[HPFGU-Movie]POA trailer

[JBillones]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, patientx3 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/30/2003 9:25:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> willow58 at c... writes:
> >  I do not want deviations from the book.  I am watching the
> >  movies because I like the books.   I think there is plenty of
> >  things in the books to choose from that they do not have to
> >  make up their own stuff.   

> I suppose then you'll have to either grin and bear it or not
> see the movies.  I've heard from people who don't like seeing
> movies based on their favorite books because it ruins it, and you
> may just fall under that heading. The things added to the movies
> that aren't from the books are just little things anyway, 
> and I think its usually for humor or to explain the story better.

Like many things in life, It Depends.

Some films do a very good job of reducing hundreds of pages of
text into a two hour film format (plus or minus an hour :).
A writer with respect for the source material will retain both
the letter and spirit of the book, adding very little of their
own.  I think Steven Kloves has done a tremendous job in that
department, as there have been relatively few departures from
canon so far (and most have been due to time constraints).

Other films do a poor job of adapting the source, being more of
an ego-trip of the writer & director than an attempt to honor
the source.  The recent "Battlestar Galactica" miniseries is
a good example: adequate enough on its own merits, but it made
very little effort to honor the source material, so much so
that it might have been better off trying to be an original
story than attempting (and failing) to leverage the good
will of the original.

-- 
Jeremy Billones