On clothes and the time of the action in POA

[HunterGreen]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "torillgrnhaug" 
<torillgrnhaug at y...> wrote:
[snip]
>I disagree that their casual clothes have to be according to
> actual early nineties clothes, making the films some sort of "retro"
> films. To me there is a difference with the impact of what in the
> fandom has come to be called  "canon", and the actual literary text 
of
> the books. 
[snip] 
>I actually think it
> is important to read a book independent of whatever the author has 
to
> say about how it was intended - it's the text that's supposed to 
speak
> to you, and it can be read in many different ways, some of whom 
might
> even surprise the author, but still be possible from the text. 
[snip]
> Because after all, where's the source for the "early nineties" idea?
> Based on some clues in the books, like the Deathday Party, fans have
> been calculating a timeline and decided the action must take place 
in
> the early nineties. Then a timeline is added to the special stuff on
> the COS DVD, confirming some of this calculation. 
> 
> OK. But the TEXT - the books as litterature, never mentions any 
dates
> at all. 
[snip]
> If the story was
> supposed to be realistically situated in the early nineties, then we
> could all scream about mistakes, as some has done already about a
> thing like Dudley having playstation. 

Nice post (o;

I completely agree with how silly it is to complain that their 
clothes don't match the styles of the early nineties. Until I had 
joined newgroups on this subject, I had no idea of this timeline, and 
it would have been really odd for them to be in early nineties 
clothes, as it would for anyone who hasn't read the books (unless the 
movies went out of their way to MENTION the date). Perhaps the books 
do take place in the early nineties, but it seems pretty clear that 
the MOVIES take place in present time (and since the date has no 
effect on the plot, it doesn't matter), which makes things a lot 
simplier, there are more important things to worry about besides 
having to dress the actors in retro clothes.

just my .02 cents


-Rebecca