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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9625009" data-attributes="member: 4348">The above may be a harsh summary (perhaps an exaggeration, but if the trailer redone in Ghibli style is as you say, then in rightful respects, one would have to say you downright despise the books because you love the movies so much) but it bears reckoning that your criticism is rather ironic and hypocritical in consideration of what was said about the movies by the Tolkien estate at the time and many of the hardcore fans of the books.I mean, if we get down to it, the movies are an abomination in relation to how they portray the books.  Jackson changes things that have no reason to be changed at all (for example, why exclude Bombadil, who some see as a key part of the Fellowship of the Ring novel, or the Barrow Wights...and the deviations get worse in the next two movies).Jackson did it flagrantly.  He only got called on it when he did the EXACT same thing in the Hobbit movies.  They were not really any more flagrant or bigger, just more people noticed.I could write a much more detailed exposition about how the movies actually are far worse than the books themselves, and show no respect for the actual book or the author in the same way you did for the trailer.  I'd say the trailer actually shows far more respect for the movies than the movies do for the books.That said, I made my peace long ago with those differences.  They are different things.  The movies are inspired by the books, and on themselves are great pieces of cinematography and art.  They are perhaps some of the greatest cinematic pieces of the early 21st century.  I'd say someone doing this with AI on a full movie scale, if they could pull it off, would be a feat of AI and in the same way the movies are a callback to the novels, even if they don't respect or follow the same things, this could be similar in the same way.As far as Ghibli itself and it's original creator...Which should we accept...The Cartoon Hobbit and Return of the King or this?  (PS: I also love the Cartoon versions of these and in some ways consider them superior to the Live actions ones, but they are not true representations of the books either).  I think he (Miyazaki) would advocate for hand drawn animation (a quickly dying art) and categorize this in the same arena that he categorizes Disney 3d animation films that were coming out over the past 15 years.  I'm not sure he would be a fan, but he would see how these things are catering to a different/Western Audience.  He would feel his way is superior and better, but also realize the truth of the world around him and how it is changing and developing, while mourning our loss of artistic appreciation.</blockquote>

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