tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442553345950023691.post8642749049755197655..comments2024-01-16T17:13:04.644-05:00Comments on Sorta That Guy: Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011)Ryan T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11249768784800120083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442553345950023691.post-50857302322190778382011-08-10T02:13:44.136-04:002011-08-10T02:13:44.136-04:00@Meltha - Thanks for your thoughts! Much appreciat...@Meltha - Thanks for your thoughts! Much appreciated! And I will read the books! I swear.Ryan T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11249768784800120083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442553345950023691.post-48871937483030608692011-08-04T20:36:35.954-04:002011-08-04T20:36:35.954-04:00Yea! I finally get to read reactions now!
I think...Yea! I finally get to read reactions now!<br /><br />I think some of the issues you discuss in this stem from a problem that all directors have to face when they're taking a book to the screen. Books are complex entities, and tomes of 500+ pages that need to be skinnied down into 2 and a half hours or less (give or take the credits) have to leave out a lot of stuff. It's always about subtracted the extraneous (though often wonderful) moments and trying to keep it to the moments needed for the plot structure. Added onto that, unless the director decides to have an audible internal monologue, the insights we get into why characters are doing things are a lot less clear.<br /><br />So... things like Ginnie/Harry (and I'm sorry, Bonnie is a lovely young actress, but this part never fit her after year one) are given more emphasis in the book, but did come out rather flat in the film. The Malfoys? Film both added and deleted stuff, including some interesting pieces of ambiguity (one of my favorites is Narcissa lies to say Harry is dead in order to thank him for giving her word of Draco, but at the same time scratches him with her fingernails... thanks for making playing dead that much harder, Narcissa). And then there's Dumbledore's kid sister, who I'd almost rather was left out in the film rather than alluded to so vaguely (whooooole big, complex, gray-toned story there). Same thing with Snape, who comes off as both more and less of a good guy in the books than in the films, as well as the epilogue, which is, I grant you, highly controvertial but I did appreciate the visual reference back to Harry's dream of a family in the Mirror of Erised, so I wasn't as horribly against it.<br /><br />Now... read the books so we can go into all the differences!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com