[HPFGU-Movie] An interesting conundrum

[WatermelonSugar7 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/16/01 8:56:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
caliburncy at yahoo.com writes:


> So all in all, I think the film functions well as purely ANCILLARY to 
> the book, but seems to fall short when left to its own devices.  It's 
> a wonderful addition to the Potter universe for those who are already 
> fans, but is likely to be fairly unappreciable anyone that isn't.
> 

I think this perfectly illustrates the truth of something I saw posted over 
on the PoU list, by Cassie. Someone had asked what several things were and 
she mentioned that the movie is not canon.
Luke has made so many good points. One in particular that I personally 
noticed was the "after the troll" scene. Now, they couldn't have put in that 
famous line, "There are somethings you can't share without becoming friends, 
and knocking out a mountain trill is one of them." But how much better it 
would have been to have the "Thanks"  and then they go off, instead of the 
Quirrel scene. It would have said so much more about the friendship and that 
you rarely saw the three apart afterwards.
But, you know, I think, and I've said before, they were trying to appeal to 
so many ages, and possily, the younger kids, some anyway, enjoyed the 
Quirrel?troll scene more.

And because the film IS ancilliary, those of us who are older and granted, 
have gone a lot further into fandom, fanfic, analyzing every word and 
gesture... we HAVE all that other stuff to enjoy. The kids who are just 
reading the books, or some who've had the books read to them, may need 
different things from the movie. 
I definitely agree with what you've said but at the same time, can kind of 
see why it was done as it was. 
~Ashleigh, who lives under the Curse of Cbjectivity


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