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Need TextThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Creating a Waterlogged Action SequenceOf all the scenes in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Peter Jackson cites the escape from the elves as one of his favorites. So in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the director went to great lengths to make Bilbo and the dwarves' wine-barrel-enabled getaway from Thranduil's realm into an epic seven-minute action sequence. How'd he do it? Watch the video above to see how Jackson and his team used 98 hours of footage from aerial shots, green-screen sets, live-action shoots, and complex CG environments to make the final white-knuckle scene"

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But, but, there is no action escape scene in the Hobbit, Barrels out of Bond?

But, but, there is no action escape scene in the Hobbit, Barrels out of Bond?

Of course, the chapter consists of a cold and dreary escape down a river with the dwarves sealed inside waterlogged barrels and Bilbo invisible on top, mostly in the dark.

So, if filmed, that would consist of an extended sequence where the audience watches a bunch of dimly seen closed barrels float down a stream at night, punctuated only by the sound of the occasional sneeze.

I like it in the book, too, but on film, that's a snoozer. So I rather enjoyed the more action-oriented escape in the film, and understood Jackson's decision to so make it.

If the Star Wars prequels had had thirteen riccocheting, lightsaber-Yodas, they'd have been thirteen times better.

The book scene is not very cinematographic, but the film completely went overboard. When you look back at Lord of the Rings it had a few goofy moments, but kept it relatively straight. Those scenes in the Hobbit felt like a third rate director had seen LOTR and decided to top it with "incredibly mind blowing action." Aiming directly for the jugular of the lowest common denominator.

Then I suppose it was a burden on Jackson to be forced to shoot a scene that would have been dreary, he made the right choice, I suppose. I mean, he was saddled with the requirement of making three films, I mean, come on, if you film the Hobbit, and have to make it three, three hour long movies, I suppose you are going to have to embelish a bit.

The whole point of the scene in the book was Bilbo, alone and in peril, working his butt off to save his comrades. It could have been done, just not dwelt on for too long. The scene in the movie was one of the STUPIDEST things I've seen on film, and that's even just trying to take it on its own merits. That wasn't just over the top, it was over the top, across no-man's land, through the wire, up on the parapet, and blew itself up with its own grenade.