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30 Day Book Challenge: 19
Mar. 5th, 2012 03:00 pmDay 19 – Favourite book turned into a movie
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I don't know why, exactly, but I never managed to get a firm grasp on PoA as a book when I was younger - I found it jumbled together, confusing, and lackluster, and the end just had me going 'meh?' I didn't understand how everything was supposed to fit together, so it didn't have much emotional punch. (This is on my rereads list; it's been so long since I've read the book or watched the movie that I'll be able to enjoy it without so many preconceptions.)
Then the movie came along, and everything clicked. (Most of it, anyway. Gary Oldman and David Thewlis will never be my Sirius and Lupin. I've always pictured Sirius as looking like a slightly younger Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, and I never had a clear mental picture of Lupin.) I understood the various plot threads coming together, and why this story was important in terms of the individual characters, and in terms of the broader story that Rowling was telling. I also understood Rupert Grint's hair for the last time. Least favorite book in the series, but definitely my favorite movie. Yeah, including the last one. I will never forgive them for either the lighting of the last scene on the bridge, or for the final battle between Harry and Voldemort.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I don't know why, exactly, but I never managed to get a firm grasp on PoA as a book when I was younger - I found it jumbled together, confusing, and lackluster, and the end just had me going 'meh?' I didn't understand how everything was supposed to fit together, so it didn't have much emotional punch. (This is on my rereads list; it's been so long since I've read the book or watched the movie that I'll be able to enjoy it without so many preconceptions.)
Then the movie came along, and everything clicked. (Most of it, anyway. Gary Oldman and David Thewlis will never be my Sirius and Lupin. I've always pictured Sirius as looking like a slightly younger Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn, and I never had a clear mental picture of Lupin.) I understood the various plot threads coming together, and why this story was important in terms of the individual characters, and in terms of the broader story that Rowling was telling. I also understood Rupert Grint's hair for the last time. Least favorite book in the series, but definitely my favorite movie. Yeah, including the last one. I will never forgive them for either the lighting of the last scene on the bridge, or for the final battle between Harry and Voldemort.
