[HPFGU-Movie] Re: A challenge for people who really liked the movie

[HimemyaUtena at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/5/2004 7:53:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
daughterofthedust at yahoo.com writes:
If you don't understand, it's because you like to have things 
spelled out...Explicitly and to the point of condescension, like 
Columbus' films, where people repeat everything slowly, mutiple 
times, with dramatic pause for extra emphasis...

Those films were geared so that EVERYONE, even the slowest of the 
slow, could comprehend...
I think that the film is perfectly understandable in and of itself. Yes, 
that's true. And I don't think anyone would deny that. But people just seeing the 
film will be missing quite a bit of what i feel is important information from 
the books, and therefor the overall story. There's no telling how this will 
effect future films. The loss of a rather large chunk of the Marauders history 
is regrettable. PoA is, I feel, the Marauders story more than anything else. 
Part of the charm and tragedy of their story is the group of friends they used 
to be, and what they all have become. And that got entirely lost. 

I think if I were watching the movie and hadn't read the films that I would 
question how both Lupin and Sirius knew how the map worked, or that Sirius even 
knew which map was being referred to.

Oh, by the way, I really did like the film. Just missed the background info.

~~Adrianna~~


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