Characters acting OOC/Was:Rupert Grint

[sartoris22]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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I think that leaving out her hexing Ron with canaries is a good move
> on the filmmakers' part, assuming that they want the viewers's
> sympathies to be with her rather than Won Won.
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sartoris22:

But deleting the bird attack robs us of a wonderful moment in DH when 
Ron says, after Hermione's physical assault, "At least she didn't 
attack me with birds" (or something like that), and Hermione 
responds, "I haven't ruled that out." I take great pleasure in the way 
Rowling links previous scenes and dialogue, and by changing scenes and 
dialogue in the movies, we lose that. For example, we lose the fact 
that Hermione always uses Ron's words to atack or needle him, as when 
Hermione expresses surprise that Ron behaves well during the rescue of 
Harry scene in DH and Ron says grumpily, "always the note of surprise," 
and Hermione uses those same words when Ron compliments her at Fleur 
and Bill's wedding. Those touches of wordplay are delightful to me, and 
as important to Hermione's character as her intellect, insecurity, and 
emotion. By the way, I know that some people think that Columbus's 
faithful movie versions of the books are not very good (although I 
think history will be kinder to his adaptations), but is there a way to 
make great movies that are more faihful to the books, and was the 
solution to make most of books into two movies?
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