I am so very disappointed in Hollywood and their inability
to do honor to certain books including Harry Potter. Let me start this out by
saying that by no means to I feel like I was deprived of a proper storytelling
when I watched the movies several years ago, that however doesn't change how
much I missed in simply watching the movie. J.K. Rowling spent a lot of time
describing the Dursley’s and who they were for a reason, however there was only
ten minutes of actual time spent on them in the movie. The same goes for Diagon
alley, this is an important place in the wizarding world, famous and
established. It is literally the only place you can go for Hogwarts supplies it
seems yet I have only seen a few minutes of the place in the movies.
I am enjoying this book so much as an adult I only wish that
my younger self had read the book before watching the movie because meaning of
people change. Even Neville Longbottom has greater importance in the book than
movies. There is so much that was changed in order to fill in time placements
but that doesn't excuse how much we miss as spectators instead of readers. I am
disappointed in how much I have missed out on, and also how much more I
understand about the Harry Potter world. I didn't even know that Hagrid had
been expelled from Hogwarts, I simply thought that’s where he ended up after he
graduated.
I feel movie makers should take more care when filming
because yes, you do want to tell a good story, but the movie is based on a book
with an already good story, so why change anything at all?
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