Movies as canon?

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Deidre <deidre at p...> wrote:
>I think what must be kept in mind is 
> that these films are *based* upon the books, and aren't going to 
ever be 
> straight adaptions of the novels. Pity about that, but that's how 
things 
> often work when translating from one media to another. I suppose 
that is 
> why it is so hard for me to get over the changes in the HP movies, 
since 
> JKR already did such a good job in her books of *showing* us the 
whole 
> story, up to this point....In the end, this is what steams me about 
the HP movies, we 
> already had the showing, and it just needed to be translated to the 
screen 
> better than it has been, esp in CoS. *shrugs* Oh well, I could go 
on this 
> point all day. <g>
> 
> Deidre, who likes canon as well

This is something I noticed right away - JRK's writing style is 
very "cinematic". She has a great way of describing things so that 
you can visualize them happening on screen. I read both SS and CoS 
before seeing TMTMNBN(1) and in both cases I really could imagine how 
the scenes played out. Thus I've been a tad disappointed with (though 
not aghast at) at both HP movies. I hope Alfonso Cuaron is able to 
capture more of that cinematic quality in PoA than Chris Columbus did 
in SS and CoS. Or maybe I just hope Cuaron will make fewer seemingly 
random changes than Columbus did. Maybe I should hope that Steve 
Kloves writes a better screenplay...

Anne U
(let's hope the third time *is* the charm for HP movies)