ADMIN: Posting Rule Change - No Movie Discussion on Main List

[Petra]

Geoff, in HPFGU-Feedback message #471:
> Which means that we may have to start playing
> leapfrog between lists. I also belong to the
> Movie group but, because I have limited time
> and I concentrate on the main list, I get to
> that group about once a month. It is draconian
> to suggest that /any/ film support is off-
> limits. For example, is it now going to be
> ruled that C S Lewis or J R R Tolkien as
> inadmissable?

Though I can sympathize with your being indignant
about possibly becoming inconvenienced with having 
to leapfrog between lists (dare I guess that this 
is one reason why people hate posting OT posts 
at OTC where they belong?!) I am at a loss as to 
why you dread the unlikely event that mentions 
of the *literary* figures Lewis and Tolkien in a 
post would send you hopping to the *movie* list.

For what it's worth, I had laid out why I 
consider films to not be canon in 

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie/message/4605

"To add to the various objections raised already
in other posts, I would like to point out that to
cite JKR's influence on the screenwriter as
support for canonizing the movies relies on an
assumption that what we all saw on the screen/DVD
is exactly as Kloves had set down on paper.

This assumption would be incorrect."

and

"the movie
as envisioned by Kloves should be represented by
the shooting draft. His vision then underwent 14
revisions. Some of these revisions are major,
some are minor, and some seem to bear the
fingerprints of person(s) other than the one who
originally set the shooting draft down on paper.
This is too many degrees of separation from JKR
for my comfort - to canonize materials that can
only claim tacit approval from JKR seem rather
dodgy to me"

You might find the discussion around there 
about whether or not HP films should be 
considered HP canon to be of interest.

I also ended up touching upon this issue in 

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie/message/5423 and
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie/message/5443

if you care to check out that conversation.

Petra
a
n  :)



	
		
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