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Jun. 17th, 2004 10:04 amSome thoughts on Prisoner of Azkaban, reposted from a comment I made in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ursulav's journal entry on the film:
This movie is by far my favorite of the three, because they finally loosened the death grip on the books a little bit. Make no mistake -- first and foremost, I love the books. But books and movies are not and can NEVER be identical. Where a book will have greater depth of detail and elaboration of emotion and motivation, a movie will have visual appeal and a greater sense of immediacy. The PoA movie was a movie through and through, and was so much more interesting to watch as a result. I loved that they included little bits of humor that could never be pulled off in text, like the Whomping Willow season-change gags.
I did very much miss the explanation about the Marauders, but I can understand why it was left out. (Like many people have speculated, I half expect to find it as a deleted scene on the DVD.) That and the entire scene in the Shrieking Shack are enough to make any screenwriter weep tears of frustration. That much pure explanation can work in a book (slows it down, but there's enough tension by that point in the book that it works), but in a movie, it's a death knell.
( Some additional thoughts. )
ursulav's journal entry on the film:This movie is by far my favorite of the three, because they finally loosened the death grip on the books a little bit. Make no mistake -- first and foremost, I love the books. But books and movies are not and can NEVER be identical. Where a book will have greater depth of detail and elaboration of emotion and motivation, a movie will have visual appeal and a greater sense of immediacy. The PoA movie was a movie through and through, and was so much more interesting to watch as a result. I loved that they included little bits of humor that could never be pulled off in text, like the Whomping Willow season-change gags.
I did very much miss the explanation about the Marauders, but I can understand why it was left out. (Like many people have speculated, I half expect to find it as a deleted scene on the DVD.) That and the entire scene in the Shrieking Shack are enough to make any screenwriter weep tears of frustration. That much pure explanation can work in a book (slows it down, but there's enough tension by that point in the book that it works), but in a movie, it's a death knell.
( Some additional thoughts. )