[HPFGU-Movie] Depth of Vision in Film - Narnia, Eragon, and HP

[Missy Gallant]

THANK YOU!!!!!!

I've been reading the Narnia books since the third
grade.  I haven't read them in a while and while I
watched I kept thinking, I don't remember that
happening.  Well, there's a reason- they didn't
happen.  There were so many things added in, and so
many things left out that I was very upset. And I
could have handled the things put in I mean seriously
the book is like 150 pages, so I can see padding it to
make it longer.  But leaving things out or just
completely changing- no- nope- nope wrong.  Bad film
makers, bad bad bad.

That said- it WAS visually breathtaking.  The scenes
where they are rowing on the river- could that
countryside be more beautiful?


--- "Mrs. Lex Luthor" <lexluthorslady at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I have to say I was highly disappointed with Prince
> Caspian I can list at least 20 different things they
> did wrong but most notable they did wrong was the
> Prince himself, they changed him complete they lost
> the innocence of the Prince. 
> 
> The worst thing of all you can notice the parts they
> skipped, most people wouldn't notice the parts they
> skipped because probable allot of people haven't
> read the books. But man alive the parts they skipped
> or them adding lines to the movie!! Good grief i'd
> like to tell the director "Go read the book!"
> 
> If you are C.S Lewis fan like myself I have read
> Narnia over and over again since I was 15. Just like
> they did with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
> Azkaban they so ruined Prince Caspian,
> 
>  I will still buy to add  to the collection. Maybe
> they can redeem themselves with Voyage of the dawn
> treader but they will probable ruin that one as
> well. Maybe it will be better the second time
> around. Needless to say  BBC did better with Prince
> Caspian than they did with the newer version.
> 
> I was going to put up a list about the 20things I
> didn't like about Prince Caspian but I won't do
> that, if you haven't seen it go see it for your
> self's you will notice the missing gaps. 
> 
> It's still a good action flick but that is all. Not
> at all like The first one.
> 
> Love,
> Red
> 
> Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote: Here is a quote
> regarding the Narnia-Prince Capsian movie, yet
> I think it can be reasonably applied to the Harry
> Potter series
> as well as many other movie adaptations.
> 
> 
> "Narnia film long on action, short on faith"
>
http://www.anglicanjournal.com/culture/film/042/article/narnia-film-long-on-action-short-on-faith/
> 
> "...an over-emphasis on battles. It's precisely the
> same trap to
> which the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings
> fell prey. 
> What's lost in the process is the strong sense of
> character and 
> place and emotion that's present in the books. It's
> a shame that
> filmmakers don't trust their craft enough to indulge
> in leisurely
> scenes of quiet discovery and conversation. Without
> them, a film 
> cannot hope to fully engage us in the fate of its
> characters or 
> to immerse us in a world it only sketches."
> 
> In a very real sense, movies can't drag, they have
> to move 
> quickly to where they are going, but at the same
> time, I feel 
> the story is lost if they don't take the time to
> give me a sense
> of place and people. 
> 
> I care about Harry and friends because I have read
> the books, 
> but I don't know if the movie sufficiently establish
> either the
> place, the stories, or the characters enough that I
> can or would
> care about them.
> 
> Roger Ebert the film critic said something to the
> effect that
> no good movie is ever too long, and no bad movie is
> ever short
> enough. If you (meaning the movie makers) want us to
> sit for
> a long movie then simply make it a good movie; make
> us care. 
> 
> As far as I'm concerned all the HP movies were too
> short. In
> some cases simply leaving in the deleted scenes
> would have
> given more substance to the stories. In more cases,
> simply 
> telling a longer and better story would have done
> the job.
> 
> In all cases, it seems the the movie makes did the
> absolute 
> minimum they could get away with, and while the
> movie are
> enjoyable to me, a big Potter Fan, they are not any
> where
> near as enjoyable if they had taken the time to
> develop
> the plot and given some depth to the characters. 
> 
> For a movie adapted from a book to work, it needs to
> tell the
> story faithfully, not just to the general plot, but
> to the
> place, they characters, and the nature of the plot.
> The
> Harry Potter movie do that, but just barely. The
> Narnia 
> movies also do that, just barely. And note that
> these are
> successful movies.
> 
> But look at the movie 'Eragon', they failed
> miserably because
> they neither showed me the character nor developed
> the story.
> I love those books, and can't wait for the next one
> to come
> out, so if they had even done the most minimum
> amount to do
> justice to the story, I would have been happy, or at
> least,
> satisfied. But they didn't. They had brilliant
> actors that
> they didn't really use. The had a great story, that
> they just
> barely touched on. Where is the drama, where is the
> emotion,
> where are the characters I care about struggling
> against
> impossible odds? Gone...apparently.
> 
> The sad part is that the writing and directing were
> so bad
> in Eragon, that they have in essence doomed the
> franchise.
> If you hope to start and maintain a lengthy
> franchise, and
> this one would have been at least 4 movies, then you
> have to
> get the first one right. It sets the stage for
> everything.
> Yet, they blew it, they blew 3 or 4 billion dollars
> because
> they couldn't take the time and trouble to get the
> first
> story/movie right. 
> 
> I did see the latest Narnia movie, and I did enjoy
> it, but
> it seems a very thin story, and I confess I haven't
> read the
> books. It did do the job, the same way the latest HP
> movie
> did the job, it covered the bare essentials in the
> most basic
> way, but I sensed there was so much more depth
> there. 
> 
> I enjoyed it in the way I enjoyed the HP movies, I
> liked what
> I saw, but sensed that there was so much more to
> tell. So much
> more that could have lent depth and meaning to the
> characters 
> and the circumstances.
> 
> I have some comments about Ben Barnes, but I will
> hold off
> until more people have seen it, I don't want to
> spoil it
> for them. Overall, I though all the actors did a
> good job,
> and the special effects were really good. I'm
> somewhat 
> disappointed that HP can't do Centaur that well. 
> 
> As an actor in general, I thought Ben Barnes (Prince
> Caspian)
> was very good. The greatest thing lacking in
> anyone's
> performance came not from the quality of the actors,
> but from
> the writing and directing.
> 
> Still, I do recommend it to any fans.
> 
> steve/bboyminn
> 
> 
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