I another another HP question. In Order of the Phoenix, did they cut out the part of the prophecy about how it could have been Neville who was the chosen one? Because he was barely in this movie, and I wondered what role would be left for him in the final movie.
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Sue - Jul 17, 2009 7:31:06 am PDT #3066 of 30000
hip deep in pie
le nubian - Jul 17, 2009 7:50:30 am PDT #3067 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
no shit, Sue.
I was actually pretty pissed at the treatment of Neville. I think the character deserves a lot more respect than what he got in the movie. I really like Neville and felt for him as a result of book 5 and I feel like he was really mistreated in this movie - given future events.
Aims - Jul 17, 2009 7:53:42 am PDT #3068 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
ITA about Neville. A fraking WAITER?!?! What asshole did they pull that out of??
Kathy A - Jul 17, 2009 7:57:01 am PDT #3069 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yeah, that really ticked me off, too. Although JKR did give Neville short shrift in the HBP book, it wasn't quite that bad.
He was also in Slughorn's class, which is a big mistake in terms of Neville but was obviously just done to give him a few more seconds of airtime.
§ ita § - Jul 17, 2009 10:51:31 am PDT #3070 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Airbender live action/drawing comparison. Nice how Dev's playing the lightest-skinned of the 4.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2009 10:52:22 am PDT #3071 of 30000
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JZ - Jul 17, 2009 11:14:25 am PDT #3072 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Airbender live action/drawing comparison. Nice how Dev's playing the lightest-skinned of the 4.
Oh, the fail. Just looking at them makes me faintly sick with anger. And words cannot express how profoundly those last two in particular are NOT Katara or Sokka. I'm sure they're nice kids and fine actors, but they are fundamentally not those two characters.
Volans - Jul 17, 2009 11:19:31 am PDT #3073 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Airbender live action/drawing comparison.
This is going to be another one of those movie adaptations I have to pretend never happened, isn't it?
erikaj - Jul 17, 2009 11:24:11 am PDT #3074 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
He's got a nifty screenplay about Pablo Escobar, too. (No, that joke never gets old. Even for fandoms I don't know.)
Gris - Jul 17, 2009 12:01:15 pm PDT #3075 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I think HP6 was the most successful movie so far in terms of tone, and possibly the least successful in terms of story. I feel like there is so much book canon missing now that the last two movies will have to be severely retconned or flashbacked to make anything work quite right.
But thank god an HP movie was actually FUNNY! I laughed so much!
Movie!Ginny is very much not my Ginny though. Where's the fire of our fiery redhead?