Top Post on /rHarryPotter: Movie Hermione butchered compared to book version. "Because we need to market the movie to girls"

DoctorWelch · 2014-12-30T04:35:46+00:00

In a completely unrelated note to TRP. Yes, the HP movies were complete shit. Made it through 4 of the movies and said fuck it because the story and characters were almost completely different.

In a related note, this is the classic paradox of feminist bull shit. Feminists are going to get mad no matter how the woman in a piece of media is written. Everything on the scale of worthless character to perfect character is flawed in the feminists' mind. I guess the logical conclusion is that feminists want all women removed from media.

SkorchZang · 2014-12-30T02:49:12+00:00

Highly recommend giving less of a shit.

Anderfail · 2014-12-30T05:02:41+00:00

This person is idealizing Ron in the books, who was a cowardly, jealous beta, who constantly abandoned his friends or his goals because it was hard.

Ron is the exact type of guy TRP loathes. He's useless at everything and feels entitled to shit without having to work for it. He's a perfect example of the modern male.

Sure Hermione is idealized but this doesn't bother me at all really, especially when you know the history of the movies. The director and producer and writers all thought Harry would end up with Hermione and so they made all of the movies under that assumption. Only when books 6 and 7 were released did they figured out the direction the books were going and had to hamfist that relationship into the movies, which is why it sucked on screen.

foldpak111 · 2014-12-30T19:56:18+00:00

Here's something I found interesting.... I thought that Emma Watson's speech to the UN shilling the HeForShe campaign reminded me of book Hermione's Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare (SPEW)... a subplot from one of the books that wasn't really covered in the movies.

Basically Hermione becomes an insufferable activist for the freeing of house elves...house elves who don't really want to be free. She tries to rope Harry and Ron into her organization. It's been a while since I read the books but I think she ends up getting a lot of grief from the elves themselves (who don't want to be "free") before Dumbledore shuts her down.

Life imitating art?

But because of the way the filmmakers changed Hermione's character, this subplot didn't find it's way into the movies. Hmm...

I-Am-Dickish · 2014-12-30T03:34:31+00:00

Meh, literature is almost always butchered by film. Hurry Putter, though it is hardly literature, is no exception.

Watched "Les Miserables" recently. Utter shit. Take out the literary symbolism, finesse in descriptions, and occasional inner monologue and it becomes fuckers singing on the tv for two hours. Completely butchered the ending too. Wolverine Jean Valjean btw.

Title	Top Post on /rHarryPotter: Movie Hermione butchered compared to book version. "Because we need to market the movie to girls"
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Date	December 30, 2014 2:10 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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