It's considered a given that when a book is adapted into a movie, things about it are going to change. Certain things that work great in books don't work as well in movies and vice versa. Still, fans are always going to wish that certain things had made it into the movie, even if they think the movie was awesome overall.
I love the Harry Potter movies, but that doesn't mean there aren't things about them I'd change. For every single movie, there's at least one thing I'd have loved to see be kept in from the book. In this post, I'm going to choice one thing I wish had been in each movie.
I think Sorcerer's Stone is the hardest for me since I actually saw the movie before I read the book. Because of this, it's often hard for me to remember things that were in the book but not the movie. I have a similar problem with Chamber of Secrets. I was just so young when these movies came out that it's hard for me to distingush between the books and movies no matter how many times a read or watch them. Plus, there aren't huge differences between those two books and movies I don't think, at least compared to the rest of the books and movies.
I think I'm going to choose Peeves for Sorcerer's Stone. Technically, Peeves would work for every movie, but they'd actually filmed scenes with Peeves and then decided to cut them. I would absolutely love to see that footage. Peeves would have been great.
For Chamber of Secrets, I'd have to say all of the Valentine's Day stuff. I completely understand why all of that was cut, but it still would have been really amusing to watch.
Prisoner of Azkaban is one of my favorite Harry Potter movies, but I also have the most problems with it (which completely makes sense). How can they have not talked about the Marauders backstory!? To me that seems incredibly important. You have no idea how many times I've had to explain all of that to people who haven't read the books. It's basically impossible for people who haven't read the books to understand all of that. They don't have a clue why Harry's patronus is a stag, why Sirius and Wormtail are animagi, or who made the Marauders Map and why Sirius and Remus know all about it. I don't understand why they thought leaving all of that out was a good idea. That's the number one thing I'd change in all of the movies.
Goblet of Fire is my least favorite Harry Potter book, and I don't have many complaints about things they changed in the movie. They only thing I can really think of is Rita Skeeter being an animagus. That would have been cool to see. S.P.E.W. would have been cool too. More houselves is never a bad thing. In fact, forget the animagus thing. I just want to see Dobby and Winky.
Order of the Phoenix had a lot cut from it of course, but the one thing I would have loved to see is Snape's Worst Memory in it's entirety (or at least more than they gave us). We didn't even get to see Lily, and we find out later that she was the whole reason it was his worst memory. I really wish they could have given us more.
To just prove to you even more how much I love house elves, the biggest thing I would have liked to see in Half Blood Prince is Dobby and Kreacher interaction. They basically gave us this when they added Dobby into the Grimauld Place scene with Kreacher, but I still would have loved to see them tailing Draco together in Half Blood Prince.
It's hard to think of something for Deathly Hallows Part 1. It would have been nice to see Lily's letter and the picture of baby Harry. (Babies are always awesome.) There wasn't anything huge that I was upset to see cut out though. (Unless I'm forgetting something, which wouldn't surprise me.) They also didn't talk much about all of the Dumbledore stuff.
There were a ton of changes in Deathly Hallows Part 2, but I was perfectly fine with most of them. I would have loved to see Percy make up with his family, but I can understand that being cut. One thing that slightly annoyed me was the fact that Teddy was never even mentioned. That's not entirely true since Harry mentions him when talking to (Resurection Stone) Remus in the Forbidden Forest, but since non-book readers don't know about Teddy, this just seems completely random. I would have loved to see the scene where Remus shows up at Shell Cottage after Teddy is born.
What are some things you wish had been in the Harry Potter movies?
Monday, August 29, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Who's Irene?
I love Saturday. It is by far the best day of the week. My feelings for it kind of wan in the summer, but as soon as school starts again, I remember how much I love that particular day of the week.
Today was the Drive One 4 Ur School event that I worked at. One of the local car dealership let people test drive cars for free, and our school got money each time someone test drove. There was a decent sized group of kids there from school, way more than was needed. Most of our time was spent just sitting there talking. A lot of the teachers were there, including our principal, vice principal, and guidance counselor. It's kind of weird seeing them outside of school.
I was so excited about finally getting to wear my awesome new shirt today. (I can't wear it to school because it's kind of spoilery for the last Hunger Games book, and Haley and Jordan are still reading them.) Then, I get there, and they hand me a Drive One 4 Ur School. I didn't really have to take it, but everyone else was wearing them. (Plus, I wasn't turning down a free shirt.) I'm determined to wear that Hunger Games shirt tomorrow. I don't care that it breaks my rule of not wearing t-shirts to church. (I'm never dressed up at church anyway, so it's not like it's a big leap or anything.
