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Smaug: Movie Analysis

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Imagine, being great beastly dragon who is unstoppable and will get what they want and will destroy anything that gets in their way. But what if that was just all a lie while the original dragon was rather hot-headed, dramatic, and careful about what is theirs. This is what exactly happens when Peter Jackson, director of the Hobbit:the Desolation of Smaug, changes the massive dragon, Smaug, to his own perspective to make his movie more exciting. The original Smaug took place in one of J.J.R. Tolkien’s works, The Hobbit, and Peter Jackson brought Smaug to life. But before meeting Smaug, the setting first took place in Hobbiton where Hobbits lived their lives peacefully, but that all changed for one particular Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins is a simple …show more content…

Bilbo really had no choice and went along with the adventure where they faced trials. Fighting trolls, meeting unusual people, and having illusions of food since the dwarves were starving while soon fighting giant spiders that were trying to eat them. These were some of the most outrageous challenges that Bilbo and the dwarves had to face. But their real goal was to get the Arkenstone from dwarf lands guarded by a deadly dragon. Smaug, the dragon that attacked these lands and killed most of the population of dwarves to claim that land as his own, then comes into play and gives the group a difficult time by trying to eat them and burning them to ashes; since Bilbo decided to take a golden cup. Because Smaug is such a dramatic character in the book, this differs from the Smaug in the movie tremendously with many changes involved in the process. But because of the changes Jackson has made in the movie, this gives Smaug more characteristics and facial expressions than can be imagined from reading the book. Some of the changes that Jackson has made are: turning Smaug into a predictable character, and how he has an incredible

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