Dialogue Changes

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Borrowing from Penny:
I will use some spoiler space since I intend to talk about things from
reviews people have posted ...

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Catherine commented:

> In fact, most of the problems I had with > th film was that very good, 
humorous, original dialogue was replaced  with dialogue which was infinitely 
inferior.>

Penny said:
I have a feeling that this will be a big disappointment to me.  I must 
confess that I don't understand this at all.  What would be the 
motivation to change perfectly great dialogue if you're not streamlining 
per se?  Hmm.... maybe this will make more sense once I've seen the 
movie, but I doubt it."

My comment:
I have a feeling this has been done partly because the younger readers of the 
books and younger viewers of the movie haven't been given enough credit as to 
what they'll understand/enjoy. I suppose this was a monumental task, making 
the movie in a way that would be faithful to the book, would enable non 
readers to understand/enjoy it, and appeal to so many ages.
This isn't meant to be a defense of the dialogue changes, some of my 
favourite  parts have been omitted or changed. Columbus and Kloves may have 
read the books, but even having made the movie, they probably don't have the 
"feel" for it that so many of us do. After all, we do it for love, they do it 
for money. Let's just hope they catch the passsion. 
I may just be hoping extra hard but I think Daniel Radcliffe may have it, to 
some extent, and if so, that'll make up for a lot of omissions. It would be 
nice if he had a worthy Dumbledore though, IMO.
~Ashleigh.


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