what scenes do you think the movie did better than the books?

[elady25]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/18/2004 7:14:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> That said, I have a few where the movie really disappointed, too:

> 2.Devil's Snare.  In the book, Hermione loses her head and Ron has to
> remind her she knows how to conjure fire.  Both these characters lose
> something in the movie version.

artsylynda:
>
> And Devil's Snare -- that line about "You ARE a witch, aren't you?"
is SO 
> perfect, and they completely messed up that scene IMO.  There was no
reason to 
> change it.  It would have been just as visually dramatic as it was
written. 

I think they changed it to give Hermione her "moment", since they cut
the potion!logic part out.  But the problem is this changes Hermione's
character.  The point is that she is logical, methodical, but not
necessarily good in a crisis.  IMHO, it robbed her of one of her flaws.


> I think the Quidditch game was well-done -- adding Harry "surfing"
on the 
> broom was a bit much, but pretty cool visually. 

imamommy:

Well, if Legolas can surf on his shield down the stairs at Helm's
Deep...Hehehe