" The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)d.Peter Jackson, 161 minutes (186 minutes extended)Film Plot SummaryPrologue (Flashback)On a thundering, stormy night in the town of Bree (on the borders of the Shire), short-statured, raincoat-wearing, bearded Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) entered the Prancing Pony.The camera tracks along the crown of the trees and then slowly moves downward to a shot of thatched rooftops in a native village.Christina: They forced me to go there.They took away my clothes o make me stay.Hammer: Who?Christina: I wish I could tell you that.I have to tell someone.When people are in trouble, they need to talk.But you know the old saying.Hammer: ""What I don""t know can""t hurt me""?...They stop at an unidentified, rural, flourescent neon-lit gas service station (in Calabasas) after a few miles to remove a branch stuck in the car""s wheel - it was causing the car to pull o the right.Why, what""s there to be afraid of? And when I get in a tight spot, I shoot my way out of it.Why sure.Shoot first and argue afterwards.You know, this game ain""t for guys that""s soft!Joe admits that there""s money and women, "good imes," and "excitin"" things" in the big town for them, where their fame and fortune lie." Kolp taunted him, called him a "clever ape," and brandished his pistol at Caesar: "And now, Ape City is about to lose its king.