Stupid Directors.

I was trawling through Facebook when I came across this photo, and it struck something inside me that made me think, 'I have to agree with this on some levels'. I love the book Tonks and Remus, I love their relationship because there was so much love between them, despite the odds and what society thought of them - it was beautiful, and proved how the power of love can beat anything, even being a werewolf.

I love David Thewlis and Natalia Tena too -they're exactly how I pictured Remus and Tonks would be, they were fantastic as individual characters and I generally love them both. But the lack of attention and focus the film put on them made their relationship come across as something that didn't even seem like it happened. I was horribly disappointed. They tried: you can see how the actors tried to show the chemistry between the characters, but with the lines and the screen-time the directors gave them, it ended up as a pathetic attempt to show a beautiful love story.

          

These are two beautiful people, who, despite their age gap, manage to suit one another very well. Now I don't generally ship real people together but I stand by myself when I say that they would go well together. However, since I'm avoiding that topic because I don't like it, I will say this: the actors get on well. They appear to go well physically. They both portray their individual characters brilliantly. The characters the film characters are based on book characters who have marvellous chemistry and made a beautiful love story, and when we do see the characters together in the films we can see the actors' efforts to make it seem like they are in a relationship, albeit a strange one, but that's kind of what it's like in the books. What the films lack is content on their part of the storyline. That is why the couple seem to be a pointless ship to anyone who has not yet read the books, not because they have no chemistry (I can see it between them, even if nobody else can) but because the films don't show that chemistry. The actors can't go against the script and just add bits in, as much as I'd love them to. They do whatever's written on the script, and fill the bits in between with their own characterization. It wasn't "hi we're here, we have no chemistry but OH LOOK WE'RE HAVING A BABY and dead", it was more like "hey, we're here, we're trying to show you something about us... hey, no, back to us, let us just show you something about us... no? OKAY NOW WE'RE HAVING A BABY, YOU MISSED THE REASONING AND YOU'RE STILL NOT LOOKING! Now we're dead, and apparently we have a son but nobody has any idea why because YOU SKIPPED THAT BIT. Great. Thanks."

Argh.