How different is the character of Harry Potter to the books and movies?
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at
11:21 pm
Because, I haven’t read the Harry Potter books, my criticism is based, mainly on the movie version of the character of Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe…
For me, the character of Harry Potter is becoming too proud, watching the first movie, the Sorcerer’s Stone, to the third movie, the Prisoner of Azkaban, I like the character of Harry Potter…
But from the fourth film, the Goblet of Fire, to the latest movie, the Half Blood Prince, the character of Harry Potter is becoming too proud of himself, and getting a bit boastful to be honest…
What are your opinions?
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no, not at all.
youre confusing pride with self confidence.
in the books and the movies harry is always modest. he hates the fame that was trust upon him from when he was a baby. he never wanted full credit for any of his awesome accomplishments. he didnt want the "eternal glory" from the triwizard tournament and when he won he just gave away the prize money because it meant nothing to him.
no, harry learned to be more independant and confident but he has NEVER been overly proud and definitely not boastful
Inevitably, the characters are developed differently in the books and in the movies. They’re different media, so the way the characters are presented gets slightly changed.
In the books, there is room for a lot more subtlety than in the movies, as there are no time or space constraints. Therefore, in the books, I think, all the characters are much more complex.
As to the pride issue in Harry himself, yes, in the books he is proud and arrogant as well. The difference is that in the books, we see so much more of what he feels and thinks than in the movies, so although he has a really negative characteristic, we still sympathize with him and like him. Yes, there were times as I was reading that I felt utterly disgusted with what Harry was doing, but because of the full character development, I stayed with him because I felt his confusion and adolescence. In the movies, which tend to focus more on plot than on character, you see his pride and arrogance much more clearly, and it doesn’t make me want to stick with the story. It is, as I said, because a movie is such a different medium than a book.
The movies are a FAIR representation of the books. In the later books as well, he seems very proud of himself, maybe not as much as in the movies, but still proud nonetheless.
There are a lot of inconsistencies between the books and the movies but the character and personality of Harry himself are one of the few things they really got right imho. I don’t think Daniel Radcliffe was the best choice to play him but in terms of the writing and directing, it was pretty accurate. He is proud, brave and whiny in both the books and the movies.
Read the books anyway, they’re waaay better than any of the movies. You miss so much of the storyline by only watching the movies, especially in Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire.
I think he’s more proud in the books than he is in the movies. For example in Half-Blood Prince, when he finds out what Sectumsempra can do, the movie Harry feels bad and wants to get rid of the book. The book Harry agrees that it’s something he’d never do knowingly, even to Malfoy, but he still wants to keep the book. Also the book Harry doesn’t really give a **** about Slughorn, like the movie Harry does, and as a result he doesn’t try his best when Dumbledore asks him to get the memory, and as a result he gets yelled at. The movie Harry did everything he could to get the memory. Also, the movie Harry did nothing when Snape or Malfoy was about to kill Dumbledore, the book Harry would’ve done something, but he couldn’t because Dumbledore immobilized him. I like both Harrys, I mean he is what he is.
Yeah, you should really read the books, the movies contain nothing, just the superficial stuff.