Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

When making a book into a film, the text is never sacred - and the HP films are significantly closer to the books than most adaptations. You may not like it, but that's how these things work and always have done. A direct translation of a 600+ page book to a 2-3 hour film is simply not possible. And it would be crushingly dull if it was attempted. The two genres live and breath in parity - distinctly different tellings of the same story. If you're a 'purist' with a book, it's always a bad idea to see a film. They're not 'dumbed down', they slimmed down to a visual (rather than literary) art form with a distinct time limit and specfic pacing requirement. The only people slating these films (it seems to me) are the 'hardcore' book purists. The same happened with Lord of the Rings. The same happened with Interview with the Vampire. It's the nature of things, and if you're one of those people who thinks the details in the books are untouchable, you should probably avoid such re-tellings.

If you're going to use that argument, there's a reason the films have done so well. ;)Really? I'm pretty sure on some podcast I listened to a couple of years ago (sorry I can't be more specific :o) she said that whilst she wasn't involved in the process, she had a contractual veto on such issues. The conversation was in the context of them wanting to remove the character of Kreacher from OOTP, and her stopping them doing so.

I'm ready to be corrected, of course.
 
LOL see now i think my accent is boring, i dont even think i have an accent :D

Ah i like the southern accent, do you sound like a farmer or Londoner? :D

A long time then :eek: You need to get out there now! LOL is that your little uni phrase ;) :D
 
I can't honestly seeing it making that much of a difference in terms of the amount of money it will bring in - surely just as many people would see it over Christmas as over the summer? I think you're right (whoever said it) that they want a successful film for the next financial year after the strike, but releasing a date and then postponing it by so much a week after the date is released (if you can untangle that sentence!) seems a bit WTF to me.
 
YOU'RE God!! :eek::eek::eek:
Well I'm a bit started after reading that...but I'm fine thankou!!:D:D

This forum neeRAB some more ladies....tis smelling too much of lynx on here lol ;);)
 
Oh my precious... :o



That was the perfect trailer for me, didn't spoil much but gave enough away to make me even more desperate to see it!
 
positive! :p:p

I did buy the album for my friend at christmas so I contributed in that way :)

I hardly buy albums anymore...I just listen to whatever's on my ipod and listen to the rest on the tinternet :D:D
 
I've read it at least 4 times :eek:
I read it the day it came out (I finished at like 11pm and had a killer headache)
Then I re-read all of them to see the links JK had throughout all the books
Then I read the last two (as they are my favourite)
Then I re-read all of them again

Don't worry I also read other books not just HP but I'm struggling atm to fit in reading with all my homework and revision - I've got at least 10 books waiting to be read.

So if you have any other questions about HP I'm happy to answer them. Like I said I've read DH 4 times so I have no idea how many times I have read the others as everytime a new book came out I would read all of the previous ones, then the new one and then re-read all of them to see the links - wow that makes me sound so sad :o
 
Morning All!
And i didn't even notice! And Emma Watson is what i normally look out for! See that just proves how amazing the trailer was :D




Well by the looks of it Lisa, he hasn't put the ring on then by that point so he wouldn't have a black hand so i'm thinking its part of a memory, when he finRAB the ring perhaps!
 
That's it though, isn't it j24? It's like reading the books - desperate to read
them through to know what happens, but desperate to not get to the end!



ps Thanks LL!
 
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