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As an antidote to a lot of the anti-film threads recently, what do you think the films did really well in adapting or expanding on the books? 100% Upvoted
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The casting on most characters was amazing. Especially Mcgongall, Snape, and Umbridge!


Yes! I totally agree.

ps. I saw the Mcgonagall actress in another film and she was friendly with another character called dolores. Everything she said seemed so wrong. (I'm so glad you're here dolores! Things like that)


Haha that would feel very wrong! What was the program?


I believe it was sister act II.




They are wonderful movies. Incredible. I do not agree with all of their decisions but I think that they only come up short when compared to the vast source material that they are pulling from. For what they are, brief adaptations of, for the majority of the series, extremely expansive books, they get the job done. I would have loved to see all of the little scenes that really make the books so great, but I understand that a film can't really stick that close to its source material.

5 points · 2 years ago

The "tale of the three brothers" scene.

Potions Master

I think most of the action scenes are amazing in the movies. Also I think they did a good job making Umbridge hate-able in the movies

Ra-Ra-Ravenclaw Roma Ro Mama - Got your bad Clawmance

I really love the deleted scene in Deathly Hallows between Petunia and Harry. "You didn't just lose a mother that night.....I lost a sister."

Really touched my heart.

Knitting does not count towards my transfiguration grade.

I kinda like how they did Fenrir. Looks wise anyway, they kinda dropped a lot of his scary actions.

wit beyond measure

Even though it's pretty different than the books- (& also better in the books) I LOVED being able to watch the scene where Fred & George terrorise Umbridge with the fireworks & Weasley products!


That Harry-Hermione dancing scene makes me feel stuff my own life has never made me feel.


I'm going to preface this with I don't like the movies. I haven't even seen all 8, but I did not care for those I had seen.

I think they did a phenomenal job with the movies. Probably close to the best job that could be done. The casting was incredible, so many characters were pretty much spot on, Umbridge, Snape, McGonnagall, and so many others. Such good choices. Most (definitely not all) of the changes are just the types of changes you need to make when adapting books to film. They are different mediums and have different needs. The set designs were amazing, I could go on and on, these movies did almost everything right.

But they are and always will be a vastly inferior means of ingesting these stories, which is why I haven't seen them all, and why I didn't enjoy any of the ones I did.


I'm not trying to defend the movie makers, but look at it this way: An author has the liberty to pen down any and every piece of their weird imagination on paper. But imagine the nightmare an Animation Designer or Visual Artist has to undergo to bring that on to the screen!

I mean its easy to say that I met a three-headed dog guarding a trap-door and for you to imagine it, but for the animation team, its no less than a big challenge. Now, imagine the difficulty in projecting things like goblins, Voldemort, dragons, Quidditch (that was one of the most awesome projections, btw), werewolves and hippogriffs! Its no wonder that they are criticized, because at this scale, it is almost impossible to achieve the same perfection in projecting stuff that the author has imagined.

-2 points · 3 years ago

Honestly, I think the movie did the battle for Hogwarts, Harry dying, Neville's speech, and the final confrontation with Voldemort much better than the books.



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