Dobby & being picky

[alhewison]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., fsuass at a... wrote:
>
> I know someone has already pointed this out previously on this 
list, but if 
> you look at the Chapter Two of Chamber of Secrets, you'll see that 
the CGI 
> rendering of Dobby is actually very close to Mary Granpre's 
illustration. 
> What more is it that people are looking for?
> 
> Jen, 
> Who rarely posts but is wondering what all the fuss is about
> 
In the UK Harry Potter books there are no illustrations. I can accept 
that Dobby looks like the US illustrations and was probably agreed by 
JKR. But, the Dobby they have shown is nothing like the one I've 
imagined. My Dobby is cuddily - and also hairy and possum like. The 
screen Dobby isn't cute - well not to me anyway. Seeing more of him 
might help (I hope).

I don't quite understand the picture of Harry and Hedwig either. It 
looks to me like they are looking out over a loch in Scotland. It 
looks beautiful, but I can't quite relate it to the book. I keep 
wondering if it's meant to be Harry looking out over the Hogwarts 
lake - but it doesn't seem to fit the lake descriptions (well not to 
me anyway). Artistic licence, which as it looks nice I'll live with!

Harry's bedroom is actually more dreary than I imagined it. I just 
thought that as the room had previously been Dudley's spare, it would 
actually look ok. I can live with that though as I never felt the 
Dursley house was quite "right" in PS/SS.

I know this sounds very nitpicky - and it is. I think that's the 
trouble with any film version of a book. It's somebody else's 
interpretation, not your own.  The minute anything is altered from 
the books, or our impression of the books, thousands of us will 
notice. Then ultimately, our enjoyment of the film will be determined 
not by how similar the film is to the book, but how much the film 
manages to retain the essence of the book, but still be good in it's 
own right.

Actually, despite reservations I had about PS/SS film, they managed 
to get alot of the characters, Hogwarts and Quidditch just as I had 
imagined them. I don't think it's a great film, but I do love it. 
What concerns me about this new teaser trailer is that I *personally* 
don't feel particularly enticed by it (although I did love the car 
scene).

Ali