Really don't remember Charlie well enough to comment.
I really ought to reread Matilda the book, and probably will, so I can discuss more (and try to avoid just posting book vs movie, since I think both are interesting in their own right and not just in the ways the movie desecrates changes the book.
*wins!
Yeah. I'm not a fan of Gryffindors or Gryffindor-type heroes in most 'verses and associate them with blind idealism and the Gene Roddenberry heroes - the Kirks of the world. And yeah. Not a fan. (Though in the HP-verse itself, I do like the Gryffindors more than the Slytherins. In the larger 'verse, characters who'd be sorted Slytherin are interesting, but Rowling's villains, not so much [except for Snape]).
And that's a bizarre unrealism the movie is working if she's supposed to have all her knowledge from books and superpowers she retains even after finding her intellectual niche.
Yup. It's wicked annoying. I think there's something to be said about the shift in values from Dahl's book to the American cinema... I think there's a far more striking theme of independence from authority in the movie (though still with the needing to reread the book!). And also the total lack of logic with the magical powers.
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Date: 2006-02-09 03:41 am (UTC)I really ought to reread Matilda the book, and probably will, so I can discuss more (and try to avoid just posting book vs movie, since I think both are interesting in their own right and not just in the ways the movie
desecrateschanges the book.*wins!
Yeah. I'm not a fan of Gryffindors or Gryffindor-type heroes in most 'verses and associate them with blind idealism and the Gene Roddenberry heroes - the Kirks of the world. And yeah. Not a fan. (Though in the HP-verse itself, I do like the Gryffindors more than the Slytherins. In the larger 'verse, characters who'd be sorted Slytherin are interesting, but Rowling's villains, not so much [except for Snape]).
And that's a bizarre unrealism the movie is working if she's supposed to have all her knowledge from books and superpowers she retains even after finding her intellectual niche.
Yup. It's wicked annoying. I think there's something to be said about the shift in values from Dahl's book to the American cinema... I think there's a far more striking theme of independence from authority in the movie (though still with the needing to reread the book!). And also the total lack of logic with the magical powers.