[HPFGU-Movie] Streaking Draco?
artsylynda at aol.com
artsylynda at aol.com
Wed Jul 21 15:08:49 UTC 2004
In a message dated 7/21/2004 9:45:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
Since there are still a lot of parents who would
not want their kids to see someone streaking, which might be quite a bit
different than seeing someone in a bath or shower--implications and all
that--I'd hate to see this happen in the movies and have kids miss out on
the experience of seeing the movie.
Sherry
I think, given the tone of books 4 and beyond, WB is going to have to go for
a PG-13 to R rating to capture the story. These "older" books aren't meant
for little kids. JKR is writing for herself, so she's said. That's one of
the reasons the books have such wide appeal, because she's not writing them
like books for kids -- they have depth and layers of meaning and big, long,
hard words (and concepts and experiences!) that are beyond anything MY kids were
exposed to, and both of them have wonderfully complex vocabularies (they're
both in their 20's now). Maybe those with little kids can watch the "edited
for TV" versions of the later movies. If the movies want to draw a seriously
"deep" (broad age range, good INCOME $$$$$) audience, they will gear the
movies toward the teen and young adult audience, especially since Dan and Emma
have already (at the young age of 14) reached "heart throb" status (according
to the media). WB would be stupid to pass up such an economic opportunity,
and they'd be being true to the books as well, to gear films 4-7 to teens and
adults. That's the target audience of those books. I know adults who read
the HP books to their little kids who have to skip sections they consider too
intense or whatever for their kids. That's wise of them, in their situation.
I hope WB doesn't do the same thing. Bring on the mature HP movies in all
their intensity!!!! Bring those books to filmic life! YEAH!
Oh, and for the person who mentioned transforming to an animal making you
lose your clothes -- that was in PoA and didn't make sense, since Sirius didn't
lose his clothes when he became a dog (when he was a man again, he was fully
clothed). But I can see how they could come up with the idea that Malfoy,
after being turned back into a human, would be nude -- and it would be very
funny! As for Tom being underage, that's what body suits and body doubles are
for. But I suspect Tom is just teasing, anyway. That seems to be his way.
Lynda
". . .the cat's among the pixies now. . ." Mrs. Figg, OoP
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