Intro/Movie impressions
ftah3
ftah3 at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 19 13:25:32 UTC 2001
Hello!
Meghan wrote:
>I was looking
> forward to the movie so much because I thought it would add
something
> that the books didn't. A different interpretation, maybe? I wasn't
> expecting a (nearly) carbon copy of the first book and that was a
> disappointment.
You know, this was what I liked about the movie! I felt as if all of
the things I'd loved had sprung up alive and full-fleshed. Like a
dream I'd had turned out to be real, so to speak. It felt as if it
had JKR's voice, her spirit, and her personality, just like the
books, and I liked that a lot.
I don't know what I would have thought about a re-interpretation. I
guess I doubt the ability of any director/screen writer to capture
what I love about JKR's writing and the Harry Potter world, so I'd be
skeered by any attempt thereby.
But I do understand what you're saying; for example, as excellent a
work as is Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice," I don't think it would
translate to the screen whole-cloth very well, and I think the
BBC/A&E version, wherein the script and the actors unfused the
situations and characters with such wonderful and slight but
decidedly derivative interpretations, was the perfect way to go.
Mahoney
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