Will they always be the "Harry Potter Kids"

[zephyrjaid7]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> What i would really like is to read more of Daniel's writing. The
> comment he made about Santa Claus in Reader's Digest was an amazing
> piece of writing for someone so young.
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/14016
>

Funny you should mention that. I just cleaned out my desk and I found 
that issue of Reader's Digest and I couldn't remember why I kept it - 
so I read the entire thing until I found Daniel's "The Man in the Red 
Suit." I really agree with you about his writing - there's such 
whimsy. It's hard not to fall in love with it. 

bboy_mn:
> Daniel-
> I think it is easy to see that Daniel is an extremely intelligent 
and
> talented boy. I think he has great potential in life if he doesn't
> allow himself to become spoiled by fame, or turn into a wild party
> animal. 
> 
> I think, much like Hermione, being an only child of intelligent
> involved parents, has made Dan far more sophisticated than most kids
> his age. 

I truly don't see Daniel becoming spoiled by fame or turning into a 
party animal. He already has such a sense of where he stands in the 
world and seems to appreciate it. His parents have definitely given 
him a solid foundation of morals and it doesn't seem that they've 
taught him to take them lightly. Plus, I think he has too many people 
behind him that wouldn't allow him to get above himself, like David 
Heyman. He's surrounded by people that expect him to handle the fame 
admirably, just like he's done in the past.

As far as continuing his career in film, I can completely see him 
remaining successful. He's said may do a role to disassociate himself 
from Harry Potter and I'm sure that if he did that, he'd continue to 
flourish. His work in David Copperfield was entirely different from 
HP and yet still as enchanting (no pun intended). I can already 
disconnect Dan from Harry in my mind and HP mania is at its peak. 
Plus his various interests, like punk music, are perfect material for 
films that he might want to write.  I don't necessarily believe he'll 
continue to act forever, but I have no doubt that he'll remain in 
film. He just boggles my mind because everything that comes out of 
his mouth is exactly the same as what would come out of mine - we 
share favorite films, favorite music, similar upbringings, same age - 
but most importantly, he seems to focus on what my family calls The 
Triangle: screenwriting/directing/acting. It's like a package 
deal. ;) If he were not as interested in The Triangle as he has 
expressed, I think I might not feel so utterly confident that he'll 
remain in the movies, whether behind the screen or in the 
limelight.   

Obviously I feel a great affinity with Dan and I'm somewhat biased, 
but he's *me.* I can't help it. :D

***

I edited out a lot of what you said because I agree wholeheartedly 
and find it pointless to say "me too." I just wanted to make a 
general comment that (kind of) relates to what you had to say.

I was watching an episode of Oprah yesterday that concentrated on 
people who had extremely successful careers, but they just didn't 
have the passion for it and decided to give up their stable jobs to 
focus on what careers really invoked enthusiasm in them. One of the 
guests was a man who gave up his own career to write, and he said 
(I'm paraphrasing) that you should look at careers that are related 
to things your mind is naturally attracted to. Dan and Rupert have 
both said that they've wanted to act even at a very young age. I 
think that tells a lot. Anyway - just throwing that out there. 
  
bboy_mn:
> General-
> The saving grace for all these actors is that they are in England. 
It
> is not uncommon for actors to move from one TV series to another to
> another to another, and they are immediately accepted as their new
> characters. One TV show could end and the very next week an actor
> could be in a new TV series without carrying his previous character
> with him. I think British audiences are a lot less likely to force
> actors into the identity of the character they play. That will give
> all the actors a chance to establish themselves in a way that would 
be
> difficult in the USA. 

This is actually why I plan on going to university in England. I feel 
that the UK community treats acting/filmmaking/theater entirely 
different than we do in America, and I tend to agree with the general 
cinema!consensus in the UK. It just seems more personal and that's 
really important to me. I'm sure Dan/Rupert/possibly Emma (I have 
doubts) will find a lot of wonderful opportunities and I'm sure 
they'll be successful. They're in a very unique situation and fate is 
completely on their side. There are too many factors that are in 
their favor for them *not* to be successful. It seems to me that it's 
a matter of what *they* want to do more than what 
critics/filmmakers/etc want them to do.  

Zeph