#books vs movies

[izzyartcraze]

harry and ginny being a quidditch power couple

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long time no see, tumblr ;) guess what i just reread

#harry potter #ginny weasley #harry james potter #harry x ginny #ginny potter #the order of the phoenix #books vs movies #the sorcerer's stone #the philosopher's stone #quidditch #my fanart #fan art #fandom #fanart #harry potter fanart #harry and ginny #harry potter fandom #jk rowling

[oxydiane]

movie harry: no you’ve made a mistake i mean i can’t be a wizard i’m just harry

book harry: this is literally a mistake because i haven’t been able to turn my asshole aunt and uncle into warty toads even ONCE

#he heard abt voldemort and immediately went no it’s all a lie why didn’t my magic help me have a little less miserable life #bcs the more powerful magic oldman wanted you to be miserable haz #it’s ok now just seven ish more years of hell and then you can go to therapy #harry my darling #harry potter #philosopher’s stone #sorcerer’s stone #harry james potter #hjp #books vs movies

[geeky-fuckery]

#LOTR #lotr humor #Legolas #books vs movies

[capriddle]

One thing I hate about the films (yet another) is the way they dismiss Bellatrix's doubts about Snape. In the book Bellatrix asks a series of perfectly sensible questions and, in fact, if they had listened to her, Snape and Dumbledore's plan would have failed. In the film the scene is brutally cut and Bellatrix doesn't ask any questions, passing as a jealous person who doubts more out of envy. Sure Bellatrix was angry that Snape had been forgiven, but her questions, her doubts, her doubts were legitimate, so legitimate that she was right and she was the only person who understood Snape's true side. I find her a big miss in the film because she was clear proof of Bellatrix's intelligence, but no, yet another cut.

#bellatrix black #bellatrix #bellatrix lestrange #dark love #severus snape #snape #halfbloodprince #harry potter book #books vs movies

[justmeandmyships]

When Laurie told Amy it was strange to hear one of Marmee's daughter talking about wanting to marry with a rich man and Amy answered a simple and yet effective "I know" It speaks volumes to me more than the whole speech of "marriage is an economic proposition". Some things don't need to be said. Some things are louder with silence. That's what Amy did. She knew Laurie couldn't understand why she was taking that decision. Even if she tried to explain, even if HE TRIED, he wouldn't understand. Bc was something that a man from that time would never get. That "I know," says nothing but so much

#amy x laurie #amy & laurie #Amy and Laurie #little Women #good wives #books #books vs movies #little women 2019

[therealvinelle]

What do you think the movies got right about twilight

Volterra is depicted as being in Italy

Forks, too, looks exactly how I imagined it

The films are set in 2005, just as in the books

There are six Cullens and they all have the right names and hair color (Esme post-New Moon excepted)

Put this way, you could argue the movies got a lot of things right.

That being said, I'm not a fan and find them to be a different canon than the books, and the nicest thing I can say is that they were exactly what the fans wanted, so good on the creators.

(Correction: there are seven Cullens, I just can’t count.)

#books vs movies #twilight #twilight renaissance #twilight movies

[ispeacetoomuchtoaskfor]

do you ever get just a little annoyed because people seem to ignore the books in fanfiction or is that just me?

it was Narnia this time, i have yet to find a fanfic with more than a subtle nod to the books.

i just want Susan/Caspian with the books and Peter and Caspian being friends and Caspian having known about the Narnians still living plz just look at book canon for a moment i am B E G G I N G

#books vs movies #narnia susan #narnia #narnia books #narnia movies #the chronicles of narnia #narnia caspian #susan pevensie #caspian x #prince caspian #susan x caspian #caspian x susan #suspian #i am begging #please #please for only one fic can i find just one with book canon

[what-fandom-again]

Here's a thought

So the book before movie industry....not that great isn't it?

Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, the Hunger games....their movies weren't as good weren't they?

And I'm with you. I agree with the "Book over movie" side.

But I truly, truly, believe that good omens is one of few examples where the filmed remake is just ad good, if not better than the original. Not only did David Tennant and Michael Sheen portray their characters stunningly, but there's so much....more to it.

The book, in my opinion, was hard to follow with all the random details that seemed unnecessary to the original story. Granted, that is the experience of books, but it just felt like too much for me. The show had a cleaner follow through, explaining what needed to be said. That and the fact that I don't recall it having any flashbacks or details of the relationship of Crowley and Aziraphale.

The show focuses more on the characters and their relationships. It shows the Canon and explains what happens. Plus it's simply hilarious to see David act as drunk Crowley.

Good Omens is one of the few books I've heard of with a good filmed version.

