Third Movie let down???

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Emily Rose <jedillore at r...> 
wrote:
> on 8/9/03 11:46 PM, dally1025 at dally_1025 at h... 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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I agree. As poets have "poetic license" so do film-makers.  On the 
fact of the pink sweatshirt we also have to remember that at this 
stage the kids are beginning to be teenagers and Hermione, no 
exception made, needs to start looking like a "girl" and not just a 
part of a "trio" of friends.  Even when the books do not specify the 
clothes weared on the outings it will just make sense for them not 
to wear their robes and school formal clothing.  Also as a means of 
identification as a  "new generation" or "contemporary wizards" 
or "cool wizzards" if we may say.  IR.