NO CHANGES TO THE MOVIES!!! Options

[Kazuya Potter]

Okay, calmy, read and think about it.
Harry Potter is a great, bestselling book series and Chris Columbus began filming the first movie before the last book was even made!
If you make ONE change from the book to the movie...
then this is a totally different person. He did not take the exact same actions he took in the book.

Understand now that changes are made only to make the movie shorter but you are changing the person.
If its "Based on the novel by Jk Rowling" then you gotta make it based. So if in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone had with that 3 headed dog hermione, harry, ron, and neville in the room, how can it be possible for neville NOT be in the room in the motion picture?

This post has been edited by Kazuya Potter: Jun 5 2004, 03:23 PM

[Jeni Ann]

I hate that alot.

[beyond the veil]

i think i read somewhere that the script witers and directors have meetings with JK to see what definetly needs to go in and what can't be changed in the story, if things aren't really needed for the rest of the series then they are taken out or changed.
(Mind you it does annoy me sometimes as well :D )

[The only one he ...]

I repeat it again and again!! i don't want any movie!!!

[baty4potter]

[ronweasleyrocks]

I agree with you baty. Sure its ok for people to talk about things that they didnt like about the film. But to waste their time writing that they dont want to see another HP film and to waste our time having to go through countless numbers of posts with people writing this - there has been more than one member - well, it does get pretty tiresome after a while and pretty pointless really.

[ginapotter]

i may not have liked the third movie, but i thot the first and the second were awesome. even if they did cut out alot. and i agree with beyond the veil they probably have meetings with JKR to decide. that seems logical.

[Arsi]

A bit off the subject, but I was devistated when they never put Tom Bombdabil in The Fellowship of the Ring. He was such an interesting character, and deleting him got rid of the Barrow Downs. But in the end the movie was still good.

There is no way that they can include everything from the book. Things have to be cut out. Peeves was a loss, the animosity between Draco and Harry was never truly explored. But reading the books, you know what is missing, and should be able to enjoy them.

Does it really bother me that Dudley is thinner than his uncle, or that the twins are taller than Ron, not really, it doesnt detract from the movie. I would love to see more Quidditch in the movie.

A very good judge of how good the movie is... is JK Rowling herself, if she is satisfied with how the movie is done, it should be good enough for the rest of us. I can think of VERY few movies that come anywhere close to how good the books are. It is virtually impossible to capture all the little things within the movie. You tend to lose alot of the internal monologue that you get from books.

I have seen the 3rd movie 2 times so far. First time I was a bit dissapointed, seeing them out of robes so often, the firebolt at the end, no real arguements between Hermione and Ron and Harry. But the second time I saw it, I was able to adjust to how it was directed, and throughly enjoyed it.

Will the movies ever be as good as the books, no, it is impossible. When you read the books you are adding your own imagination, and the movie can never make up for that.

Seeing that you hate the movie is actually good, it shows that you enjoy reading, More people should read, reading keeps the mind sharp.

[8Ball]

It doesnt really seem of hatred to the movie because of the changes, but that its just more clear if there are less.

[sweetsixteen]

I see the films to watch my fav books on the big screen,and it helps me visualise what is happening in the books more. For instance, i can only imagine Daniel Radcliffe as Harry when i read the books, it makes it better!

[PersiaLestrange]

I usually have some really great images from the book, and like to see how they compare to the movies, except then I can never remember my original thoughts because they become replaced by the movie...any subsequent readings of the book, and I see actors and sets....I'm grateful for any differences...I don't even know if Harry Potter in my version is the one I have to picture now- thought Radcliffe is good, naturally

[Paladin]

I don't want to get off topic but:

[Chappers]

[twestann]

I liked all three movies. Of course, I liked the books better but the movies were great.
The problem is that the later book are longer and more complex so it's going to be harder to get eveything in the movie versions.I thought they captured the spirit of Azkaban very well. It was much darker and sinister but they couldn't put everythink in it. I missed the conversation with Dumbledore at the end of the book where he tells Harry that he thinks that someday he will be very happy he saved Wormtail's life. I think that forshadows what will happen in future books and I wish they'd have put it in the movie. If Richard Harris would still have been alive, would they have done more scenes involving Dumbledore?

If they went to a mini-series format, they could use more of the book but then we would miss more of the effects of a big screen,

[DamnPissedWithLo...]

for us, books are books and movies are movies
they are never the same.
it could be an adaption but still not the same.
We appreciate books because words give us an imagination of a fictatious world.
We appreciate movies because it actually show us what we imagined in another angle and it gives us visual entertainment.
Books gives us more details but movies show us the details in another light.
Many novel-turn-movies aren't what we imagined when we read them but we should enjoy it nonetheless.
Many examples are LOTR, Jurassic Park, Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, The Sphere etc.
I was also pissed of the way they made Queen of the Damned, being a huge vampire chronicles fan myself. Characters were all mixed up. Events were all mixed up. Everything is different. But I still like the movie.
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