30 Days of Harry Potter: Day Three

[rogueslayer452]

Day 3 - Is there any of the films adaptations that have made you angry because they’ve ignored important parts of the book?

Not particularly, since I view the movies on a different and separate level from the books.

Because the entire world of Harry Potter is so thoroughly rich and elaborate, it's nearly impossible to have everything included to make everyone happy. Someone somewhere is going to be complaining about something in regards to the films. Certain scenes are left out, filmed but cut out for time, shifts and changes from the books in places, not preferred casting choices, etc. I understand the frustrations fans have for leaving stuff out and yes there are things I wished they could have included from the books in the films, but I can also understand why they would leave things out from a production perspective. So to answer the question, I have been less than impressed on specific directorial/editing decisions or an overall view, but not outright angry.


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[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

They tried getting Daniel Radcliffe to wear colored contacts in the first film, but it irritated his eyes so they couldn't. Now people say that they could just CGI his eyes, but I think that's too much time and energy, not to mention money, over his freaking eyes.

Still, the importance is that he has his mother's eyes. From the films, both Daniel and the actress playing his mother have blue eyes, therefore it still holds the same significance. Color is kind of irrelevant, imo.

I guess I just never really understood all the nitpicking people do over the littlest of things. But then again, I accept the movies and the books to be two separate entities altogether. Comparing the two is kind of ridiculous because, as I mentioned in the post, someone somewhere is going to complain and nitpick about something. I find it less of a hassle to view the movies through a microscope in seeing what things they got right from the books and what they didn't. I can accept changes because not everything is going to be included, not everything is going to be exactly how I envisioned it.

But I'm not a film-student, so I don't have that kind of a critical eye. *shrugs*

[forwardish]

I get you on the eye thing.
I never really cared that much, like I said until they kept talking about it.

I feel for Daniel though, I didn't actually remember that, although now that you mention it I remember reading that like, A ZILLION YEARS AGO when the movies were first out and such. I can't wear contacts because of irritation too, so I understand that.

PFFT, CGIing his eyes is just DUMB and EXPENSIVE...

I guess I just never really understood all the nitpicking people do over the littlest of things.

Like I said, I felt the exact same way until GoF.
I don't know, it flipped a switch or something?

And actually, with HBP and with Deathly Hallows I didn't have anything to nitpick really. I think I get passionate about Goblet of Fire because of what was going on around the time it came out I had all these strong feelings about it. I was very very heavily involved in HP fandom at the time, I was a film student (like, specifically film, my program now is much much broader) and analyzing everything, and it's my favorite HP book.