POA trailer / Movie adaptions of books

[Theresa]

Actually after seeing the trailer in the theaters, I am excited about 
the prospect of seeing the full link film and can hardly wait until 
June 4th. BTW - I didn't see it when we saw Looney Tunes but did with 
LOTR. I asked the gentleman manning the customer service booth at the 
AMC theater I frequent while my sons played with the cool wanted 
poster display why I had heard it was with LT and it was not and he 
said it was at the discretion of the manager of the theater which 
movies to tag it with. He made the same suggestion as another list 
member - to just ask which movies are showing it and did say if I 
just wanted to peek at it and then go to my movie I could - of course 
my movie had ended but I still had my stub. I think most theaters are 
pretty amicable.

As for deviations well, I never think the films are exactly like the 
books. I have just seen the third LOTR and had rewatched the first 
two twice prior to going, though all three were brilliant films, 
there are quite a few deviations from the books. I had just reread 
them as well. However, it was done in such a way that the storyline 
still made sense. As for the Stephen King movies, I agree with Rae 
about Molly - I thought she was a poor choice and I think one of the 
worst adaptations of his was Christine. It was almost comical on 
screen but the book had me looking twice at my car. I know there will 
be deviations from the books for the films with HP but I still have 
faith in the film makers and Steve Kloves that they will be 
enjoyable. I know Steve said in many interviews that he runs any 
deletions from the book past JK to see if it will hurt the storyline 
down the road and I bet she has given many secrets to him. She would 
have to so he would not create some continuity error from film to 
film. Anyway, as long as the films are not so grossly different from 
the books, the acting is good and it is all done in good taste, I 
will be satisfied. I remember all the fuss a few months back about 
Cuaron having the children in regular modern day clothes in many 
scenes and at first I thought whoa wait a minute that isn't 1990's 
clothing. But the films have never stated a year for anything so I 
guess that is alright. Of course that may prove to be a goof in POA 
if they say Harry's folks were killed Oct 31, 1981 or show the date 
on a Daily Prophet paper for when Sirius 'blew up the street'. Oh, 
well I will still hold faith in the film makers and believe they will 
turn out a brilliant film. And if I am wrong you may all throw e-
tomatoes at me. ;o)

Theresa
PS: Hope all of you have a wonderful 2004!