ChildWild: Harry Potter and the Half-Asleep Moviegoer
Cos
· 5 months ago
I just saw it tonight, and also learned of the existence of the Where The Wild Things Are movie from the previews.
I think the Harry Potter movies are getting progressively better than the books as the get into later volumes. The first couple of them I seem to remember just felt like pretty good translations of the books into film; this movie was clearly a movie in its own right. I mentioned this to a friend I saw it with, and she said it may be because the books got longer and longer, to the point where the movies could no longer just be fanfic because they couldn't fit the whole book and they'd displease people if that's all they tried to do, so now they have to be something more.
I particularly liked the way they were able to *show* us things the books couldn't quite, like nonverbal communication & the development of relationships in physical space, and things like quidditch games. Lots of good facial expressions and funny things dropped in.
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I think the Harry Potter movies are getting progressively better than the books as the get into later volumes. The first couple of them I seem to remember just felt like pretty good translations of the books into film; this movie was clearly a movie in its own right. I mentioned this to a friend I saw it with, and she said it may be because the books got longer and longer, to the point where the movies could no longer just be fanfic because they couldn't fit the whole book and they'd displease people if that's all they tried to do, so now they have to be something more.
I particularly liked the way they were able to *show* us things the books couldn't quite, like nonverbal communication & the development of relationships in physical space, and things like quidditch games. Lots of good facial expressions and funny things dropped in.