kerrybaps

I do enjoy storytelling in video games – it’s so different from other things of storytelling in media.

This is a super interesting piece. I too find it difficult to decide when it’s appropriate to separate art from the creator. In the end, I do feel like it comes down to whether they’re alive or not, and whether they have been idealized in the mind. For example, people like Roald Dahl and Dr Suess are questionable but they have such a bit impact on people’s childhood that the emotion their works created seems more powerful than the terrible beliefs they held.

I really like this analysis. While we all know that the main villain is Voldemort, he isn’t the only adversary that Harry faces. Your comparisons to Harry’s foes in comparison to where he is in age and development was really interesting!

I think adaptations from book to film are a hard transition to handle. Books are, usually, dense. They go into detail with things don’t translate to film. In turn, film production has a certain expectation of what should be included in a film in that demographic – for example, romance and mouthy antagonists and a dramatic climax. Books can have all these things but it’s when these are added or amped up for the film that tends to cause problems.
Obviously, there are a few small changes that tend to annoy some fans but usually, if the arc of the characters and the important aspects of the story are included, the majority are okay.
For example, in the Harry Potter movies, I accepted the fact that I wouldn’t get my marauders scene in the 5th film because it wasn’t overly relevant to everything else. However, I was really annoyed by seeing young brown-eyed Lily in the last film because they’d spent the films previous repeating ‘you have your mother’s eyes’.
I also think that it comes to the scriptwriters’ and producers’ understanding of the story. Game of Thrones is a massive example of that.

I think Mulan has the potential to break the curve by taking a different route to a familiar story. However, the power of nostalgia seems to be something of increasing effect over the public so it’s a difficult situation that Disney must balance upon.