[HPFGU-Movie] Re: new uniforms? & new Dumbledore

[Kriselda Jarnsaxa]

LeeMunLim03 at aol.com recently mentioned:

>Plus it was Chris Columbus who created harry potter not Alfonso Cuaron!

Um...  it was JK Rowling who created Harry Potter.  Chris Columbus may have 
done the first two films, but we was working from the same basic source 
material that Alfonso Curaon is, so there will have to be a fair amount of 
continuity.  Plus, don't forget that Rowling seems to have a fair amount of 
involvement in scripting the movies, and the script is being written by the 
same screenwriter, both of which will help ensure that thing will be rather 
similar.

>You want harry potter to end up like Batman!! fine Joan!!  Just remember 
>the last
>movie was forgetable!! Plus the changed little things too

The Batman movies were a bit of a different situation, though.  Yes, all of 
the people working on the different Batman films were working from the same 
basic material, but they were writing original stories based on that 
material, not adapting existing stories (as in the Harry Potter books) to a 
new medium.  That makes a huge difference in the quality of the stories 
themselves.  Plus, the scripts were written by different scriptwriters, so 
a lot of continuity was lost.

In this case, we *know* the story that the movie is being based on is a 
well-told tale.  That wasn't necessarily the case in the Batman movies 
where the focus was less on taking a well-told tale and making it into a 
movie that would be enjoyable by fans young and old, but rather on getting 
as many big-name stars into the film as possible to try and make it as much 
of a blockbuster as possible - which isn't the best way to go about making 
a movie, and usually has a very negative impact on the overall quality.

I know I'm going to sound like many of the people who criticized my concern 
about Gary Oldman as Sirius when I say this, but keep in mind that Alfonso 
Cuaron has already shown that he can make a "children's" movie that is not 
only enjoyed by the kids who see it, but also by the adults - and which has 
received exceptional praise from most of the critics who have reviewed it - 
"A Little Princess".

He may make a number of superficial changes to how different things look, 
and actors in a series of movies change for any number of reasons - but the 
heart of the movie is still with JK Rowling's characters and story, and 
that increases the chance of success by quite a bit.



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