Are the Harry Potter Films Better Than The Books?

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Beauty is in the eye of the onlooker. Art is subjective. Music and movies aren’t about tournament; they’re about artistic saying. Well, for those of you who know better than to believe those lies, welcome to another installment of Vs . This time, we figure out if the Harry Potter journals or cinemas are more magical.

In 2001, J.K. Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter books kicked off their parallel passage as the types of sustainable, decade-long movie franchise that modern movie studios have come to covet above most interesting thing. The extent of Rowling’s world was tailor-made for film adaptations, the fictions so rich in detail that any filmmaker with even a little bit of vision could build extraordinary things out of them.

Yet at times, it’s difficult to truly compare the two. The film series, by the very nature of cinema and the necessities of building movies that could evenly appeal to both die-hard fans and beginners, had to cut so many of the smaller tales and side passages that constructed the books so rich. Likewise, the cinemas had the advantage of paring the stories down to their most essential elements, in hopes of carrying the fictions’ deep emotional and social resonance in far less time. Each gives its own pleasures, and liking is often as simple such matters as which one you grew up with. If you grew up speaking the books, such relationships will always be different. If you’re among the people for whom ad nauseam replays of the movies on ABC Family( or sorry, Freeform) were a childhood touchstone, you might be of a different belief as well.

We won’t feign that we can resolve the debate any more definitively than anybody else who’s tried, but that’s hardly deterred us from taking a rift at it all the same. We’ve put each of the novels and cinemas head-to-head and hope to help continue the discussion of which job stands at the forefront of accomplishment. If you’ve had hassle shedding light on your own thinks about this, let us offer a helpful lumos. In the head-to-head debate, who’ll emerge as Head Boy of each of its serial?

-Dominick Suzanne-Mayer Film Editor

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