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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