[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Kloves or Cuaron??

[Kathryn Wolber]

--- alina at distantplace.net wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com,
> "daughterofthedust" 
> <daughterofthedust at y...> wrote:
> > Just a question for those who hated the film...
> > Do you blame Stephen Kloves or Alfonso Cuaron?? If
> both, who do 
> you 
> > blame more??
> > 
> 
> 
> I blame JKR for allowing them to do this to her
> work! Surely she 
> could've done something to stop this... or make this
> better. For 
> goodness' sake, couldn't she at least point out to
> Cuaron that 
> wizards don't wear muggle clothes? (although I
> thought she should've 
> pointed that out from the start).
> 
> Alina who likes the movie less and less the more she
> thinks about it.

I don't think you can really blame JKR because she
doesn't have creative control over the movies. When
she gave them the rights she just said that they
couldn't be cartoons and she wanted a British cast. It
seems like the close collaboration with Colombus on
the first 2 movies was more of a courtesy extended by
Columbus than a necessity.  I'd rather have her worry
about finishing book 6 and be less than pleased with
the movies than have her spend alot of time
controlling the movies and have to wait an eternity
for the next book. 
Personally, I blame both Cuaron and Kloves. I think
they both had some really good ideas, but that they
also had a certain disregard for the world setup but
JKR in the books and by ignoring that have allienated
the fans.  I can understand some creative freedom in
the area of inclusion of unnecessary scenes and the
creation of new creatures like dementors, but I think
that if JKR has given a spell or explanation of
something that it should be honored. For example, why
did they have to create Bombardo when Alohamora would
have done the job just fine? And why couldn't the
professors wear robes? Why did the prophecy need to be
changed? It was just unnecessary. So I blame them
both.

~Katie



	
		
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