some thoughts about the next movie

[huntergreen_3]

--- mcmaxslb <McGregorMax at e...> wrote:
> I don't see what the fuss is about Hermione's outfit
> in PoA. It
> looked like something any girl would wear and not
> particularity
> glamorous. However you not the only one who got the
> feeling that
> Cuaron&Kolves wanted to make 'Hermione Granger and
> the PoA'.

Kathryn replied:
>>One of the problems with her outfit is that it dates
the movie. Hermione's clothes are clearly 2003 when
the story really takes place in 1993.<<

Rebecca:
Not to get into *this* argument again but...what exactly about jeans 
and a jacket "dates" the story? I don't see a lot of kids running 
around in pink now either, its never been too popular a color, but it 
was more in the early nineties then it is now. (FYI, I had a jacket 
*very* much like that in the late '80s, same color and everything). 
Zip-up-jackets have been around for awhile, just because they are 
getting very popular now, doesn't mean they *just now* started being 
a common thing to wear. 
And as for the story taking place in 1993, that is sort of an obscure 
fact. Unless you take the time to do the math with Nick's deathday, 
or have looked at the timeline on the CoS disc (which I have never 
been able to find), you wouldn't know when the books are set. I 
wasn't aware of it until I entered the fandom. Besides, books are 
books, and movies are movies. The deathday wasn't included in the CoS 
movie, so the movies could be set in present time for all we know. 
Even if its not, these are not meant to be 'period' movies, so the 
date they're set in has nothing at all to do with the story.

As for Hermione's outfit seeming out of place for her, it was just a 
little tighter and 'cuter' than you'd expect "bookish" Hermione (or 
her dowdy parents) to pick out for herself. Of course its *possible* 
that she would, but it ruins her 'transformation' at the Yule Ball in 
GoF to have her already look cute in PoA.