Should we rewind perhaps?

[alhewison]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "roleplayer_m_uk" <shanerichmond at h...> wrote:


> the simplification of character traits was one of the things that 
> bugged me most about the movie. thus snape is nicer, dumbledore is 
> humourless, and harry - and here was my biggest problem - is the 
big 
> hero.
> 
> in the books harry doesn't actually ACT very much (certainly not 
> until PoA at any rate) things simply happen to him. it's harry who 
> figures out most of the plot - which is not the case in the books. 
> when snape is picking on him we see that he was actually taking 
notes 
> on snape's speech. whereas in the books, harry often isn't paying 
> attention, often snape is quite right to question him (though not 
so 
> maliciously as he often does).
> 
> this loss of complexity is one of the saddest things about the 
movie. 
> and it didn't have to be that way - i've seen movies with 
complicated 
> characters, honest! it can be done mr kloves!

Isn't it strange how differently we can interpret the same film. The 
screen play really annoyed me as I felt that it made Harry alot more 
wimpy. In the books I felt he was MORE of a hero! He is the one who 
decides that he is never going to go to the dark side, he makes the 
decision to go it alone against "Snape" to get the Philosopher's 
Stone. In the film, many of his "brave" speeches are either dumned 
down or given to other characters. Other speeches are given to him(eg 
worrying about being on the Quidditch team) that I couldn't imagine 
the book Harry saying.

I do agree that in the book things happen to Harry and he is also 
quite inattentive. I want to see Harry more fiesty  and complex - but 
still a hero!

Ali