Ji and I were only supposed to work an hour and a half, but we ended up staying for two and a half hours. It really wasn't that bad since we were just talking to everyone. We even played hangman for a while. Ji and I took some pictures for the yearbook. (Ji took a lot more than I did.) We also informed Ji about the hurricane when she asked who Irene was after hearing the name. I then informed Ji of every single bit of Hurricane Irene news that I say through twitter for the rest of the morning. We even got some awesome free popcorn.
When I got home, I discovered that my Hoosier Girls State DVD had come in the mail! That actually reminds me that I need to go make my family watch it with me. I'm looking forward to all of the memories (and making my family see how awesome it was).
I have a slight favor to ask you guys today. As you know, I'll be going off to college next fall, so it shouldn't be surprising that I'm trying to get as much scholarship money as I can. There's this site called Fastweb that helps you find scholarships. It's pretty awesome. Right now, if you refer someone to the site, you're entered into a drawing to win $500 of scholarship money. If you're also looking for scholarships, please use this link to register. It'll help you find scholarships, and you can help me out at the same time. I'd be extremely greatful.
That basically summarizes the more exciting parts of my day. The rest of it was mainly spent watching Naruto, How I Met Your Mother, vlogbrothers, and The Hillywood Show. (Isn't that just full of variety?) I'm going to go convince my parents to watch that HGS DVD with me. (It's only August, and I'm already reliving the summer.)
Today was the Drive One 4 Ur School event that I worked at. One of the local car dealership let people test drive cars for free, and our school got money each time someone test drove. There was a decent sized group of kids there from school, way more than was needed. Most of our time was spent just sitting there talking. A lot of the teachers were there, including our principal, vice principal, and guidance counselor. It's kind of weird seeing them outside of school.
I was so excited about finally getting to wear my awesome new shirt today. (I can't wear it to school because it's kind of spoilery for the last Hunger Games book, and Haley and Jordan are still reading them.) Then, I get there, and they hand me a Drive One 4 Ur School. I didn't really have to take it, but everyone else was wearing them. (Plus, I wasn't turning down a free shirt.) I'm determined to wear that Hunger Games shirt tomorrow. I don't care that it breaks my rule of not wearing t-shirts to church. (I'm never dressed up at church anyway, so it's not like it's a big leap or anything.
Ji and I were only supposed to work an hour and a half, but we ended up staying for two and a half hours. It really wasn't that bad since we were just talking to everyone. We even played hangman for a while. Ji and I took some pictures for the yearbook. (Ji took a lot more than I did.) We also informed Ji about the hurricane when she asked who Irene was after hearing the name. I then informed Ji of every single bit of Hurricane Irene news that I say through twitter for the rest of the morning. We even got some awesome free popcorn.
When I got home, I discovered that my Hoosier Girls State DVD had come in the mail! That actually reminds me that I need to go make my family watch it with me. I'm looking forward to all of the memories (and making my family see how awesome it was).
I have a slight favor to ask you guys today. As you know, I'll be going off to college next fall, so it shouldn't be surprising that I'm trying to get as much scholarship money as I can. There's this site called Fastweb that helps you find scholarships. It's pretty awesome. Right now, if you refer someone to the site, you're entered into a drawing to win $500 of scholarship money. If you're also looking for scholarships, please use this link to register. It'll help you find scholarships, and you can help me out at the same time. I'd be extremely greatful.
That basically summarizes the more exciting parts of my day. The rest of it was mainly spent watching Naruto, How I Met Your Mother, vlogbrothers, and The Hillywood Show. (Isn't that just full of variety?) I'm going to go convince my parents to watch that HGS DVD with me. (It's only August, and I'm already reliving the summer.)
Hunger Games Shipping
Three days ago I posted a video about Harry Potter ships. In it I mentioned that I was probably going to post shipping related videos and blog posts about other fandoms. This is one of those posts.
Is it any surprise that I'm going to talk about Peeta and Katniss first? I love them so much! They're not really the couple that would usually be considered adorable (no couple with Katniss would be really), yet I still think of that word when I think of them together. I guess Peeta makes up for Katniss in the adorable department. When I read The Hunger Games for the first time, I wasn't sure what to expect. After reading the scene where Peeta confesses his feelings in front of the whole country, I was kind of shocked. At that point I still wasn't sure if I wanted them together or not. That quickly changed while reading about them in the games.
