The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Our read · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Hobbit
What watching it is actually like.
“You want massive fantasy battles and the end of a Tolkien adventure.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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