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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 6, 2007 13:57:57 GMT -5
i'm definately with you guys. Unlike Dan, Rupert can act, he makes the movie funny and he is completely lovable. When i am watching Dan i feel like i am watching a robot, his lines, his moves, everything feels so scripted as if he's forcing himself to say this stuff. When i was little (and didn't know any better) i liked the movies, now i feel like it's just a burden, i do it because i absolutely adore the books and Harry the character. Although lately i haven't even gone to see HP 4 and only watched half of HP3
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Post by Kristie on Mar 6, 2007 16:25:04 GMT -5
Yeah, Rupert is the better of the two actors. He knows how to make himself appear clumsy and scared like Ron really is, whereas Daniel just feels like he's being forced to say the words. Maybe he just doesn't identify with Harry's character and that's why it comes off so awkward. There's a little bit of Ron's character in all of us, so it's probably easier to portray him...at least a little.
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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 7, 2007 9:30:56 GMT -5
i think he just stinks at acting. If i got paid as much as he does per movie i don't care how much i would not be able to identify with the character i would make it work. Plus Harry's tale is a universally known story so unlike most actors he has backup material through the books. It's not like the director is making him act out of thin air he has books the size of concrete bricks to refer back to....
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Post by bookaddict on Mar 7, 2007 10:30:13 GMT -5
How young was he when he started filming the first movie? I don't mind his acting, and I haven't heard anyone complain about his acting even if they never read the books. I think the Harry Potter movies are really well done, and they are also done so that people with no previous knowledge can understand, unlike the DA Vinci code. I felt that the Da Vinci code was written expecting everyone to have read the book. The movie was too different, and the sequence of events happened to fast. They had no trouble moving from one clue to the next. In the book they had obstacles.
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Post by Kristie on Mar 7, 2007 14:59:03 GMT -5
I caught that in the Da Vinci Code movie too. I think I would've gotten lost watching it. I mean, I got a little confused because I read the book years before the movie even came out, so I'd forgotten some stuff. That was a bad move to make, assuming everyone had read it first. You know what happens when you assume...
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Post by neh on Mar 11, 2007 21:23:12 GMT -5
I seem to be in the minority here, in feeling that Dan's improving in his acting everyday and that the films portray Ron, in some situations, horribly and completely anti-canon in my mind. That's not to say i don't feel that Rupert can act, but what he's provided with for the character is bloody awful. I never NEVER see Ron as a snivelling wimp when i read the novels and yet in the films i want to strangle his neck because of his apparent cowardice. When Rupert's afforded lines of humour they're nowhere near the biting, bitter wit that often comes out of book-Ron's mouth, and that's what i'd love to see the bloke be given, just to see how he tackles it, because i agree that he's a natural comic.
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Post by Kristie on Mar 12, 2007 16:04:25 GMT -5
Perhaps when I reread the books this summer, I will be able to decide better who acts the character best, Dan or Rupert.
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Post by Lu on Mar 13, 2007 10:56:18 GMT -5
I agree with bookaddict, Harry Potter movies are really well-done, besides the 3rd..it's really good but pretty different from the book. My mother has read only an half of the first book but she enjoyed and understand the movies, it's almost the same for my brother, he's read none of them but he understand the movies pretty well.
About the 5th book and related movie, I think Daniel will show if he's a good actor or not this time, because Harry's mood and acting in that book is less simple than the previous ones. Maybe he will be able to express and communicate Harry's feelings as good as the book does. Makes any sense??
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Post by Kristie on Mar 13, 2007 12:40:55 GMT -5
Yeah, lu, that makes sense. In the 5th movie, Harry isn't so simple and he starts to really have the more complex emotions, so we'll see how Dan can fulfill the character.
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Post by sagedautumn on Mar 13, 2007 14:42:52 GMT -5
I'm hoping..................................
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Post by Lu on Mar 19, 2007 3:25:31 GMT -5
And what about Emma/Hermione? I've just received titles of some news from an italian newspaper, one said Emma Watson hasn't signed for the last 2 HP movies because she doesn't want to act Hermione anymore...I hope it's not true! I also have a look at some HP site on the web and I find other news saying that Emma hasn't signed yet but WB "has informed them that they are "extremely confident" that Emma will return for the last two films, despite a recent rush of reports in the news that she had just quit." I've find that new on there: www.thesnitch.co.uk/site/#5749 I've never gone there before, so I don't know if I can trust to that site.
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Post by Kristie on Mar 19, 2007 11:21:12 GMT -5
See, they shouldn't be able to have anyone else but the original Harry, Ron, and Hermione throughout all the movies. They're the main characters and they can't change them! With Dumbledore, that wasn't preventable and he wasn't a really big character in the earlier movies, but he's shown a lot more in the later books. So it wasn't a really big deal that he was two different actors. But for the three main characters, they should've been made to sign for all 7
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Post by Michelle on Mar 19, 2007 11:29:06 GMT -5
I agree that they should have made them sign up for all the movies. But realistically that would have been hard because they had no idea how successful the movies would be or how well the kids would do before the first movie was filmed. Also, it would be very hard to get an 11-year-old and parents to sign that kind of extended contract. But I will be very sad if Hermione doesn't come back.
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Post by Kristie on Mar 19, 2007 11:34:41 GMT -5
Yeah, I realize the difficulties in that, but it would be cool if in my imaginitve world they could have lol
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Post by Lu on Mar 19, 2007 11:41:06 GMT -5
See, they shouldn't be able to have anyone else but the original Harry, Ron, and Hermione throughout all the movies. They're the main characters and they can't change them! With Dumbledore, that wasn't preventable and he wasn't a really big character in the earlier movies, but he's shown a lot more in the later books. So it wasn't a really big deal that he was two different actors. But for the three main characters, they should've been made to sign for all 7 That's right, Kristie! If they change one of three main characters the movie would look completely different. I think it was weird seeing a different Dumbledore, but that wasn't a choice..they really didn't have a choice. I agree that it's hard decide to sign a so extended contract, instead I'm not sure they couldn't expect the success of HP movies, when the first movie came out HP books were already very popular.
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