Books and movies each have strengths as a medium that the other doesn’t. I think problems arise when movies try to cover everything and be everything that books are; and likewise books suck when they don’t play to their point (ahem I Am Number Four ahem) as a medium.

But a strong adaptation shouldn’t pin book against movie, the strengths of film as a medium should shine through, and I know they get it wrong a lot of the time. I want to cry over most of the HP movies because they’re bad movies. But sometimes they get it oh-so-right. And I think we can help them get it right by shifting our perception of what we’re about to see. Sometimes the message truly is the medium.