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Aug. 6th, 2007 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kd7sovSo I saw a movie Saturday. I suspect you may be able to guess which one.
You know, it's odd. Goblet of Fire is my favorite of the books and my least favorite of the movies so far, whereas OotP is my least favorite of the books and, so far, my favorite of the movies. There were, of course things that I didn't like, but all in all it was really cool.
Shall we start with the dislikes first and get them out of the way?
They cut out a few of the really neat little scenes, most particularly "Have a biscuit, Potter" and at the end when Nick is explaining ectology.
The Six weren't gathered soon enough. If you want to move Luna's introduction to the carriages, fine, but Ginny's supposed to be the one to introduce her.
The results of spells were, again, haphazard - Expelliarmus was improved, but Reducto shouldn't explode the whole room, right?
Ah, well. There were good parts, too.
They pegged the new characters so very well. Luna was spot-on, and I was able to point and say "This is why Umbridge scares me more than any other Potterverse character." Even Dumbledore was right, which I was sure Gambon couldn't do.
The director and whoever-all had a lot of fun with Filch.
Hermione-Grawp was just... great.
And the Six! In the Ministry! EEeeee!
Also, they got the romancehints right. I'm not a shipper, but if I'm sufficiently familiar with the canon and I'm exposed to a certain amount of stuff-by-shippers I'll often come up with some ships I support. For Potter there are three: Ron/Hermione (canon, but apparently opposed in movie 4), Harry/Ginny (canon, and nicely hinted at here) and Neville/Luna (uncanon, but they're both my favorite character and there were hints at the Ministry battle, which they did some in the movie).
Also, while I was watching I had an epiphany: the signs from DiR don't have to refer to objects: they're the characters. This does not work as easily in DiR, but that same night I figured out who would be which, and then this morning I realized that the second verse fits very well this way:
"The third, in a quick sing-song tone, chanted something that Will recognized as soon as it began:
'When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back;
Three from the circle, three from the track.
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone.'
But the boy did not end there, as Merriman had done. He went on:
'Iron for the birthday, bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning, stone out of song;
Fire in the candle-ring, water from the thaw;
Six signs the circle, and the grail gone before.'"
It seems to me that Harry is iron (for the birthday; "the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies"); Ron is bronze (carried long; of the Six, he was the second to be introduced - although the third we saw - and has been mentioned in most chapters since then); Hermione is wood (from the burning; she has a way with fire, as noted several times in the first book); Neville is stone (out of song; he was wondrous with the Yule Ball in 4); Ginny as fire and Luna as water don't fit so well, but four out of six ain't bad.
You know, it's odd. Goblet of Fire is my favorite of the books and my least favorite of the movies so far, whereas OotP is my least favorite of the books and, so far, my favorite of the movies. There were, of course things that I didn't like, but all in all it was really cool.
Shall we start with the dislikes first and get them out of the way?
They cut out a few of the really neat little scenes, most particularly "Have a biscuit, Potter" and at the end when Nick is explaining ectology.
The Six weren't gathered soon enough. If you want to move Luna's introduction to the carriages, fine, but Ginny's supposed to be the one to introduce her.
The results of spells were, again, haphazard - Expelliarmus was improved, but Reducto shouldn't explode the whole room, right?
Ah, well. There were good parts, too.
They pegged the new characters so very well. Luna was spot-on, and I was able to point and say "This is why Umbridge scares me more than any other Potterverse character." Even Dumbledore was right, which I was sure Gambon couldn't do.
The director and whoever-all had a lot of fun with Filch.
Hermione-Grawp was just... great.
And the Six! In the Ministry! EEeeee!
Also, they got the romancehints right. I'm not a shipper, but if I'm sufficiently familiar with the canon and I'm exposed to a certain amount of stuff-by-shippers I'll often come up with some ships I support. For Potter there are three: Ron/Hermione (canon, but apparently opposed in movie 4), Harry/Ginny (canon, and nicely hinted at here) and Neville/Luna (uncanon, but they're both my favorite character and there were hints at the Ministry battle, which they did some in the movie).
Also, while I was watching I had an epiphany: the signs from DiR don't have to refer to objects: they're the characters. This does not work as easily in DiR, but that same night I figured out who would be which, and then this morning I realized that the second verse fits very well this way:
"The third, in a quick sing-song tone, chanted something that Will recognized as soon as it began:
'When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back;
Three from the circle, three from the track.
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone.'
But the boy did not end there, as Merriman had done. He went on:
'Iron for the birthday, bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning, stone out of song;
Fire in the candle-ring, water from the thaw;
Six signs the circle, and the grail gone before.'"
It seems to me that Harry is iron (for the birthday; "the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies"); Ron is bronze (carried long; of the Six, he was the second to be introduced - although the third we saw - and has been mentioned in most chapters since then); Hermione is wood (from the burning; she has a way with fire, as noted several times in the first book); Neville is stone (out of song; he was wondrous with the Yule Ball in 4); Ginny as fire and Luna as water don't fit so well, but four out of six ain't bad.
