A concern about the Harry Potter series -?

Question

I kind of mean the movie series here.
Well, I've kinda grown up reading the Potter series and I absolutely love it. I mean, the book has been great inspiration for me during the years, but I must honestly say I hate the movie series.

I want to know if anyone else feels that they've put wrong faces on the characters of the book? Not only that, but they've kind of set up Hogwarts and everything else and I just never see the faces I saw when reading the book. I mean, I honestly think that the actors/actresses are pretty good, but they're just not the characters. Sorry, but especially Watson and the new Dumbledore. I loved the previous one because he was everything that I saw in Dumbledore. But overall, basically, I just hate how they put these faces on the characters and how they've kind of destroyed the book/s. Everyone I know is like I LOVE HARRY POTTER and then I ask, the books or movies, and they say movies.

Can anyone else relate to this because it kinda upsets me.

Answer 1

I see what you mean....but I think everyone sees them differently. I think it's up to your imagination. As for the Christian girl....They are just books made solely for entertainment purposes. If you see them as some devil bible or something, you more issues then praying can take care of. Doctors call this paranoid schizophrenia. And I do believe that the Harry Potter books are on the national banned books list for schools. So I don't think they are reading them in school.

Answer 2

the movies do kinda ruin the perspective that some people like yourself have of the characters and settings from the books. i like the movies. i think that they were well done, but there are major plot errors. u have to understand that the books are so long that if they were to include everything in the movies they would be 6 to 12 hours long at least. nobody could accurately display all the character traits that the characters in Harry Potter do. the books are fantasy, fictional, therefore they can't be accurately displayed. i like the movies but compared to the books they suck. the sixth and seventh movies will be worse because the main actors (Daniel, Rupert, and Emma) are believed to be getting to old for the parts. The new Dumbledore is playing the part wrong. my opinion of Dumbledore from the books is a combination of both movie Dumbledores. the description in the books depicts him as old and calm like the first one, but also agile and forceful like the second one. the goblet of fire was the worst movie, they completely left out Dobby and Winky, Ludo Bagman, and Bertha.
By the way the release date for the seventh book is July 21, 2007
if u didn't already know.

Answer 3

yes i relate. completely.

movies one and two were so stale and flat, that even though the background and costumes were nice, they couldn't spark any life into the movies. at least they were fairly faithful to the books though... 3 i thought was best in terms of editing the story and having a flowing nature to it..but i did not really like Lupin, nor the way the Dementors looked.

emma watson is certainly cute, but it disappoints me that it seems the director or whoever did not read all the 3 books that were out at the time in order to cue the later story lines.. such as hermione being funny looking so that she would make more of an impact in movie #4.

i was ok with dumbledore #1.. however i felt Gandalf in LOTR woudlve been a much better fit! also, dumbledore #2 was HORRIBLE and ruined movie #4. i also didn't like how they depicted fleur delacour, nor viktor krum.

sigh.. i really hope #5 is good...

Answer 4

yeah, i can totally relate to this. i mean, the actors on harry potter movies arent even half as good as they should be to be half as good as i want them to be! and i notice sometimes that daniel's eyes are blue, but in the book, it is heavily emphasized that they are GREEN. and yes, they have put the wrong faces on some of the characters. neville had a round face in the first few movies, but now, he just looks really nerdy with a thin face and teeth that stick out at right angles to his face. the umbridge that i saw in some pics really looks nothing at all alike to the umbridge that i pictured when i was reading book 5. i think that they should have picked someone flabbier and meaner looking. and whats up with luna? in the book, it said that she was supposed to be sort of crazy looking with wide open eyes, but the person they cast looks rather sane and sleepy eyed. besides, she is way too pretty to be luna. in the back cover of book five, there was a drawing of lupin. that picture looks nothing at all like the lupin they cast. on the other hand, i think that the people in charge of casting did a good job with lucius, mcgonagall, voldemort,snape, cedric and draco(sigh). lucius really seems evil. ive read all the released books no less then ten times each and i think that they should'nt've cut or added so much to or from the movies. in the fourth book, the dragon did not break free, hermione did not hug harry and a billion other things beside. also, i think that they did a very poor job of casting fleur. sure, the actress was pretty, but not in the way that i imagined fleur to be. by the way, i think that when madam maxime picked something off hagrids beard and ate it was way disgusting.

Answer 5

I don't like the movies either. 1 and 2 were okay, but those new directors screwed it up. I mean a CLOCK TOWER? And then, in 4, they had Cho all wrong, and they rushed through it, and they didn't have SPEW and Dumbledore made his beard into a pony tail, and he yelled at Harry (he's supposed to be a calm person!)Voldemort didn't look right, and they skipped all of JKs beautiful plot details so Myrtle could visit Harry in his bath for a never ending scene!!!!!!

So sorry. I just really hate the movies.

Answer 6

The problem I have with the movies is the way they have changed Hogwarts. I liked the first Dumbledore, but the actor who portrayed him died & they had to find another.
The other thing is, not everyone is going to like the casting because everyone who reads the books will picture the characters differently. I think they have done the best they could with characters.
The books are so well written & the images & characters are so vivid that we can actually see them. That is what makes them so fun to read. That is what makes reading so much fun.

Answer 7

I like everyone except the new Dumbledore, who is a fine actor but is playing the character COMPLETELY wrong. The real Dumbledore should be mellow and sort of amused and calm all the time, not all overreacting and yelling. The worst scene was when Harry's name came out of the Cup in Goblet of Fire, and Dumbledore shoved him against the glass case and was yelling at him. Totally out of character.

Answer 8

Try Robert Asprin's "Another Fine Myth." His explanations of how magic works is a lot better than Rowling's or most writers out there. The books are fun, light and an easy read. For epic adventures involving kids in a magical setting, try Suzanne Collin's "Gregor The Overlander" series.

Answer 9

I agree with you. I do enjoy watching the movies, but I'd choose the books anyday. The books are far better than the movies, of course, every book is better than the movie in my opinion. And I agree, the cast of Harry Potter isn't even near the best that it could be. So don't worry, I choose the books over the movies!

Answer 10

I think they did a good job picking the actors/actresses for the parts....except for the new Dumbledore,I liked the one that was in the first two movies better.