[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Characters acting OOC/Was:Rupert Grint

[Nightbreed]

At least with Cho, she was given the Viratiserum, so she wasn't a traitor in
the film she could not have possibly of not told the truth. 

 

I also think that by and large similar emotional sentiment has been
demonstrated for each character that you find in the book, the specific
moments may not be there, but the relationships and the audiences awareness
of the characters has been well done, I think, considering how much they cut
out.

 

I really liked that Cauron had several moments between Ron and Hermione
whether it be the momentary handholding before Buckbeak or Hermione
instinctively embracing Ron with Harry standing there too, or my favorite (a
funny moment) when she says "Would you like to move closer" and Ron replies
"What?"  

 

What they need to do, I think, is expand Ginny in the last two films.
Rowling never made Ginny a character, yet Harry and her fall in love and get
married and have children. To not ever really make Ginny come alive on the
page was the single, great flaw I think in the series, for her to be so
important to Harry yet never really be a character we can see and know is a
huge misstep. I really wanted her to tell Mrs. Weasley in no uncertain terms
that she loved Harry and was leaving with he, Ron and Hermione in the last
book.

 

md

 

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Behalf Of sartoris22
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 10:28 PM
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Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Characters acting OOC/Was:Rupert Grint

 


> 
> zanooda:
>> I can understand the movie-makers' desire to make us feel for 
Harry,
> but it shouldn't be at the expense of other characters. I can
> disregard the fact that they made Cho a traitor - she is not very
> important to the story. But Ron, Hermione and the Weasleys are too
> important to me, and I just can't accept such a major change in 
their
> characters.
>
Sartoris22:

I totally agree. I too hate it when they demean other characters for 
the sake of their version of the story. In most ways, Fred and George 
treat Harry much better than they do Ron, and always rush to Harry's 
support. Even before Harry gives them his Triwizard winnings, the 
Wesleys give Harry the Mauraders Map. And in the movies, they take 
away some of Hermione's emotionality for the sake of her cleverness. 
Although the scene in which she embraces Ron at Buckbeak's beheading 
is nice, in the book she cries in Ron's arms when he says that he'll 
help her with Buckbeak's appeal. It's a fairly long scene during 
which Hermione cries almost uncontrollably while Ron awkwardly pats 
her on the head. I think that scene is more revealing of the 
characters than the one in the movie. When Ron and Harry make up 
after the first task of the Triwizard Tournament, Hermione hugs them 
both then runs away in tears. She is much more emotional in the 
books, and I hope that HPB conveys more of that. However, we already 
know from the Entertainment Weekly story that Hermione doesn't attack 
Ron with birds after his and Lavender's initial snogfest, although 
she does cry in the scene. 

 



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