Book vs. Movie - Page 3

Any time movie.... gosh i cant read a complete book in even a month.... 😆

Movies give visual effects and action no doubt but at times books are much better e.g. De Vinci Code. There are a lot of people who will read the book first e.g. Harry Porter and then see the movie. I tend to see the movie and read the book later 😆

Books any day.

Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code are classic examples where the books beat the movies hollow. The absolute richness of detail that the books go into cannot ever be encompassed into a movie.

One point on Sirius not being "handsome enough" in the 3rd movie. Well, he was in Azkaban for thirteen years with Dementors! It would be unrealistic for a human to retain beauty under such conditions. Also, the older Sirius was NOT MEANT to be a Greek God; Harry describes his face as "wasted, and once handsome" at the same time when he dies during OoTP. So, I feel that Sirius was casted appropriately.

In fact, most of the casting of the HP movies was appropriate with the exception of Michael Gambon (the new Dumbledore) who was unable to match up to the late Richard Harris.

Originally posted by: T.

Books any day.

Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code are classic examples where the books beat the movies hollow. The absolute richness of detail that the books go into cannot ever be encompassed into a movie.

One point on Sirius not being "handsome enough" in the 3rd movie. Well, he was in Azkaban for thirteen years with Dementors! It would be unrealistic for a human to retain beauty under such conditions. Also, the older Sirius was NOT MEANT to be a Greek God; Harry describes his face as "wasted, and once handsome" at the same time when he dies during OoTP. So, I feel that Sirius was casted appropriately.

In fact, most of the casting of the HP movies was appropriate with the exception of Michael Gambon (the new Dumbledore) who was unable to match up to the late Richard Harris.

So true...So true....Richard Harris' portrayal of Dumbledore was very closely true to canon ...The twinkle in the eye,the benign smile,the good humoured quips and most importantly,the benevolent aura he exuded,which is ever so missing in Gambon's enactment...The new Dumbledore hardly ever smiles and is a bit grim and severe most of the times...

Passing on, I also wish Ginny(Bonnie Wright) was much more prettier, Draco(Tom Felton 😳 ) was less gorgeous 😳 and Harry(Dan Radcliffe) wasnt so pint-sized,slightly better looking and actually had green eyes and black hair...

Besides the Harry Potter franchise,another novel which was shoddily adapted to celluloid was "The Mistress of Spices" by Chitra Banerjee Divakurani...As a matter of fact,the book was only strictly passable,but the film was abysmal with a flavourless wishy washy Ash in the lead....One rare instant where I presonally enjoyed the film more than the paperback counterpart was "Chololat" by Joanne Harris...Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche simply scorched the screen 👏