[movies] a visualization I'd like to see

[cellio]

We went to see the second Hobbit movie today. Now we already knew, of course, from (a) the fact that it's a trilogy and (b) seeing the first movie, that there was going to be a lot of extra stuff. Even so, I found myself wondering if as much as a quarter of this movie was in the book, or if my memory is faulty.

A visualization I would really like to see (and see updated when the third movie comes out): a "timeline" showing elapsed film time (not plot time), with a set of (discontinuous) lines or bars representing segments that are in the book. I want to know not just how much of the movie is in the book but where and for how long those stretches run. So, for example, the first bar wouldn't start until about 25 minutes into the first movie (as I recall), because all that preamble stuff was new.

Can we get the XKCD guy to do this? This seems like it would be right up his alley.

I'm not picking on the movies (well, maybe a little, but I'll still see the third one so it can't be that bad). I'm just curious, but not nearly enough of a fan to do the data-collection myself.

(I am assuming that the movies are a superset of the book, meaning there's nothing in the book but not in the movies. Is that assumption correct?)

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

The first movie was an adaptation, maybe, but the second was downright fanfic. I say that as someone who loves, reads, and writes fanfic.

I liked Tauriel -- there obviously had to be unnamed-in-the-book elf warriors, so why not have one be female -- but yeah, the second movie was very, very far from the book.

[cellio]

Fanfic. That's the perfect description. And, to be clear, I don't have a problem with fanfic and I did enjoy the movie for what it was (which isn't high art or anything, but was a fine way to spend a few hours). I just wasn't expecting fanfic, so it threw me.

Female elf warriors are fine. The love-interest angle was definitely new, though. :-)