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    The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)

    Lindsay Ellis

    3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2019–2022

    YouTube

    36:49 · 5.9M views · Mar 28, 2018

    The first part of Lindsay Ellis's video essay series on the troubled production and critical reception of The Hobbit film trilogy.

    HN recommends it as an engaging analysis of how the Hobbit films were made, in threads on CGI and Tolkien.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @muzzioSep 2019· in “Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (2017)”

      Longer form than EFaP, but Lindsay Ellis has some great film/TV analysis videos. She's usually more focused on writing than anything else, though. Here's a postmortem she did on the Hobbit films, which was recently nominated for a Hugo award: this video Other solid works by her include a postmortem on the last season of Game of Thrones and an analysis of themes in Michael Bay's Transformers. (I know that last one sounds weird, but it's really well done.)

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @scott_sFeb 2022· in “Over-reliance on CGI in movies”

      Agreed agreed. The problem with The Hobbit was not the visual effects. The problem was that it was made without a plan, under duress. Lindsay Ellis has a three-part video essay series ( this video yes, I know it says 1/2, I promise there is a 2/3) exploring this.

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @ApocryphonJan 2020· in “Christopher Tolkien has died”

      The Hobbit films had a troubled production and were terribly rushed. Here's the first video in a small YouTube series on it: this video

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