I adore Peeta so much. Honestly, I would have gotten fed up with Katniss after their first games and probably would have written her off. (I guess he came close to that, but it didn't really work.) I love reading about how much Peeta loves Katniss. (And, Katniss loves Peeta even if it takes her forever to realize it.)
One of the things that kept me on the edge of my seat through the whole series was their relationship. Personally, I think Katniss fell in love with Peeta a long long time before she actually realized it. I just wish we could read more about them as a (real) couple.
I thought Gale was a pretty decent character at first, but as I read Mockingjay, I started liking him less and less. Still, I couldn't help but ship him with someone. In between Catching Fire and Mockingjay I started thinking about what would happen if Madge and Gale ended up together. (I wasn't the only one of course.) It wasn't something I was very invested in (like Neville/Luna), but I'd thought about it. That all went down the drain in the third book. Then I read the scene in Mockingjay when Gale goes to visit Katniss in the hospital. You remember how Johanna is there? Do I even need to tell you what I ship now? For me, the Gale/Johanna ship is at just about the same level as Gale/Madge was (or still is) for me. I don't usually read fanfiction for either couple unless I just happen to stumble upon it, but I enjoy both couples.
Of course I have to mention Finnick and Annie. I love them so much! I don't read much fanfiction about them either, but I love when they make appearances in other fanfiction I read. While reading Catching Fire I was really curious about them, so I loved reading about them in Mockingjay. I wish we knew more about what happened to Annie after Mockingjay.
Those are my "top" four ships in the Hunger Games fandom. Like I said in the Harry Potter video, I'll probably go back to each fandom at some point in time and do each couple more in depth. What are your favorite Hunger Games couples?
Is it any surprise that I'm going to talk about Peeta and Katniss first? I love them so much! They're not really the couple that would usually be considered adorable (no couple with Katniss would be really), yet I still think of that word when I think of them together. I guess Peeta makes up for Katniss in the adorable department. When I read The Hunger Games for the first time, I wasn't sure what to expect. After reading the scene where Peeta confesses his feelings in front of the whole country, I was kind of shocked. At that point I still wasn't sure if I wanted them together or not. That quickly changed while reading about them in the games.
I adore Peeta so much. Honestly, I would have gotten fed up with Katniss after their first games and probably would have written her off. (I guess he came close to that, but it didn't really work.) I love reading about how much Peeta loves Katniss. (And, Katniss loves Peeta even if it takes her forever to realize it.)
One of the things that kept me on the edge of my seat through the whole series was their relationship. Personally, I think Katniss fell in love with Peeta a long long time before she actually realized it. I just wish we could read more about them as a (real) couple.
I thought Gale was a pretty decent character at first, but as I read Mockingjay, I started liking him less and less. Still, I couldn't help but ship him with someone. In between Catching Fire and Mockingjay I started thinking about what would happen if Madge and Gale ended up together. (I wasn't the only one of course.) It wasn't something I was very invested in (like Neville/Luna), but I'd thought about it. That all went down the drain in the third book. Then I read the scene in Mockingjay when Gale goes to visit Katniss in the hospital. You remember how Johanna is there? Do I even need to tell you what I ship now? For me, the Gale/Johanna ship is at just about the same level as Gale/Madge was (or still is) for me. I don't usually read fanfiction for either couple unless I just happen to stumble upon it, but I enjoy both couples.
Of course I have to mention Finnick and Annie. I love them so much! I don't read much fanfiction about them either, but I love when they make appearances in other fanfiction I read. While reading Catching Fire I was really curious about them, so I loved reading about them in Mockingjay. I wish we knew more about what happened to Annie after Mockingjay.
Those are my "top" four ships in the Hunger Games fandom. Like I said in the Harry Potter video, I'll probably go back to each fandom at some point in time and do each couple more in depth. What are your favorite Hunger Games couples?
Friday, August 26, 2011
I Get too Excited About These Things...
It's Friday! This week seemed to drag on. Unfortunately, this weekend I won't get to do the one thing that's most amazing about the weekend: sleeping in. I'll be at a car dealership at 9:30 tomorrow morning for Drive One 4 Ur School, but that's okay because I'll be helping raise money for our school. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
Before heading to AP U.S. history today, I had to stop by the yearbook room to get the camera in order to take pictures in AP English. Our English teacher made us come up with skits to help us remember our hardest vocab words, and I took pictures of each skit (except the one I was in, a boy in the class took pictures of ours). We came up with the skits just about five minutes before doing them, and our group's was particularly bad. Ji, Kayla, and I's skit basically consisted of the three of us standing around talking about random stuff as our word was "interlocutor."
