Harry Potter
Posted on December 13, 2001 @ 09:04 in General
I went to see the Harry Potter movie last night and I was pleasantly surprised, just like when reading the books. I started reading the books and went to the movie rather critically, slightly put off by all the hype, but since several friends whom I trust said it was good, I figured I'd have to give it a try anyway.
I enjoyed the movie with the books in mind and during the movie it was a constant 'ah, cool, there's that' and 'oh, okay, so they left that out.' I'm not sure how good the movie is if you haven't read the books. Like the books the movie focuses on Harry and his friends in a world filled with details and the story line (the quest or intrigue) plays a slightly subordinate role. This is changing in the later books and the story line becomes more important, which is also why I think the books are getting thicker and thicker... Rowling still needs to fill in all those details, the whole Potter and his friends tale next and on top of the now more important story line. The movie was very much in line with the book in that the story line about the philosopher's stone was (or seemed) subordinate to the tale of Harry arriving in the world of magic.
The book of course has much more space for dropping clues, spending a line or two here and there on the story line, keeping the reader informed. Having read the books I can fill in what is left out in the movie and that's why I wonder how I'd appreciate it if I hadn't. In any case, the visuals are stunning (I want to see Quidditch matches every weekend!) and the characters much like you'd expect them to (but Hagrid's accent should have been much, much worse) and all the details are there. If anything, seeing the Potter movie now kind of prepared me for The Lord of the Rings movie, after a book that's even more obsessively filled with detail, but which, in my opinion, has a stronger and maybe clearer story line than the sort of episodic story lines in Harry Potter.
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