Books that were better than the movies

Now I want to talk to you about something I have recently learnt with Harry Potter recently and comparing the movies and the books too.

Before I get into it however I should let you know that I know these are full of huge plotholes. Even while listening to the books I can tell you hundreds of plotholes in the same chapter sometimes even without going through, "Everything wrong with the harry potter movies" on youtube. I am aware of these plotholes but I still keep moving forward.

What I love about the books is the general everyday talk about normal stuff going on in everyone's day to day life. Things that if a director wanted to make into a movie will willingly gloss over because "drama or emotion enducing sequences" take more precedence.

In the last book I actually skipped the whole chapter about the fight at the ministry because I didn't think them important at all. I knew them already but I was more into I guess normal dialogues and the end chapter explanations by Dumbeldore. Things that are in my memory are them cleaning the house, cleaning the garden of gnomes, Ron going upto the girls dormitory and falling flat, their normal everyday life of students and so so many many more memories (LOL I said memories as if it really happened with me or something).

Now that I think about it even with the recent book about the Boudelare's children I was really more interested in the normal day to day activites that doesn't have to be full of drama with every second like the movies and it is also interesteing to see that the people who completely stick to the movies/tv shows miss out this particular aspect. Even with long TV series what I have seen is that movie/tv makers knowingly gloss over or skip over "day to day stuff that makes us human" whenever there is an adaptation and care about more "emotion enducing scenes".

One of the tragic examples is harry Potter's 6th book where the love affair took center stage in this when there were so so many stuff that they could have focussed on instead in the movies, yes the love affair with Ron Hermoine and Lavendar Brown was a small part of this book but there was so so much more that would have been more important than emotion-enducing.

It feels to me that the parts of the books that are selected for video entertainment are again, "emotion enducing" whereas when I listen to book I really like the part of the books that I guess makes them human. Maybe this is also the reason I can't get into complete magic books where there are no connection with real humans or for that matter even TV shows or movies. Like I love Dark but mainly because the humans lives and how they have been changed rather than actual sci-fi aspect. I love sci-fi, I really do, UFO aliens, time travel, the lot, but what I am more interested is I guess how it affects the people in it.

Now, there is one more thing I want to talk to you about. It's the general dumbing down of stuff from the books into the movies. In the 6th Harry Potter movie, Luna Lovegood who has been established only believes in stuff as long as there is no actual proof in them and her imaginations are just imaginations and not really gronded in reality. She wears a sort of googles in the movie and starts checking train compartment to find whatever it was on Harry's head due to which she was able to see him under the invisibiliyt cloak. This was completely outrageous in my opinion. In the movie there is a much more logical reasoning when Tonks comes to check and finds a compartment with the drapes down and tries to find him instead here just for the sake of entertainment the logic has been pushed aside and sort of confirmed that whatever backward ass story Luna is thinking is actually true.

This makes me think that movies will always dumb down stuff for the audience, always. They will always prefer grandure, emotions, dopamine and not I should say, "things that make us human."

I wanted to talk about A man called Ove/Ovah or Otto. I had wathced the movie already. Don't remember the ending exactly but I had liked the movie but that's the thing, apart drom the trailer of the movie I can't really remember a good moment in the movie at all.

And I suspected this and that's why I had my reserve before starting the book. I finally did and I have not even been through 30mins of the book and I am already creating memories, sad and funny, normal and just boring day and small humours moments. I thought I would not be able to do that since I had already watched the movie.

And I do get the images from the movie in my head again and again and I try my best to shove it aside. Despite this I have already formed quite a lot of memories(Yes, memories as if I was actually in the story) like Ovah telling the lanky neighbour that he shouldn't even be allowed to reverse a cassete tape let alone a car. Also just subtle writing like the door opened as if it opened out of fear by itself and he disliked the woman a little less.

Later:
I was dreading listening to A Man called Ova. I had watched the movie and I expected something amazing. So i kept positioning it and after to it, it was amazing... Almost cried at the end. However I am breaking my earlier habit of watching a movie just after reading the book it is based on. I beleive it helps me visualise the characters and events but they are feel hollow and I believe they break the stuff I have created in my head