As we were walking from yearbook to computer applications, Ji and I had an interesting conversation about dying hair. Ji wants to dye her hair blond. I mentioned how much I loved auburn/dark red hair, and Ji told me I should dye my hair that color. It's not going to happen, but I have a feeling I'm going to be pestered about it a lot from now on.
This is random, but our lunch today was chicken tacos, something we've never had before. It was oddly good, which is weird. We also had a very interesting conversation at lunch today. You'll just have to wonder what it was about though because there's no way I'm saying here. It wasn't bad or anything, but if taken out of context, some people might find it offensive. (It wasn't and nothing bad was said about anyone or anything. It's just hard to explain.)
I'm not going to lie, third block (when I peer tutor at the middle school) has been stressing me out since I started. I don't want to go into details as to why, but it hasn't been that great. Today, however, was a good day (yesterday wasn't too bad either), and I think things are starting to look up. Let's hope I didn't just jinx myself. In the first class I'm in, I had to go help a boy try and find a paper in his locker. (Something that definitely isn't tutoring, but none of the kids needed help on homework at the moment.) While we were looking through his locker, the middle school principal walked by us and asked me if the boy was behaving for me. I said he was, and the principal said that was good and maybe the boy would get a reward later. That boy seemed so proud of that. When we went back into the room (after finding his paper) he repeated all of it to the teacher. This is the same boy that's been talking to me every day I go over there, and I've helped him with stuff a few times. Even during the stressful days, he's made me feel just a little bit better.
The second class I help in is where the majority of the stress has been coming from, but today was extremely different. I think everyone's starting to get used to me being there, and it's nothing like it was the first week or so. I helped some kids go over multiplication and then the whole class played Bingo where they had to solve a multiplication problem to figure out the number.
When I got to government, I got this thing that Haley had made in foods class and saved for me, Jordan, and Laura. They were kind of like no-bake cookies with a Hershey's Kiss on top. They were really good. Jordan and I ate ours before class started, even though we may not be allowed to eat food in class. The teacher watched us and didn't say anything so...
Before I stopped to write this post, I was looking at this website. This website is awesome. I found out about this orphanage in Mexico from the front page. I know want to volunteer at this orphanage next summer. This is almost becoming a dream. It would be an amazing experince. I'd just have to pay to get there and for room and board. I could learn Spanish (because three years of it in school did no good). Plus, it's far from home without being across an ocean. I want to do it... I wonder if I could convince someone to do it with me. Ji grew up in Guatemala. She could come with me and even translate for me. I want this to happen. I want this to happen so much...
I also found a new t-shirt site. (If you follow me on twitter, you know if bought several t-shirts from here and here lately.) Now I've found a new site that has a new shirt each week. The best part? Each time you buy a shirt, money goes to charity. It's going to be tough not buying each one. I'm trying really hard to decide if I want to buy the one that's available now.
I wrote this whole blog post about half asleep. I honestly remember just about nothing I just wrote. If it's incoherent, blame my lack of sleep.
Before heading to AP U.S. history today, I had to stop by the yearbook room to get the camera in order to take pictures in AP English. Our English teacher made us come up with skits to help us remember our hardest vocab words, and I took pictures of each skit (except the one I was in, a boy in the class took pictures of ours). We came up with the skits just about five minutes before doing them, and our group's was particularly bad. Ji, Kayla, and I's skit basically consisted of the three of us standing around talking about random stuff as our word was "interlocutor."
As we were walking from yearbook to computer applications, Ji and I had an interesting conversation about dying hair. Ji wants to dye her hair blond. I mentioned how much I loved auburn/dark red hair, and Ji told me I should dye my hair that color. It's not going to happen, but I have a feeling I'm going to be pestered about it a lot from now on.
This is random, but our lunch today was chicken tacos, something we've never had before. It was oddly good, which is weird. We also had a very interesting conversation at lunch today. You'll just have to wonder what it was about though because there's no way I'm saying here. It wasn't bad or anything, but if taken out of context, some people might find it offensive. (It wasn't and nothing bad was said about anyone or anything. It's just hard to explain.)
