[HPFGU-Movie] What I would like to see

[patientx3 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/2/2004 9:11:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tmarends at yahoo.com writes:
>>So, what I would like to see... in about 15 years or so, 
is a 7 year TV series, or a complex mini-series (filmed over a 7 year 
period).  Follow the series from beginning to end with the same group 
of actors. <<

The problem with this is that the production values would be too low. It 
wouldn't have to be a mini-series to be better, it wasn't just length that made 
them cut things from the books (obviously if you look at CoS, there are some 
scenes that are left in that seem less important than those left out, and it 
wouldn't have taken more than a minute for Dumbledore to explain that Snape hated 
James Potter), what made the LOTR films so wonderful is that they had a 
directer and writers that LOVED the books. The Harry Potter movies aren't really put 
together that way, its the studio finding a directer and writer and just sort 
of putting them together and handing them the book. 

What *I* hope happens is that 10 or 20 years from now some kid that grew up 
loving the books will go out and made his own versions of the movies, meaning 
the same directer for all 7 films (as exhausting as that would be), and the 
directer having a hand in the screenwriting (as Peter Jackson did for LOTR). At 
this point the movies haven't been a 'labor of love', but more 'let's make some 
MONEY', which isn't *horrible*, considering that's why most movies are made, 
but it would be nice to see a directer who sought out the studio asking to 
make the movies, rather than the other way around. (and its interesting to think 
there might be some 12-year-old out there who will grow up to make beautfiul 
versions of the books).

-Rebecca
PS. By the way, I personally think that in order to make a good film out of a 
good book things HAVE to be changed, that's part of why the first two movies 
seemed sort of awkward in places, they were *too* faithful. I haven't seen PoA 
yet, but the interviews with Cuaron where he talks about changing more than 
Columbus did with the previous two made me more excitied for it. But I'll see 
what I think come Friday...


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