[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Seventeen points against the movie...

[Susanne Schmid]

  Barb <blpurdom at yahoo.com> wrote: 
>> > 5) A detail I liked immensely: Harry taking those completely 
>> > nonsensical notes at the beginning of the Potions lesson.
>>  
>> Wasn't that *cute*?  I was so ANGRY with Snape for accusing him of 
>> not paying attention when he was dilligently taking notes.  Poor 
>> kid.

>This served to point up how unfair Snape was in singling him out.  He 
>was trying to be very conscientious, after all.  It was the first day 
>of school.  Who else but Hermione would have read the entire text and 
>have it memorized by then?  I do wish we'd seen Neville melting a 
>cauldron or two instead of Seamus blowing up water and feathers.  
>Where in the books do we get things exploding when spells are done 
>incorrectly?

>--Barb

 

That's just one more of those completely senseless additions that are supposed to be liked by kids (like the flying keys boring into the closed door). And I agree with you that kids would have found it just as funny if Neville had blown up a cauldron. There is no evidence whatsoever of erroneous spells causing explosions- except for the ones Ron performs with his broken wand- might that be a proof that Columbus actually read more than book 1??? That would really astonish me! Why, oh why didn't Terry Gilliam make this movie!!! 

BTW, just to throw in my two knuts about JKR's part in making the film: When you sell your first book to a publishing house, usually you're so glad to have it sold that you don't think of the possibility that anybody might want ot make a film out of it- three guesses how the part of the contract concerning the film rights will have been. At least, that's how things go in germany and Austria- I would be very astonished if it weren't pretty much the same in UK! I have a storng suspicion that, regarding CoS, things will have changed, anyway. Wishful thinking?????

Susanna/pigwidgeon37




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