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

[Kriselda Jarnsaxa]

LeeMunLim03 at aol.com recently mentioned:

>If you change the appearance of Dobby would you mind??  That woudnt change
>the film??  If they changed Cornuleius Fugde that wouldnt change the 
>film??  You
>won't excited to see all the cast in the chamber of secrets???  Since there
>as been a new Dumbledore Alfonso has made so many changes.  What is next??

Alfonso has NO CHOICE about changing Dumbledore - Richard Harris 
*died*.  There was no physical way he could possibly appear in the new 
movie, and we haven't gotten to the point where they could just digitally 
create him (and even if they could, I sure wouldn't want them 
to!).  Changing Dumbledore isn't Cuaron's fault - it's God or fate or 
whatever it is you think determines when someone's time on this Earth is 
done.  Even if Chris Columbus were still directing the films, we'd have a 
new Dumbledore.

A lot of movie series make changes without it hurting the movie 
overall.  Look at the Star Trek franchise.  Almost every movie has a 
differently designed Enterprise, the uniforms get tweaked periodically 
(during the Next Generation series, they even changed the uniforms at least 
once between series seasons), the entire look of the Klingons and the 
Romulans has changed from the original series - LOTS of things got changed 
- and yet, for the most part, Star Trek fans still managed to enjoy the 
movies (well, at least the even-numbered ones - its something of a 
tradition that the odd-numbered ones were bad) and most fans just overlook 
the more superficial changes.  Same with the James Bond films - James has 
been played by a number of different actors, and the character of "M", who 
used to be played by a man, has more recently become a woman. That's 
another series where there have been tons of changes, and yet the core fan 
base still loves the movies as much as they ever did. Now, maybe neither of 
those series are "high art", but the audience they're aimed at enjoy them 
and tend to keep going back for more....


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