Great Advice, and a call for Eye Color Info

[Lilac]

I found this great post on The Leaky Cauldron's archives refering to last year's movie.  It is helping me get out any vestiges of movie anxiety I have left, and hopefully it will help anyone else out there do the same  So here it is...

<<<Here's a great little post to the HPforGrownUps list from Amanda Lewanski about the First Trailer, who sums it up nicely:
For all of you out there who have memorized the book, and are going crazy trying to place the now-infamous "Screaming Scene" from the trailer--I have a therapy program! 
Amanda's Pre-Release Movie Letdown Avoidance Therapy for Potter Obsessives

   Become familiar with the following definitions: 

      "adapt" -- to make fit (as for a specific or new use) often by modification 
      "adaptation" -- something that is adapted: specif. a composition rewritten into a new form. 



Repeat these definitions aloud until you can say "modification" and "rewritten" without choking, coughing, gagging, passing out, or other generally negative reactions.



   Go to the various HP sites, and follow links to various JKR, screenwriter, etc., interviews, and read again how they are encouraging her input, trying to remain true to her vision, etc. 




   Realize that JKR's vision is a broad one, not necessarily confined to the specific words in the book, no matter how we might have our favorite lines. 




   Watch the trailer again (or view%20the%20stills, for those of you like me who have computer imps who delight in confounding you), and soak up the atmosphere. Realize that in the face of most of our experience with movie adaptations, they seem to have accurately caught the "feel" of the world and the character of its inhabitants. 




   Remember that the special effects are being done by some of the finest effects people on the planet. 




   Remember that the cast is, unbelievably, talented enough to keep the focus on THEM and not on the special effects. 



Okay, are you calmed down now? Because without a doubt there will be major things that have been altered. I'm certain the screaming scene is either the troll or Fluffy, and we all know they're dressed wrong. So what? Some changes must be made for an adaptation to screen. Plot devices are compressed, some things are left out, etc. Because the goal is a film that can translate the STORY told in the book, not the book itself.

I'm approaching the film as a version of a story I love, and I'm not too worried. I do understand that quality pieces (actors, effects, music, etc.) do not necessarily make a quality whole, but JKR's involvement, and now the trailer, seems to indicate that this is going to be really good>>>

Here's the actual archive url:

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2001_06_24_archive.html

Good advice, eh?  Thanks Amanda Lewensky!  I needed to hear that for this year.

Also, does anyone know of any quotes from JKR, Chris Columbus or David Heyman regarding Harry's movie eye color?  I'm trying to do some research on the matter, but I'm having no luck.  I would appreciate any info anyone knows about! 

Thanks ever so much!

 

 



 

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"Tut, tut --- hardly any of you remembered that my favorite color is *lilac*. 

I say so in Year with the Yeti."         --Gilderoy Lockhart, COS



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