I'm not going to lie, third block (when I peer tutor at the middle school) has been stressing me out since I started. I don't want to go into details as to why, but it hasn't been that great. Today, however, was a good day (yesterday wasn't too bad either), and I think things are starting to look up. Let's hope I didn't just jinx myself. In the first class I'm in, I had to go help a boy try and find a paper in his locker. (Something that definitely isn't tutoring, but none of the kids needed help on homework at the moment.) While we were looking through his locker, the middle school principal walked by us and asked me if the boy was behaving for me. I said he was, and the principal said that was good and maybe the boy would get a reward later. That boy seemed so proud of that. When we went back into the room (after finding his paper) he repeated all of it to the teacher. This is the same boy that's been talking to me every day I go over there, and I've helped him with stuff a few times. Even during the stressful days, he's made me feel just a little bit better.
The second class I help in is where the majority of the stress has been coming from, but today was extremely different. I think everyone's starting to get used to me being there, and it's nothing like it was the first week or so. I helped some kids go over multiplication and then the whole class played Bingo where they had to solve a multiplication problem to figure out the number.
When I got to government, I got this thing that Haley had made in foods class and saved for me, Jordan, and Laura. They were kind of like no-bake cookies with a Hershey's Kiss on top. They were really good. Jordan and I ate ours before class started, even though we may not be allowed to eat food in class. The teacher watched us and didn't say anything so...
Before I stopped to write this post, I was looking at this website. This website is awesome. I found out about this orphanage in Mexico from the front page. I know want to volunteer at this orphanage next summer. This is almost becoming a dream. It would be an amazing experince. I'd just have to pay to get there and for room and board. I could learn Spanish (because three years of it in school did no good). Plus, it's far from home without being across an ocean. I want to do it... I wonder if I could convince someone to do it with me. Ji grew up in Guatemala. She could come with me and even translate for me. I want this to happen. I want this to happen so much...
I also found a new t-shirt site. (If you follow me on twitter, you know if bought several t-shirts from here and here lately.) Now I've found a new site that has a new shirt each week. The best part? Each time you buy a shirt, money goes to charity. It's going to be tough not buying each one. I'm trying really hard to decide if I want to buy the one that's available now.
I wrote this whole blog post about half asleep. I honestly remember just about nothing I just wrote. If it's incoherent, blame my lack of sleep.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
My Feelings on Cho Chang
There are a lot of great characters in Harry Potter. I love a good portion of the Harry Potter characters. However, J.K. Rowling writes very realistic characters, which means no one's going to like every single one. It's like in real life. Sometimes you just don't like certain people. There may be nothing wrong with them, but for some reason or other, your personalities just don't fit together.
One of the characters that I feel this way about is Cho Chang. When I was younger, I didn't have a problem with her, but as I got older and re-read the books, she got more and more annoying to me. The way she acts around Harry in Order of the Phoenix drives me up a wall. Who goes up to a boy the like and starts talking about (and crying over) their ex-boyfriend? I understand she'd want to talk about it and thought Harry would understand, but it's not really something you just spring on a person. I also think she completely overreacts on the date. Yes, Harry is insensitive and should have worded things differently, but she doesn't let him give an explanation before storming out the door. It kind of annoys me that she just comes up to Harry and expects him to forgive her (which he does) later.
As you can see I don't have a very long list of complaints about Cho. We're honestly not given that much information about her. Maybe if we got to know her better, I'd actually start to like her. We'll probably never learn more about her (unless there's something on Pottermore) though, so I guess I'll never know. From what we do learn in the books, she seems very annoying to me. I don't think she'd be someone that I'd get along with very well.
One of the characters that I feel this way about is Cho Chang. When I was younger, I didn't have a problem with her, but as I got older and re-read the books, she got more and more annoying to me. The way she acts around Harry in Order of the Phoenix drives me up a wall. Who goes up to a boy the like and starts talking about (and crying over) their ex-boyfriend? I understand she'd want to talk about it and thought Harry would understand, but it's not really something you just spring on a person. I also think she completely overreacts on the date. Yes, Harry is insensitive and should have worded things differently, but she doesn't let him give an explanation before storming out the door. It kind of annoys me that she just comes up to Harry and expects him to forgive her (which he does) later.
As you can see I don't have a very long list of complaints about Cho. We're honestly not given that much information about her. Maybe if we got to know her better, I'd actually start to like her. We'll probably never learn more about her (unless there's something on Pottermore) though, so I guess I'll never know. From what we do learn in the books, she seems very annoying to me. I don't think she'd be someone that I'd get along with very well.
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