POA - Book vrs movie

[Jospehine]

No: HPFGUIDX 100254

Larry "Damit Lazarus" <lkotur at y...> wrote:
<snip>
> My question and concern is:  As the Books get longer and more 
> detailed, will Warner Brothers turn Harry into a cartoonish character 
> and make the remaining movies look like highlight news reels. <snip>   
> The first two books were "reproduced" on film to satisfy most "book" 
> fans.  The two remaining books are too complicated to put in a simple 
> 2 hour 20 minute film. <snip>  As fans of the books, should the movies 
> capture the story of the books or would "poetic license" with the story 
> upset book fans?



Jospehine now:

*sigh* This is really the age old question of whether we should read 
the books first, or see the movies first. As an avid reader, and as 
most people on this site a stupidly obsessed fan of the HP books, I 
find it ridiculously easy to rip apart the films. I am the one who 
complains loudly at the end of the movie while walking back to the 
car, and during it screams in pain when I see Harry sitting on a rock 
crying in full view of his friends. The loud *tuts* from the front 
row... That's me! 

But we, on this site, are of the few and far between. My husband has 
seen all three films, without even picking up a HP book. And he 
thinks they are great. He sees them for what they are, wheras we see 
the missing components that make the HP series so compulsive. My 
husband thinks I'm nuts to want to discuss the books in such detail, 
to theorise and ponder. But as someone who has only seen the film 
versions he doesn't understand! (As she shouts from the rooftops!!!)

He doesn't need the long details and the more complicated plot that 
the books offer to be jammed into the movie. He would be bored. And 
he would be confused (bless him!). If he was made to sit through a 
fully comprehensieve version of GOF I would never hear the end of it. 
The films are for the masses, the books are for those who love to 
read and fill their minds with imagination. WB does not make the 
movies for us book readers. They are making them for the general 
public to introduce them in someway to the world of Harry Potter. And 
no, some people will never understand...

In my opinion, don't let the 'threadbare' movies ruin the way you 
feel towards HP. The best movies are the words that make pictures in 
our heads.

Josephine