The movie adaptation of Rowling's second book in the HP series, was a little strange for me... I have made a list of the ups and downs of the movie (things I liked, and things that bothered me)
Like:
-the casting for this movie (and all HP movies) was great. Although, I think that the hair & makeup people should have teased Emma Watson's hair a bit more to make it look like the description of Hermione in the books. The Weasley's looked spectacular. Ron and his family all have the flaming red hair. It was brilliant!
-The setting. I think that for the first two movies, the brightly lit rooms and colorful props were very appropriate. I noticed that with the original director, the HP movies had a little more feel of happiness. When the director changed, the movies became a little darker and more sinister looking (which would be appropriate because the series also changes in regards to overall mood).
-The score. I absolutely LOVE the Harry Potter movies score. I actually like it so much that I have it on my ipod...ehh don't tell anyone, thats kind of embarrassing... I love the fact that it has a mixture of happy and upbeat segments and slower more mysterious segments. If you research the soundtracks of each of the HP movies you will notice that though the HP theme score remains the same, there are various changes within the song that adapt it to each movie.
Dislike:
-The special effects. Okay, so it is true that this movie was made a while back when special effects had not completely evolved to what they are now, and also, there was a different director. Still, I can't help but cringe at the cheesiness of some of the special effects. I guess it bothers me because I have watched the Harry Potter movies backwards, and I'm used to the intense graphics and special effects that the later movies have.
-Snape's hair. BLECHH!! In the book, Snape was always described as having long black curtains of hair that covered his face most of the time. Also, in the books, Snape has a mustache and a little goatee. I like how Snape's movie character has evolved over the years, however. His hair is now much longer and greasier looking, which is more appropriate for his character.
-All the parts that were left out! I understand that many of them are not important to push the plot forward, but still!!
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It completely drives me CRAZY that they didn't emphasize Hermoine's hair more in any of the movies!!!! It's so much a part of her and who she is as a character in the story, that not playing to that is very disappointing.
There are also a few things that they decided to do in the movies that COULD HAVE BEEN DONE had they wanted to. I understand that sometimes certain things just don't translate well from book to film, but at the same time, that doesn't mean they need to change certain details about the book....
We're getting ready to go in to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON and it's COMPLETELY different from the book. I watched a video where Cressida Cowell talks about the major changes from the book to the movie and she says she was just so excited that they were making a movie from her books that she just stood back and enjoyed the process.
I understand where she's coming from and I know that as an audience that's what I need to do....everyone DOES have his/her own personal interpretation of stories and how they should appear, but it's still disappointing when certain details/features are completely different from the story when there's no real need for the changes.....
At least they got GONE WITH THE WIND right.....I try to remind myself of that....oh, and IVANHOE the movie is just as good as IVANHOE the book as is THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL--in fact, I actually love the movie version of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL more!!!
I think this is the video with Cressida Cowell talking about the movie version of her Hiccup story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O8IYkJtgeQ
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