[HPforGrownups] Re: MOVIE: Comparisons

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 191119

Annemehr:
>In the movie, you get special effects.

Dave:
This, IMO, is the fundamental flaw in all the films.  Take Patroni 
for example: In PoA (and after) it's never made clear that Harry's 
Patronus is a stag (or why), nor in DH2 that Aberforth's is a 
goat.  All because the movie-makers insist on making Patroni these 
stupendous light shows that will inspire oooh's and ahhh's from the 
audience -- They think.


Annemehr:

>Well, I have some mixed feelings about the movies as a whole 
>(particularly PoA and GoF), but had been enjoying the last three very much.

Dave:
I think David Yates has overall done a much better job than any of 
his predecessors, but I agree he let us a bit down in the final 
Harry-LV confrontation.  BTW, how is Harry supposed to prove LV is 
truly dead if his body disintegrates?  And while I did enjoy watching 
him turn to "confetti", and imagine him in great pain as he did, I 
did have trouble resisting the urge to whisper under my breath: "'I'm 
melting, melting!  Oh, what a world, what a world!'"  :)


Annemehr:
>Actually, I don't even like that he snapped it in the movie. I don't 
>feel that the wand itself was evil, even though much evil was done 
>in pursuit of it. I much preferred the book version, where he 
>replaced it in Dumbledore's tomb. *Even* at the risk of Harry not 
>dying a natural death.

Dave:
I always liked the book version as well, especially in the way it 
(consciously?) parallels how Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes does 
essentially the same thing, and for the same reasons, with the Blue Carbuncle.

Dave