[HPFGU-Movie] 'Mudblood' scene

[Claire]

--- Wanda Sherratt <wsherratt3338 at rogers.com> wrote:

>  It makes 
> perfect sense in the book that Hermione would be
> quite innocent of 
> what a dirty insult Malfoy had thrown at her; as
> someone said, her 
> knowledge of the wizarding world comes mostly from
> books, and she's 
> not likely to have come across this seamier side
> there.  But there's 
> a danger that if the scene had been filmed the way
> it was written in 
> the book, the audience would think, "Well, if
> Hermione doesn't mind, 
> why should I?  It can't be that bad after all."  

This is an interesting take on the problems of
adapting this scene.  But my only quibble is that
since they removed the Gryffindor reaction, it is
unclear just how bad this word is in the wizarding
world.  

I think the movie does a poor job of 'showing' how bad
the word is.  The movie instead just 'tells' us by
having Hermione explain it away.  

Including the Gryffindors reaction, Hermione's tears
-to show she knows what it means and is hurt by it I
agree with you, this is important - and Ron's
explanation would have gone a long way to show just
how bad the word is, and include a bit more of Ron's
characterization which in my book is never a bad
thing.

Claire - who probably is just making a fuss because
she wanted to see the Weasleys defend Hermione.

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