The show also has sequels lmao

#books #tv shows #movies #books vs movies #good omens #mini rant #david tennant #michael sheen

[acewardcullen]

Which do you prefer

#polls #twilight saga #books vs movies

[just-a-girl-who-likes-sharks]

Spoilers for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie

I just watched the movie and after finishing my reread of the book this morning, here are my thoughts

The casting is immaculate. It is literal perfection, every single one of them

I don’t like how they changed the prize for the mentor whose tribute won the Hunger Games. In the book there were two prizes and in the movie there was only the Plinth prize

I don’t like how we never find out what happened to Clemmie after she got bitten by Dr Gaul’s snakes. In the book we got a whole storyline with it, but the movie gave us nothing

The covey was practically ignored in the movie and that’s such a shame because they were so amazing in the book

I loved how the songs were interpreted in the movie, reading them in the book they were meh but the way Rachel Zegler sang was just perfect

I loved how the movie was cut in three acts, just like the book

I loved how they yassified the Academy uniforms, slay, Coriolanus. Slay.

During Sejanus’s execution, playing the jaberjay recording that incriminated him as he was hanged gave me literal chills

I loved how the changed the arena in the movie

I didn’t like how most tributes in the movie died differently than in the book, it doesn’t make any sense to change it

I loved how they changed the way Reaper collected the bodies of those that had died, mostly the way he tore down the flag of Panem, much better than how it happened in the book

The District 12 storyline felt rushed in the movie. In the book they spend weeks there, in the movie it was a couple of days

The way they changed how Coriolanus was able to take the officer exam was so confusing in the movie, it kinda just happened rather than having him study for the test after Sejanus bargained for Coriolanus to get his diploma after he was kicked out of the Academy without getting it. It just felt a little weird and rushed

I hate that they skipped all the private teaching moments between Dr Gaul and Coriolanus. In the book there’s this whole essay he needs to write about control, chaos and contract and all of that was skipped in the movie. That part of the book was what made the ending make sense when Dr Gaul pulled him from the Districts so he could study under her in the Capitol

I hate how they didn’t mention all the other changes Coriolanus brought to the Games, things we know will happen later because of the original movies like the victor’s village and the parcels of food for the victor’s entire District. All of that came from Coriolanus and the movie doesn’t mention it

I hate how the movie doesn’t mention that every single copy of the 10th Hunger Games has been destroyed so that no one will ever be able to see them again

I loved how they portrayed Tigris in the movie

Finally, I know this is a movie and so we don’t have Coriolanus’s inner monologue, but still, without it, he almost came across like a victim of circumstances rather than the psychopath we know he is from the book

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #bosas #bosas spoilers #hunger games #the hunger games #movie #movie review #film review #books vs movies #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #tigris snow #suzanne collins

[castingmysilver]

I think with LOTR films versus books, while I used to be a very aggressive book purist towards the original Trilogy of films, it's genuine mixed mileage for me now?

I am still deeply sad about their characterization choice for Faramir. We *got* that character arc already, it was his older brother, *he* needed to be the strength and virtue and proof it's even possible for a mortal to be uninterested in the Ring's temptations.

I kinda miss the weird magic of the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil, and the backstory on Merry's blade: but I get it now that most people wouldn't have had the patience for that runtime.

The Scouring being skipped has gone from something that I think sucks completely to "that sure is an interesting thematic choice in interpretation."

But one thing I *like*?

*Arwen.*

Glorfindel is a cool guy but he wasn't even relevant to the core plot of the trilogy! He was a shout-out to the deeper value of the legendarium! An Easter egg!

Arwen is a key motivating force for heroic Aragorn and also a symbol of the turnover in the Ages of the world, but in the book she *barely* puts in an appearance. It *bloody well matters* to me that they both decided to expand on one of the very rare visible female characters around, and give further reasonable characterization to both this key figure, and by proxy her love. She goes from a cameo to being a shining source of pure beauty and a recurring dream of desire, who has hopes and dreams and fears and pressure from family obligations of her own, who chooses hope in the face of despair on the behalf of the next generation, and who is also a competent baddass for at least one scene who you can *believe* is the heir of both Luthien who she is repeatedly compared to and who defied fucking Satan Boss Of The Dark Lord to his face, and grandma Galadriel queen-adjacent ruler of the Golden Wood, one of the three great bastions of Elvish magic power in the world, known as Nerwen/Man-maiden for her love of boyish sports in her youth.

Yes, Luthien and Galadriel's heir *would* go riding out to fetch back the Ringbearer, defy a goddamn undead king while drawing a sword on him, and activate a semi-sentient elemental protection spell! *Yes* the granddaughter of Galadriel, who refused ultimate power and offered to become small and weak to preserve the world she loved, would turn away from her only chance to reunite with her mother and her kin and keep immortality for the chance to see a brief shining moment of love and new life in the future!

Please pump this baddass yet femme interpretation directly into my veins.

