Here is an interesting idea, that occurred to me.
Is there a difference between HP movief fanfic and HP book fanfic?
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CaBil - Dec 19, 2002 10:57:15 am PST #729 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 19, 2002 11:01:01 am PST #730 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
It's a good question: how different are the canons? I've seen the movie more recently- but when I've got to write futurefic, not really that big a help. I suppose if I call it movie canon, any mistakes I make out of ignorance can be put down to the....
I should try and find a way to bring Harry and Snape to Sunnydale, and slash them there, shouldn't I?
Dana - Dec 19, 2002 11:03:42 am PST #731 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Is there a difference between HP movief fanfic and HP book fanfic?
I don't think so, not really. The difference might be seen in visualizations of the characters. Rickman is older than Snape is, canonically.
Michele T. - Dec 19, 2002 11:05:21 am PST #732 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
In fact, if anything, the movies fail from being too slavishly faithful to the books.
askye - Dec 19, 2002 11:10:14 am PST #733 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I've read that the movies were as literal adaptations of the books as possible because the producers felt that was what kids wanted.
Anne W. - Dec 19, 2002 11:15:20 am PST #734 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
As a kid, I would have been seriously peeved by anything that wasn't a blow-by-blow adaptation of the book. I feel that the way Peter Jackson & Co. edited, adapted, and shuffled LotR was close to perfect. It acknowledged that film and book are two completely different media with different strengths and weaknesses.
Michele T. - Dec 19, 2002 11:15:33 am PST #735 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Shrug. Maybe it is what they wanted. Maybe it's what they want not knowing what the alternative is. (I mean, there are plenty of grumbly Tolkein geeks out there, but having re-read FOTR since seeing the movie, I'll admit that Jackson's a better storyteller than JRR was.) For me, though, the combination of the extremely literal adaptation and Chris Columbus's plodding directorial style made the movies into very lovely, very well-acted snores.
askye - Dec 19, 2002 11:31:59 am PST #736 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
Kids are incredibly picky. I know when I was a kid and I used to see adaptations of books I'd read over and over and over I would freak out "That's not how it goes. That's not right. They left that out. This is WRONG!"
And I think it comes down to the decision of who they wanted to please more with the Harry Potter movies---the kids who wanted to see everything as close to the book as humanly possible or the adults who wanted to see the best adaptation, even if that meant making more changes to the movie.
Steph L. - Dec 19, 2002 11:33:13 am PST #737 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Kids are incredibly picky. I know when I was a kid and I used to see adaptations of books I'd read over and over and over I would freak out "That's not how it goes. That's not right. They left that out. This is WRONG!"
I still do that...
askye - Dec 19, 2002 12:44:07 pm PST #738 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I have to admit I did it a bit during FoTR. "but..but...that's not how Merry and Pippin ACT...they aren't so...but...they are more..."
"where is the poetry. Where is Sam's love for the elves? How can he leave out that. Sam's journey and character development is key to the story!"
Um, I'm a little too invested in Samwise Gamgee. But not in a porny way.