[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Why Gambon is a Better Dumbledore Than Harris Was...

[Sherry Garfio]

--- sophiamcl <sophiamcl at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I dont know where the info came from that Cuaron had not read the 
> books, I don't think that's right. I heard him say in several 
> interveiws that once he had read the PoA script--and loved it--he 
> wnet on to read the cooresponding book, was hooked and read all of 
> them. There is no way Cuaron could have made the movie he made 
> without being thouroughly familiar with HP.

I was thinking the same thing.  Here's the quote I've seen most often:

I was a little surprised at the beginning. I didn't know about Harry Potter. I
knew that there were movies and about the huge success of Harry Potter, but I
had never read the books. But when I read the script, it made me want to do it
and when I read the books I thought, I have to do this movie. Its just the
material, the material is so great. 

http://movieweb.com/news/news.php?id=4032

I also saw him in an interview on Univision (Spanish-language TV network in the
US), just before PoA came out, where he not only stated that he went back and
read all the books after reading the PoA script, but he went on and on about
how complex the books are.  He said that there was so much "stuff" in PoA that
he made the decision early on to keep only what stuck to the theme of growing
up and discovering that the monsters are not under the bed, but inside of you.

Sherry Garfio
(realizing today that there is already another Sherry on the list, who has been
posting a lot lately - sorry if I have caused any confusion for anybody)


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"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
    -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire




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