00","slug":"movie-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/movie-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LOTR Sucks: Where The Movie Should Have Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_40969\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UdLYQawa3u0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>Post-montage, we listen to Bilbo narrate a bit from his memoir, There and Back Again, giving the audience something they do need to know about, hobbits. (Of course, if they had filmed The Hobbit first, like what I would have done, this would have been unnecessary.) I think we&#8217;d have been better served prolonging the darkness just a bit. Let&#8217;s start by letting the audience know about hobbits, what a quiet and simple life they lead, how they don&#8217;t like adventures, why Bilbo is seen as an eccentric for having gone on his adventure, and how Frodo may be following in his footsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, this is montage number two, in the first ten minutes, but who&#8217;s counting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minutes Watched:<\/strong> 10.22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number of Montages:<\/strong> 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\">beginning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-montage, we listen to Bilbo narrate a bit from his memoir, There and Back Again, giving the audience something they do need to know about, hobbits. (Of course, if they had filmed The Hobbit first, like what I would have done, this would have been unnecessary.) I think we&#8217;d have been better served prolonging the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1731,1728,1706,1724,1732],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-bilbo-baggins","tag-fellowship-of-the-ring","tag-hobbits","tag-montage","tag-there-and-back-again"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}