Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by:J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter: Book vs. Movie
With all the new movies based on books or comics that are out, people wonder why
Hollywood keeps doing it. Some say they're greedy people, just doing it for the money, and
others say that it helps bring the book to life. But I say, why ruin a good book, like Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone, with bad lighting and adequate actors? I say that we don't have to
because the comparison between the two forms of entertainment is a landslide victory for the
book.
You may ask why this bothers me so much. Well little things, like less character
involvement, can annoy me. For example, in the first year of Hogwarts, Harry was running away
from the caretaker, Mr. Filch. In the book, he was with Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and
Neville Longbottom. What got me rattled was that in the movie, he was with only Hermione and
Ron. True, Neville is a secondary character but no less important as the storyline continues.
Also, I feel the movie can't really grasp at how mean Harrys family is. Since his parents death, a
year after he was born, he had to live with his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and Cousin Dudley.
They were truely cruel to him as he grew and always favored their son with tons of present and
candy. What they did to Harry through his life could have put them in jail.
Like most other movies, like To Kill A Mockingbird, it was less funny than the book. In
the fourth book of Harry Potter, the school nurse, of the "muggle" school, was worried about
Dudleys weight and told his parents that he was equivilant in weight to a baby whale. The...
Thoughts
You did bring up many parts that should have been in the movie, but I disagree with you. If not for Harry Potter being made into a movie, I would never have read the books. I'm a huge fan now...all do to Hollywood!!
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