Timeline for Why does Smaug have 4 legs in the 1st movie but only 2 legs in the 2nd?
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| Mar 19, 2020 at 20:25 | comment | added | JMac | @Pryftan When you take a book and adapt it into a film, you can change practically anything you want, if the contracts allow it. It's not incorrect to do so. It might be unfaithful to the source material; but that is their choice for how closely they want to adapt their film to the books. It's not factual to say that's incorrect. It's basically a non-sequitur. If someone said it was a perfectly identical adaptation of the books, then you could call that person incorrect and point to this. Given that I doubt the films claim this, it means they aren't incorrect; just an adaptation. | |
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 14:09 | comment | added | Pryftan | @Ren Maybe so but it's still unfaithful to canon. That's the issue. You might think it looks better but that doesn't mean it's correct. It's not correct; it's incorrect and that is factual. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 7:18 | comment | added | Ren | @Pryftan it is your opinion, I personally would have found the dragon ridiculous if it looked like the ones in Tolkien's drawings. Some people like the movies, some don't, that's it. | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 17:40 | comment | added | Pryftan | As @M.A.Golding says it should follow as closely as Tolkien depicted him. But the quote that for Jackson there's never too late for a great idea - that's just absurd. His films are terrible and this is one example of such. Even if it was a good idea it introduces inconsistencies and when it's part of the same story it makes no sense at all. How can it be a good idea to remove limbs (or add limbs) to the same character in the same story where the story doesn't have any way that would add/remove limbs? That's just completely asinine. It's mental. That's not a good idea. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 16:52 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | It was a change in the design choice and also an error. Smaug should look as closely as possible to the way that Tolkien depicted him in drawings. | |
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| Nov 7, 2019 at 8:40 | history | answered | Ren | CC BY-SA 4.0 |