I won't forgive how they made my golden boy turn into a conniving bastard for a hot minute just from getting in the Ring's radius, but Arwen Undomiel?? You did good, PJ. You did good.

#in which silver has opinions #tolkien #lotr #books vs movies #arwen undomiel #character interpretation

[oxydiane]

movie ron: i’ll heh go easy on you. even though you have consistently showed us how proficient you are at spellcasting and how hyper confident you are at magic. i’m the Man so i’ll go easy, don’t worry my overwhelming manliness will not allow me to disarm a poor defenceless girl

book ron: [excitedly] I DISARMED HERMIONE THREE WHOLE TIMES DID YOU SEE THAT HARRY DID YOU?????

#hermione: it was like once i got you many more times! #ron: I TWAS WAY MORE THAN ONCE #i like to imagine his voice cracking in that scene #ron knows hermione is good at magic and gets so excited he could disarm her #while reading the books you never have to wonder wether ron respects hermione #the character assassination of my ginger child by the movies is so bad #harry potter #ron weasley #hermione granger #ron weasley supremacy #ron weasley defense squad #romione #ronmione #books vs movies #order of the phoenix

[stabby-apologist]

I love all the movies honestly, but

I'm not gonna lie, I was surprised to see Greyback turn into smoke and fly in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Whether or not he was a Dark Wizard, he was never inducted into the Death Eater circle because of his "half-breed" status and Voldemort would never have taught him anything that would put him in the same status as Wizardkind.

Yes, Greyback is a Wizard (noted that he was a Wizard first before he was turned), but Voldemort, much like the rest of the world, would have demoted him from Wizard to half-breed.

And even in the books, the only other person other than Voldemort that we knew who had the power of flight was Snape.

I'd wager Bellatrix would know, but we just never read any of that or seen it in the movies

#harry potter #post #bellatrix lestrange #severus snape #personal post #fenrir greyback #werewolf #half-breed #harry potter and the half blood prince #remus lupin #flight #death eaters #lord voldemort #books vs movies #pro harry potter books #pro harry potter movies #film #writing #hbo max

[capriddle]

I hate this scene in the movies because it makes Bellatrix and Voldemort's relationship appear very different from the books. Voldemort in her own way is affectionate with her, calls her Bella even when he is angry with her. in this scene he appears annoyed by her while in the books it's the opposite! I also think it's completely absurd as a scene, who would ever believe that someone could love so deeply someone who treats them this way? And we know (from the books, in fact) that Voldemort cares about her, albeit in her particular way.

#bellamort #lord voldemort #bellatrix black #bellatrix #tomriddle #voldemort #bellatrix lestrange #books vs movies

[districtfourmermaid]

They should've let Katniss be unhealthily skinny in the movie.

I understand a little bit how Jennifer Lawrence or whoever didn't want to present yet another very skinny main female character. They didn't want to ~promote~ anything. They wanted their main girl to be a healthy-looking skinny. However, I think they missed an opportunity.

Katniss as a character is starving to death. She is struggling to survive. In the books, her drive to feed herself and her family is an important part of her character, and it's important that she isn't skinny because she wants to be; she's skinny because she literally cannot get herself to a healthy weight. The Capitol designers wanted to give her a boob job after the Games to make her look better. Seeing a healthy-slim Jennifer Lawrence represent this felt dishonest. It does her character a disservice to ignore that reality. And frankly, it felt like it had the opposite effect of its goal, because it sent the message that this is what people who are starving to death look like. That starving to death produces a hot skinny.

What if they'd given us a scary skinny Katniss? What if they'd started the movie with her starving to death, showed her struggling with energy and strength, showed her eating a lot during training to try to bulk up? The movie could have used this opportunity to focus on the detrimental effects of low body condition and malnourishment. We could've had an obviously healthier weight Katniss in Catching Fire and Mockingjay and seen her enjoying no longer starving to death. We could've seen her training for the Quell, putting on muscle like she's never been able to before. They could've left in the Capitol party vomit scene, too, and not shied away from the subject matter.

The movies tried to dodge the problem of ~promoting~ unhealthy thinness and ended up ignoring the way that very issue is tackled in the books. I almost wonder if the problem isn't that Hollywood didn't want a skinny Katniss detrimentally affecting young girls' body image, but that Hollywood couldn't handle an honest representation of what being starving skinny actually means. They didn't want to be the "bad guys" for this one, but they didn't want to be honest about the problem or fix anything either. The decision not to give us starving skinny Katniss was because showing a healthier female body was trendy, not because they cared about any message. Cowards.

#hunger games #katniss #everdeen #jennifer lawrence #gary ross #movie #hg movie #books vs movies #body image #analysis

[paigebraddock]

Halloween season 😆🎃😱

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