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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:50:38 -0500
I've had a few conversations recently with people after we all saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2 about some of the differences between the movie and the book. Some of the most interesting observations are from people who have not read the books and only seen the movies.
One person shared the response of someone who knows HP only from the movies and said he had a really hard time with Dumbledore's character because he seemed to be so mean in the recent movies. Another after watching the most recent movie thought that Snape--based on the flashback sequence--was Harry's father.
And I thought how true it is that if you only have seen the movies you miss so many of the complexities of characters and interactions. Dumbledore does get darker as the stories progress, I think in part because he hates the burden he has to put on Harry as it draws closer. And I think that in both the movie (and even to some extent the books), Harry's father is fairly easy to dismiss. (In the movie, he just smiles a lot when the characters is seen--Lily gets to actually speak and interact with Harry).
I found myself really upset at one point during the recent movie after Harry told Ron and Hermione to kill the snake. "But wait!" I thought. "He tells Neville to kill the snake in the book. And Neville has to kill the snake because Neville is the other person whom the prophecy could have been about. IThis is so wrong!" I was relieved that it was, indeed, Neville who finally killed the snake, but really--I'm sure I missed part of the battle of Hogwarts obsessing over that.
I'm curious how many of you know kids or adults who know HP ONLY from the movies, and how well you think the movies do at conveying the FACTS of the story--the elements of the plot and interactions required to make sense of what has happened.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Tue 26 Jul 2011 08:50:38 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:50:38 -0500
I've had a few conversations recently with people after we all saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2 about some of the differences between the movie and the book. Some of the most interesting observations are from people who have not read the books and only seen the movies.
One person shared the response of someone who knows HP only from the movies and said he had a really hard time with Dumbledore's character because he seemed to be so mean in the recent movies. Another after watching the most recent movie thought that Snape--based on the flashback sequence--was Harry's father.
And I thought how true it is that if you only have seen the movies you miss so many of the complexities of characters and interactions. Dumbledore does get darker as the stories progress, I think in part because he hates the burden he has to put on Harry as it draws closer. And I think that in both the movie (and even to some extent the books), Harry's father is fairly easy to dismiss. (In the movie, he just smiles a lot when the characters is seen--Lily gets to actually speak and interact with Harry).
I found myself really upset at one point during the recent movie after Harry told Ron and Hermione to kill the snake. "But wait!" I thought. "He tells Neville to kill the snake in the book. And Neville has to kill the snake because Neville is the other person whom the prophecy could have been about. IThis is so wrong!" I was relieved that it was, indeed, Neville who finally killed the snake, but really--I'm sure I missed part of the battle of Hogwarts obsessing over that.
I'm curious how many of you know kids or adults who know HP ONLY from the movies, and how well you think the movies do at conveying the FACTS of the story--the elements of the plot and interactions required to make sense of what has happened.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Tue 26 Jul 2011 08:50:38 AM CDT
