Books are made into movies. And movies into books. Now, my favorite books that have been made into movies are the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling (pronounced Rolling).
I heard from someone in elementary school and my dad that the books are better than the movies. I love the books and movies just the same. None was better than the other. Well, that was until the third movie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, came out. Then, I liked the books three and six rather than the movies. After seeing the third movie, I started to pick the movies three and six apart. Well, more recently it was the sixth movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, that I tore apart like there was no tomorrow.
Personally, I wish that the movies would follow the books. I know that the director and whoever else is going to change things, but don’t change the way things or people are supposed to look.
An example is in the third book and movie. In the book, Professor Remus Lupin is supposed to look like a werewolf when he transforms. But in the movie, Lupin is "tall," standing on his hind legs, and with very little hair. And another thing in the third book and movie: In the book, Sirius Black is supposed to be the size of a bear when he transforms into a dog. But in the movie, he’s the size of a dog. So, I need to keep going since I already started on tearing up the movie. At the end of the movie, Harry gets his Firebolt broom. In the book, he is actually supposed to get his broom as a Christmas present.
Now, in the sixth movie, I told my dad that I felt that the creators of the movie concentrated mostly on the relationships that were going on rather than the war. I also told my dad that if you did not read the book, you would not be able to pick out a possible relationship in the movie. Now, Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin are not supposed to get together until the end of the book. But they got together somewhere in the middle of the movie. Also, in the book, Professor Severus Snape does not know that Harry was at the top of the tower with the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. Harry is in his Invisibility Cloak and Petrified (frozen, not in fear). But in the movie, Snape puts a finger to his lips, telling him to remain quiet. And--
So you get my point. I could just go on and on.
I’m afraid that when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 come out, I’ll be tearing both apart. And that, in my opinion, would not be a good way to end the series: Tearing the movies apart because they do not follow the book to a T. Or almost to a T. I do not want to kill the last two movies from the last book just like I did with the third and sixth movies. But, if I have to, I will do my job.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
"Perfect"
I have a certain mind when it comes to remembering things. Well, it’s mostly about books and movies. Especially if I read and watched them a million times. I even tell my parents that what they just said was not what they had just said earlier. Now, what it comes down to (in simple terms) is that I’m a "perfect nobody."
So what if my (literally) tiny bedroom is (somewhat literally) the storage room in our house beings the fact nearly everything ends up in my room? And so what if my room is not clean because of everything I have in it? And so what if I have a million papers from school this school year so far in a folder without any pockets where my four classes of papers is jumbled all together? Other than that, I’m "perfect."
What do I mean by "perfect?" What I mean by that is what I said above about books and movies and what my parents say. If a movie is taken from a book, the movie has to be exactly like the book. If a book is taken from a movie (there were a couple of books that I have read that was taken from a couple of movies), then that has to be exactly like the movie! And if my parents say early on in the day that so-and-so said this and then later on that night, they say that so-and-so said that, I tell them that they (my parents) did not say that.
And another thing that might end up not being "perfect." If I’m talking to somebody and we talk about a subject we are originally starting out with, we’ll end up talking about a million other topics. And then, when we’re done talking about the last subject, they will ask what we were talking about (the original topic). Sometimes, when I let them go off and talk about something else, I’ll literally sit there and think about what the original topic was that we were talking about. I think my first "incident" was in seventh grade. And this has continued to happen on rare occasions, especially at home with my mom and dad.
But here’s another thing that I have to be "perfect" about: My blankets. Right now, I have two of them. One of them is from my aunt. That one has stars and can glow in the dark, but obviously not for a long period of time. My second one was my grandmother’s. She passed away this past June, and so my family and I brought a lot of her things home with us. Hers has flowers on it. And both blankets have a tag on them. Every time my blankets shift position or I take them from my bed so that I can go sleep on the couch, I always have to have the tags at the foot of my bed or at the other end of the couch. Basically, the tags always has to be on the opposite side where my head is going to be.
So what if my (literally) tiny bedroom is (somewhat literally) the storage room in our house beings the fact nearly everything ends up in my room? And so what if my room is not clean because of everything I have in it? And so what if I have a million papers from school this school year so far in a folder without any pockets where my four classes of papers is jumbled all together? Other than that, I’m "perfect."
What do I mean by "perfect?" What I mean by that is what I said above about books and movies and what my parents say. If a movie is taken from a book, the movie has to be exactly like the book. If a book is taken from a movie (there were a couple of books that I have read that was taken from a couple of movies), then that has to be exactly like the movie! And if my parents say early on in the day that so-and-so said this and then later on that night, they say that so-and-so said that, I tell them that they (my parents) did not say that.
And another thing that might end up not being "perfect." If I’m talking to somebody and we talk about a subject we are originally starting out with, we’ll end up talking about a million other topics. And then, when we’re done talking about the last subject, they will ask what we were talking about (the original topic). Sometimes, when I let them go off and talk about something else, I’ll literally sit there and think about what the original topic was that we were talking about. I think my first "incident" was in seventh grade. And this has continued to happen on rare occasions, especially at home with my mom and dad.
But here’s another thing that I have to be "perfect" about: My blankets. Right now, I have two of them. One of them is from my aunt. That one has stars and can glow in the dark, but obviously not for a long period of time. My second one was my grandmother’s. She passed away this past June, and so my family and I brought a lot of her things home with us. Hers has flowers on it. And both blankets have a tag on them. Every time my blankets shift position or I take them from my bed so that I can go sleep on the couch, I always have to have the tags at the foot of my bed or at the other end of the couch. Basically, the tags always has to be on the opposite side where my head is going to be.
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