Haley Joel Osment re: HP

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "norsecode" <norsecode at y...> wrote:
> Read this today in the NY Post:
> 
> 
> No sour grapes 
> 
> AT least one child actor is as sick of "Harry Potter" as
> any adult. "A.I." star Haley Joel Osment is lashing out at
> the blockbuster, saying, "I thought it should have stayed
> as a book. `Harry Potter' is 70 percent imagination, but
> now it is such a stereotype for kids. When they think of
> `Harry Potter,' now they're always going to think of what
> was portrayed on the screen." 

This statement means that HJO thought the movie should not have been made at 
all because it undermines the experience of the book, NOT that he thought it 
wasn't true enough to the book.