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Books that are worse than the film (which was already bad?) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've started reading Jumper by NameDoesNotMatter. I would like to formally apologise about all the harsh things I've ever spoken about that film.

Fine, the cast is unlikeable and the action scenes are just fisticuffs in the air, but my god, in comparison to the teenage dreck that is the book, it's a masterpiece. At least they tried to build a credible back story for the main character.

In the book, he literally thinks everyone is out to sexually assault him (and somehow they seem to), he solves his problems by throwing money at it, instead of any actual creativity, and the author desperately tries to portray him as a mature-for-his-age adult, despite the fact that his first reaction to anything is crying followed by petty revenge.

I'm just flicking through the pages, pausing at any plot bits, and then flicking on.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think you could make a credible argument that some of the Harry Potter books are worse than the movies. The best example that comes to mind is making fun of Hermione for wanting to free slaves, and the other characters claiming being slaves is in their nature or something. If you had only watched the movies instead, you'd get to see the slaves are miserable, most of the good team characters don't own slaves, and Harry Potter tricks a slave owner into freeing their slave.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

In the later books Harry gets a slave and doesn't free him but its ok because the slave is rude.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Jk rolling made some really strange decisions. Some of it really makes you wonder if maybe she was being a little too honest or just too unaware to see the implications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Kreacher really wants to be a good slave, he just wants to be a good slave for the bad guys. So it's okay to abuse him, see?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I know that I was almost an adult when Harry Potter came out, but I really tried to get into them as everyone else loved them, but the writing was flat af.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

and Harry Potter tricks a slave owner into freeing their slave.

That happens in the books too. He only does it because the slave owner is a mean slave owner, though, not because slavery is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The thing is that Rowling hadn't really thought it through yet. Having the hero save a slave is pretty clearly heroic and good, and it's a nice way to wrap up the Dobby story arc, but then the fans were all like "wait WHAT!? there's slaves under Hogwarts!?" and she was forced to think it through, and it turns out JK's pretty awful so the result of her thinking it through was to make it worse.