[HPFGU-Movie] HP4GU Rules -- Adaptations (GWTW in particular) -- Film Stu...

[chattie27million at aol.com]

In a message dated 20/11/01 16:11:51 GMT Standard Time, pennylin at swbell.net 
writes:


> 
> BRITISH DIALOGUE -- Dave mentioned that he disliked the British dialogue 
> that Kloves et al employed at various points.  Is this just Dave, or do 
> other Brits agree?  Wouldn't the all British cast have made this clear 
> to Kloves, Columbus or whoever was around that the dialogue was all 
> wrong?  Wouldn't they have perhaps instinctively (ad lib) changed it 
> while filming if nothing else?  Just curious.
> 

I'm a Brit and i definitely didn't hate all the dialogue.  There were one or 
two patchy areas, I think I might have agreed before with whoever said about 
the line which goes "But how am I to buy my school things? I haven't any 
money."
For me, things like this just don't work, because I myself don't speak like 
that!! Having said that, there isn't really a specific 'british' way of 
speaking as it all depends on your background and where you are from. If 
Harry has been brought up by the Dursleys to speak properly etc. From what we 
learn in the book more so than the film, they do try their hardest to make 
themselves seem upper class as opposed to the middle class that they are, and 
this could have had some bearing on the way Harry speaks I s'pose...
Just my thoughts on that one
Hugs
Rach
xxx
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'The floor?' Harry suggested. 'I wasn't looking at it's feet, I was too busy 
with its heads.'




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