This is still quite possibly my favorite thing I’ve ever done. Also still annoyed it didn’t tag Ash properly @actinganimagus – I love you little bro, I’m sorry tumblr is as much of a little shit as Teddy
It is sad that the Harry Potter movies turned Hermione into a perfect, blameless creature when in reality she constantly nagged people, couldn’t handle not being the best at everything and gave Ron as much shit as Ron gave her. This is what makes her so great as a character. I hate that they left it out.
It makes me sad that the movies turned Snape into a smooth, handsome man who was wrong done by everybody and was entirely blameless when in reality he was a greasy haired, unattractive, twitchy, incredibly nasty man who brought all of his own misfortune on himself and had to work to redeem himself. This is what makes him so interesting as a character.
It makes me sad that the movies turned Ron Weasley into a piece of shit, and Ginny into a complete nonentity when in reality he wasn’t, and neither was she.
Movie!Ginny had less personalty than a broken chair. But I don’t hate her because she deserved so much better, she got less and less of screentime and they completely demolished her characters, so I don’t hate, I just feel really bad.
Hermione, I don’t like her because she got other character traits, lines and screentime, but I still feel bad because Book!Hermione was amazing in her own way but movie!Hermione was just so boring.
Movie!Ginny got nothing while Movie!Hermione got everything
Movie!Ginny got nothing while Movie!Hermione got everything
JKR: Dumbledore is the only gay character in the Harry Potter series
Devon and Alfred:
How could you forget about:
Do you ever feel like most of the HP cast understood their characters better than JK Rowling did?
Except Bonnie Wright. She wasn’t a good Ginny.
I think she did fine, considering how little she was given to work with. Steve Kloves (the screen-writer for all the HP series except OOTP) had an irrational dislike of the entire Weasley family (just look what he did to Ron), and wanted Harry and Hermione to become a couple instead of Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny. That’s why Bonnie Wright (and, to a lesser extent, Rupert Grint) was given so little to do in the later films.
If you look at the behind-the-scenes footage, Bonnie really did capture Ginny’s spirit really well. It was just never allowed to be in the films (a couple of scenes notwithstanding).
Well to each their own. But I was judging Bonnie Wright based off if her performance in the movies and her portrayal of Ginny Weasley. Behind the scenes can just be her as a person.
Her acting in the films seemed stiff and forced. The few lines she had always seemed to be delivered with a stoney face. Actors can be given a few lines in any movie and still make a great impression with the audience and become fan favorites. But that wasn’t the case for me.
Fair enough. I personally quite like Bonnie as Ginny; I think some of what you mentioned might be chalked up to the directors. But, then again, I don’t like Emma Watson’s portrayal of Hermione because I thought her acting (especially after GOF) was flat and stiff. I suppose we can agree to disagree on this.
JKR: Dumbledore is the only gay character in the Harry Potter series
Devon and Alfred:
How could you forget about:
Do you ever feel like most of the HP cast understood their characters better than JK Rowling did?
Except Bonnie Wright. She wasn’t a good Ginny.
I think she did fine, considering how little she was given to work with. Steve Kloves (the screen-writer for all the HP series except OOTP) had an irrational dislike of the entire Weasley family (just look what he did to Ron), and wanted Harry and Hermione to become a couple instead of Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny. That’s why Bonnie Wright (and, to a lesser extent, Rupert Grint) was given so little to do in the later films.
If you look at the behind-the-scenes footage, Bonnie really did capture Ginny’s spirit really well. It was just never allowed to be in the films (a couple of scenes notwithstanding).
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