More PoA pics

[Dan Feeney]

dan:
> > Look at the still with Minerva. There's more grace and subtlty in 
> > that picture than in the entire 2 Columbus travesties. 
> 
>Sara-ELL: 
> You can't really judge a whole perfomance on a single still photo 
now 
> Dan! 

Well, in fact, the single photo does tell me a lot about Cauron's 
intentions, plus knowing an example of his work - as someone called 
it, naturalistic. Nevertheless, I wasn't judging Cauron's unseen 
film, I was judging Columbus' seen ones.

> Slightly OT but - I personally don't give two figs as to what AS 
> Byatt thinks of Harry Potter.I have never needed the validation of 
> anyone else, especially so-called 'intellectuals', to feel secure 
in 
> my literary or cinematic viewing choices in the past, present and 
(I 
> sincerely hope) future.

Whether or not you care about what Byatt says, having read her slam, 
one can accused Columbus of having that very approach to the films. 
It's not that she's an "intellectual", nor is there any sense that 
one "needs" validation. Byatt may be irrelevant, but her slam was 
dead on as far as the films go. That is what I think - that is my 
response to Columbus. Not to Rowling. The movies are amusing, but 
trite, verging on the insipid. The only reason I watch them is to 
have another HP diversion. Nothing in the films is actually all that 
interesting, except the Quidditch and Riddle's Dumbledore and Hagrid 
encounters. They're very VICE SQUAD, they're maudlin, they lack any 
sense of the ethical underpinnings of Rowling's work, opting instead 
for cheesy melodramatic moralism. I think Cauron will do a way better 
job. (Not that difficult.)

that's all.

dan.