Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On 18/02/25 04:17, Paul S Person wrote:

OTOH, the Harry Potter films tell the same stories as the books,
even the later ones, where way more than half the book doesn't make
it into the film. They are very focused.

Harry Potter is one case where I enjoyed the films (except the last
one), but perhaps this is related to how I reacted to the books. The
first book was excellent, the second was not too bad, but after that
they were a boring exercise in self-plagiarism. I never got to the end
of the fourth volume.

The problem isn't that changes are made -- changes are always made
when a book is filmed. The problem is that the changes make no sense
at all until you realize that PJ treated the book as a series of
Action Sequences separated by boring things like character
development or plot.

I didn't at all like the war theme at the end of the final film. It felt
as if the directors had switched over to Hollywood-style shoot-em-ups
and car crashes.
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