[HPFGU-Movie] Third Movie let down???

[Emily Rose]

on 8/9/03 11:46 PM, dally1025 at dally_1025 at hotmail.com wrote:

> Since the PoA is my favorite in the series, I am looking forward to
> this movie more than the other two.  After looking at the some of the
> released pictures from the film, I'm starting to feel like it is
> going to be a major let-down.  The characters seem to be wearing
> muggle clothes and it doesn't seem to contain the fantasy I loved so
> much.  I guess I won't know for sure until next June, just thought I
> would see if anyone has the same concerns.
> Cera
> 
> 
> 
I have a lot of friends who are Lord of the Rings fans who felt the same way
before Peter Jackson¹s movie came out.  They were all avid fans of the books
and when they looked at movie stills there response was and irate ³Peter
Jackson is messing up my favorite book!² No one was happy about it.  I too
am an avid Lord of the Rings fan.  I¹ve read the novels eleven times and the
Silmarillion twice.  (If you¹ve ever read the Silmarillion, you know reading
that one book twice is a greater feat than reading the other 3 eleven times.
:-)  My take on the movies was a little less extreme -  I was looking
forward to see how Peter Jackson saw these novels that were so dear to me.
(BTW The first Harry Potter came out a few months earlier and I took a
similar view.  My Harry Potter was never going to end up on screen ­ only
another¹s interpretation.)

After the Lord of the Rings:Fellowship came out my friends divided into two
camps.  Some loved what Peter Jackson did and others were completely let
down and writing angry letters to New Line.  My view never wavered.  What I
saw was how Peter Jackson decided to make a very long complex novel into a
movie.  He cut a few things, moved some stuff around, and made a movie that
for the most part was the first book of Lord of the Rings.  I thought it was
pretty good too.  There were a few things that weren¹t how I imagined them ­
none of the actors looked like how I imagined the characters to look, but
hey, if I wanted that I should have made the movie!  In the end, no Peter
Jackson didn¹t make Lord of the Rings exactly how I saw it, he made it
exactly how he (and the other writers) saw it and that was very cool to
watch.

Prisoner is my favorite of the Harry Potter books too and once again, I
expect to see a director¹s interpretation.  Until they can create a
technology to draw out of my head how I see these books in my minds eye, no
one is going to get it even close.  But I do so enjoy seeing the differences
and sometimes they are wonderful.  I love how Dudley fell into the snake¹s
cage in the first movie instead of just having the snake escape and in the
second movie the Burrow was even crazier and fantastic than I ever could
have imagined.  So if the new director is going to get his point across by
putting Hermione in a pink sweat shirt so be it.  I¹ll go see the movie and
decide then if I like it as a film interpretation of Prisoner of Azkaban.
If I do, then cool, it¹s another way to experience a favorite, if I don¹t
well, then I won¹t watch it again.  Either way I¹m looking forward to next
June.

-e


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