HP and the Hollywood Script Writers

[cactuswatcher]

I got to see the latest HP flick yesterday. I have to say that it was a fun film. The abridgement to squeeze the 850+ page novel into a 2:20 minute film was at times ingenious. At other times you have to wonder why so many small details were changed for no apparent reason. Why have Dudley and Harry attacked in an underground passage? If the Ministry of Magic can detect minors doing magic anywhere at any time, why can't they detect Lord V doing the same? The attack should have been out in the open where people could see it! Why other than to entertain kids in the audience were the broom-fliers buzzing boats on the Thames? In the book they were hiding themselves from muggles with spells at the time. No time for that in the movie? The most obvious of these questions was why was the lovable, clumsy 'freak', Tonks turned into a graceful hottie? Luna was too cute as well, although the actress did a fine job of portraying the strange girl with the time she had on screen. I was not as pleased with the portrayal of Umbridge as some were. I felt in reading the book that her smile was less frequent, often unpleasant in appearance and mostly smug in nature, where as in the movie it was almost constant, cheerful appearing and mostly sadistic in nature.

I liked the movie, but perhaps it should have been titled Larry Porter and the Order of Scottsdale: A Film Vaguely Based On a Book by J K Rowling, With the Author's Approval.

Comments

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

Possibly, but the indication in the series seems to be that Hogwarts students are instantly monitored by this magic. Monitoring everyone might be a different story, not to mention the fact that there is corruption at the Ministry- Lucius Malfoy, for example.