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

[LeeMunLim03 at aol.com]

James Bond was totally different from harry potter.  


In a message dated 5/26/03 7:58:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
thorswitch at thunderhaven.net writes:

> 
> 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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